Path of Arhat

SR No.: 001745
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: T U Mehta
Publisher: Sohanlal Smarak Parshwanath Shodhpitha Varanasi
Publication Year: 1993
Total Pages: 262
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Spiritual, Religion, & Principle
File Size: 15 MB

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The Path of Arhat ; A Religious Democracy
doubting your ownself, because, the moment you doubt your ownself, you donot exist. But you do exist because you are doubting. So, the doubter of your doubt is your 'self', your 'soul. Soul exists because l'exists and l'exists because 'doubt' exists."
“Again, it is many a times seen that the attributes such as memory, perception, sensation etc. are absent even when body is present and in a living condition. This proves that these attributes are not of body."
"It is found that body gets consciousness only in association with soul and without soul, it is dead as wood. Hence consciousness is 'soul'."
The dialogue which proceeded further left Indrabhūti Gautam fully convinced about the existence of soul and he became the principal disciple of Mahāvīra.
Chandogya Upanişad contains another famous dialogue on the subject between father Āruņi and his son Svetaketu. 'Aruni' a Brahmin Rși, learned in Vedas, sent his son Svetaketu at the age of twelve years to learn Vedas. The son returned back to father after the completion of his course at the age of 24 years, conceited and thinking himself very learned. So the learned father inquired of the son -
“Svetaketu, my dear, since now you think yourself very learned and proud, did you also ask for that teaching whereby what has not been heard of, becomes thought of, what has not been understood, becomes understood ?”
"How pray Sir, is that teaching'? asked the son.
Just as my dear', the father explained, "by one piece of clay everything made of clay may be known ( the modification is merely a verbal distinction, a name, the reality is just 'clay')
1, a name, the reality is just 'clay').1 Just as, my dear, by one copper ornament everything made of copper may be known ( modification is merely a verbal distinction, a name, the reality is just 'copper' ). Just as, my 1. वाचारं मनं विकार नामधेयम्, मृतिकेति एवं सत्यम् ।