Philosophy of Soul and Matter

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

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in your experience. You will realize that "I am consciousness, I am blissfulness, I am immortality.”.
You will see that wherever and whenever you experience any amount of consciousness, that is you, and that wherever and whenever you do not experience consciousness, that is not you. You will no longer identify your self with insentient temporary moments, conditions, situations, names, labels, and roles. You will disengage your mind from being lured by forms which keep it fluctuating and seesawing between the poles of happiness and unhappiness, pleasure and pain, and therefore never satisfied. Instead, you will discover that blissfulness which is your real quality.
Blissfulness brings you to the center of yourself and a gentle smile lights up your face. It is not laughter or tears; it is not excitement or sadness. It is a very fine state. It is balance.
Once you have experienced yourself as consciousness and bliss, the third awareness dawns: that this consciousness which went through so many stages and which is still developing is not going to be destroyed. Birth and death are seen for what they are: the composition and decomposition of insentient
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