Philosophy of Soul and Matter

Author(s): Chitrabhanu, Clare Rosenfield
Publisher: Jain Meditation International Center

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becomes deluded by words and how it fools itself by presuming, “I am getting an insight into something higher.” But instead of gaining insight, it is creating categories. Mind likes to give labels to those who do not agree or believe. It uses names such as 'atheist' or ‘pagan' because of its habitual tendency to react and create a form. Mind, which clings to formis, looks upon anyone who goes out of the form or the norm as its foe.
This is how religious people who claim to love harmony bring instead disharmony. This is why wars are still fought in the name of God or land or ideology. Always the world of forins creates some kind of friction; one sees there the collision of minds... .
Even the psychic experience is a creation of mind. Though it may be called a spiritual experience and though it may appear in a subtle form, still it is an interplay of matter. It is in the kingdom of mind. Mind is still governing, operating, and controlling.
When mind-words, logic, scriptures, arguments, forms—is allowed to rule your life, you do not set yourself free to see and feel the beauty and serenity of that which is beyond mind. The real beauty starts when you begin to get in touch with that. The genuine seeker's journey begins here. '.