Philosophy of Soul and Matter

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

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that in this last stage of your evolution, in your human existence, you are in touch with your reality. You are seeing your eternal nature. You are contacting your self.
When you know this in your experience, not only in a mental or conceptual way, then you will shed all fears and anxieties. Like the person who moves from house to house according to the season, you will know that wherever you are, in a different country, climate, planet, abode, situation, or birth, you have not “gone" anywhere; you only make a change of house, a change of form.:
Now what you call “I” is merely a name. As a “he” or a “she,” “I” is a form. As an angry or a happy "I," it is an emotional "I.” When you say: “I am going to do as I did yesterday," that “I" belongs to a time period. None of these "I's” is you. They are hundreds of names reflecting in hundreds of broken mirrors, the mirrors of moods and labelsrich, poor, angry, depressed, happy, sad, high, low. “I” mirrors are not your real qualities; they are conditions. Pleasures and pains, ups and downs are transient; they come and go..
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