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REALIZE WHAT YOU ARE:
properly born Onlywhen you make the real breakthrough, see and relate to the universe with the extra sense, can you feel and experience real life.
There is a word in Jain philosophy for this sense: pragna. In other schools, it is called the third eye or higher consciousness. There are many different words for that special awareness, pragna. With pragna you break through ignorance, your perception is different. Things dawn on you. Everything you see becomes a means to joy, because your inner mechanism has changed gear-turning all it sees into joy. That is the art. The artist who paints a still life and transmits a living quality onto his or her canvas has this inner sense of perception. This is really ESP. It is not just reading someone's mind, or having a premonition about who is coming to see you. All these are ephemeral phenomena, merely telepathic, child's play, and happen when the mind is becoming clear. You are waiting for some mail, and the next day the mailman delivers the mail you were thinking about. Your mind wanders to a person you have not seen for a month, and you go out on the street and bump into that person. You daydream and a certain face comes into your head and after a week that same face is introduced to you for the first time. All these things do happen. But these are just indicators of a strength and potential we all have within us. We have to go further, to develop this inner power so that everything in life hums with happiness, peace and serenity.
Then the essence in you will welcome any challenge. You will think: "Here I am, let anything come. I have the art of heart to transform all things and bring balance." Take this challenge now, from today, and work on it. Say to
