Philosophy of Soul and Matter

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

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by you from within you. This is a universe in which every thought is registered, and what is in the. storehouse will come. So if you have lost your job or have contracted an illness, often it is because you have gone down in your thinking process.
We tend to see the results rather than the cause.. We need merely to see that there is a connection between “me” and what happens. We must experience our inborn potentiality to make and create. What we are now calling ourselves-man or woman, short or tall, black or white, educated or ignorant, is nothing but our “make-up.” We have made ourselves in that way. We cannot blame God that some are rich and others poor. We can only say this: There is a process of life. In this process, every soul, in one way or another, in a vibration of attraction or repulsion,
during his night of ignorance or under the light of knowledge, · makes his life form in that way. .
With the recognition and acceptance of the fact . that no outside element or person can be blamed for our present conditions, we realize that we cannot shirk responsibility, for what we are. Our actions, life style, physical appearance, circumstances—these are concretizations of our own thoughts. Then we begin to become a gatekeeper to our mind, not
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