Way of Life Part 1

SR No.: 006513
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Bhadraguptasuri
Publisher: Vishvakalyan Prakashan Trust Mehsana
Publication Year: 1986
Total Pages: 432
Language: English
Classification: Book_English & Religion
File Size: 22 MB

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DISCOURSE 6
that he should have eradicated and rooted out from himself all attachments and hatred. Moreover, he must have great compassion for all the jivas in the world.
Only he, in whom these three virtues: Compassion, Omniscience and Vitaragata (victory over attachments and hatred) have developed to the fullest extent, can found and expound a pure and true Dharma. His words will be indisputable. Jin is the name given to such a soul. Shraman Bhagwan Mahavir was one such Jin. Therefore, his exposition is indisputable. Those who possess pure, incisive and lofty intellects find the doctrine of Mahavir to be true and indisputable.
HOW CAN ONE BECOME A JIN?
The Supreme Soul, Mahavir became a Jin. Jin means victor or conqueror. Lord Mahavir became a victor. He fought a tremendous war against all the inner enemies like attachment, hatred, infatuation and ignorance, which had been existing in his soul for countless ages, pitching their tents in the field of his soul; and he routed them completely and dispelled them from his soul. He liberated his soul from the sway of those enemies and became a victor, and achieved spiritual independence. If you read the story of his heroic war against those enemies and of his becoming a supreme hero, you will understand fully how Mahavir became a Jin. But one cannot become a Jin reeling off high sounding discourses or by dancing and leaping while delivering a speech.
OMNISCIENCE ESSENTIAL FOR THE EXPOSITION OF DHARMA
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The utterances of a man, who has not completely uprooted and cast away his attachments, hatred and ignorance, cannot be indisputable. Such a man's utterances go counter to the path of salvation, and to spiritual welfare, and are not only inconsistent but also self-contradictory. Yes, if one is not omniscient; and if one is not a Vitarag (a victor over the inner enemies); then even if his preaching is inspired by compassion, even if he can speak on renunciation and self-sacrifice, even if