Philosophy of Soul and Matter

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

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If you are born with a beautiful bodily form and make fun of someone who has not received physical beauty, the pain you create in that person's life with words, gestures, jokes, laughter, or disgust is an invitation to vibrations from the universe which bring physical-making karmas.
If you observe yourself and find a physical lack, then you can tell yourself: "Somewhere I have made fun of somebody. At that time I was not aware in a positive sense. Because of ignorance I went on causing pain to somebody. What I have now is the result of a feeling, gesture, vibration which I sent and which became concretized."
You were born to certain parents. Why? It shows some previous vibrations. You have chosen them or they have chosen you. Depending on the previous relationship, it will be a superior or inferior heredity, caused by what are called heredity-determining karmas. If the previous bond was painful, then you have come to cancel or undo the wrong, or you have come to allow the parents to experience and erase their past vibrations.
Most important is to know your dream. That is the clay which you use to compose yourself. It is on the