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are unable to communicate in the universal language. Some of us are not even aware that a soul exists within us. There are those who do not accept that there is this universal language, or that we can be one with nature by developing our sensitivity. But don't you find that sometimes animals try to communicate with us? Unfortunately we are numb to their language, and arrogantly believe that they are dumb.
Numbness of our soul is due to our passions (kashayas). Unless we are able to control and eliminate them, we cannot reach our conscience. If we do not understand our own soul, how can we understand and
communicate with another? The Our consciousness has been clogged with desensitizing more we understand our soul, the karma. As a result, our soul
stronger our ability to understand has lost its sensitivity and we are unable to communicate in
every soul in the universe. Our the universal language.
lives, our culture, and our traditions have so entrapped our mind that it, too, refuses to get in touch with our real Self. Ajja, what you saw in that forest was not magic. Mahavir and the cobra really did understand each other. Thanks to Bhagwan Mahavir's revolutionary discovery, this communication technique is now understood. We too can communicate with every living being if we purify our soul by eliminating our kashayas."
"But the poison, the poison! How was Mahavir able to neutralize the poison? It must be magic!" The old man was unwilling to give up.
“That too was not magic." I replied. Our soul meekly suffers bodily pain because our kashayas make it a virtual prisoner of our body. If we eliminate our kashayas, the soul becomes free, regains its unlimited
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