Philosophy of Soul and Matter

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

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Until we get the experience of "I am immortal,” we will not grasp the meaning of the unconditioned state of soul. The nature of soil is to live in freedom. In partnership with insentient, soul or sentient energy can experience this freedom in different degrees depending on its stage of growth and the depth of the meditative experience.
In meditation, we experience ourselves as a mirror of the divine, or the divine as a larger self of our self. We come to realize that creation is not a person but a process, a process over which we have control.
What is this process: According to the state of consciousness of our soul, our sentient energy will be either in a state of attraction or repulsion, or it will have transcended both poles. In its own natural state, sentient energy has risen above these two and 110 longer sends out negative or positive vibrations. Its vibrations are what may be described as pure, unpolluted, formless and indestructible. When they are expressed by a pure soul, they are experienced as pure love and bliss. A liuman being who has not yet reached that state of realization will be at a certain level of attraction and repulsion. According to that level, he vibrates. According to those vibrations, thoughts are produced. These thoughts then take on
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