Philosophy of Soul and Matter

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

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matter. You realize that what you used to call “death” is merely a changing of the forms, but that sentient energy is changeless, immortal.
You realize that a change in form is inevitable and you welcome it when it comes, for it is change which keeps life healthy and fresh. You experience yourself as water, ever-flowing in order not to become stagnant, yet eternally living in its own element. So let yourself flow and no fear will come. Flowing, you will expand. Fear is contraction. If you are constantly flowing and expanding, you cannot be contracting and shrinking in fear. :
When you have experienced and deeply understood the conscious, blissful, and immortal qualities of you-sentient energy, then each change, in form or perception, will take you to a higher level of consciousness and you will meditate in a state of fearlessness.
Now let ús experience our self, feeling that “in the center of this form, which I have created there is I; not body, not he or she, not emotion or thought, not past inemory or future planning, not transitory pleastfe or pain, not the -vibrations of attraction or repulsion, but the real I-consciousness, blissfulness, immortality.”