Philosophy of Soul and Matter

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

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you will realize that sentient energy gives the touch of life to form. If it can give life, then it cannot be 'captured by form. If it could be captured by form, then it could not be formless. The formless remains above the forms. That is why it can give life to them.
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There is a beautiful story in the Upanishads in which a son came home to his father after twelve years of study telling him: "O Father, I have studied all the scriptures and experimented in all but still I did not find soul." His father then asked him to break open the fruit of the banyan tree and show him where the tree could be found in the thousands of seeds living inside the fruit.
The son answered: "O Father, that which gives birth to the tree cannot be seen."
"Yes," said his father, "And the power which gives life to you cannot be measured by any instrument. Atma, soul is beyond. That which gives life to all the forms is intangible. Yet it gives force to the tangible world. It animates all the seen forms. That energy is you. That energy is me."
When you realize this, you will discover the
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