Philosophy of Soul and Matter

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

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To keep up with life they have to take stimulants or else they feel helpless and exhausted. Each of us must go deep and see if these tendencies are in us. If you are not receiving those vibrant vibrations which you need, realise that it is time to make a change in your life.
How to make a change in your life: First, by seeing the connection between what happens in the universe to you and your own contributing part. Secondly, by putting an end to hating and blaming, and by accepting responsibility for your own actions. Thirdly, by realizing that there is no sin. What you see are consequences, results of past actions. Clinging to the past, you are nesting in it, becoming defeated by it. Do not let the present go by without seeing it as a living present. Take your life into your own hands and experience its infinitely creative possibilities.
The first step then is to see how the universe works. It has its law. It works precisely. There is no mistake. Like the sun whose rise and fall is exact, like the ocean ever in ebb and flow, like the season's movement, the universe is accurate. What appears to us as accidental has some cause behind it. :
What we have to understand is that for countless