Mysteries of Life and Eternal Bliss

Author(s): Anantprasad Jain
Publisher: Tirthakar Mahavir Smruti Kendra Samiti Lakhnou UP

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present capacities and activities, in a particular body, are limited by the capacity and characteristics of that body itself. So when a superficial or virtual visionary body is superimposed upon an actual body the characteristics of that body, too, become effective in lesser or greater degree. But this can happen only where there is life, activity and consciousness, already existing, in a body. No action can take place in a lifeless or consciousless body. When any one person, specially the female sex of weak mind, begins to think of a vision and if there is no object upon which it can be impinged, the vision forms a virtual body or shape and gets superimposed upon the person of the woman herself as an object and begins to react resulting in singing, dancing and making exceptional noise or disturbing the concentration of the mind. By abnoxious and strong smell, smelling salts and fumes etc. the effects of such virtual and visionary bodies are removed from its super impostition on the actual or visionary body. Mind is the root cause but not the activising cause of actions. So primary cause is the mind which creates the impression or visionary body and then the secondary or instrumental cause is that body