Philosophy of Soul and Matter

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

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But there is no past which determines our future. In the living present lies our challenge, our work, our hope for spiritual growth. There are ties which are already formed with our own past vibrations, these we can work with--fulfilling them, undoing them, bringing them to completion. . .
In what way is the present living? How is it. that we can say that everything is possible in the present? Because .karmas built by living life have the capacity to be evaporated or transmuted by living vibrations. You can use positive living vibrations to extinguish the smoldering embers of old negative ones. You can transform your present by transmuting your past.
This we must experience in our meditation. It is not an intellectual experience. When you go to that which you cannot explain, it is the point at which philosophy begins.
Vibrations must be experienced, not explained. For example, as soon as a mother conceives, she starts feeling love. Parents are ready to part with their whole fortune for a stranger, a child! Seeing someone, you are ready to die for that person. Meeting someone in an airport, you become in a
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