Philosophy of Soul and Matter

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

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feeling. Naturally you allow yourself to transcend the awareness of bodily boundaries and to create expansive space all around you. You drop the walls, barriers, forms and feel yourself merging with all life. You feel the living connection between you and all living beings.
In your awareness, the clutter is cleared away. No thing remains to fight for; there is no tug of war between opposing viewpoints. You merge and blend with all in infinite space. This is the experience which the philosophy is leading you to-to feel oneness. This is the experience of individuality-as indivisible and indestructible, merged in the bliss of having opened your space to universal space, of having opened your life to the life in all.
When you go on this transcendent level, you are not measuring or noticing time, and you are not feeling the bounds of body. The function and power of these two are no longer controlling you. Just as to the sun, there is no such thing as darkness, so to you, living in your pure nature, there is no limitation of any kind. You are experiencing your immortal essence. Only on the worldly existence level, relative to the process of composition and decomposition of molecules, does time exist as a sequence. Time is