Mysteries of Life and Eternal Bliss

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

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ctly when it can reach Calcutta. This is rational future telling relative to the past events. When anyone takes birth at a particular place and time his future becomes practically fixed. Any one, who might have developed such powers, may predict the past as well as the future of any body. The science of Astrology, with the experiences of thousands of years, is a positive science, By meditation and concentration in the self mighty powers are daveloped. Clairvoyance, Omniscience and seeing the future and the past are then not atall impossible. As a matter of fact the term "present” is nothing because every second or moment becomes a "past” the next moment. So we have only past or future and, if at all, a momentary present. Predicting past, present and future can be posible by developed faculties,"
Mighty powers are developed by concentration in the Self. If an ascetic cures deseases by simply seeing any one there is no wonder in it. But real ascetics are rare and people get cheated by fake ones and then lose faith in such things. Tirthankaras and Jain ascetics are very much in the habit and practice of Self-meditation and so develop