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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THE WAY OF LIFE
Avasthachintan has been excluded from the worship of the Lord. This is absolutely wrong because Avasthachintan is a very important emotional and devotional activity. After performing Angapooja and Agrapooja with various auspicious things, if you stand or sit before the image of the Paramatma, contemplating with concentration on the three states of the Paramatma, you experience an ineffable felicity. The three states of the Paramatma are:
(1) The disguised state (Chadmasta Avastha), (2) The enlightened state (The Kaivalya Avastha), and (3) The formless state (Roopathitha Avastha).
The Chadmasthavastha or the disguised state extends from birth to the time of the attainment of Kevaljnan or the supreme enlightenment. The Chadmasta Avashtha or the disguised state has three subsidiary states in it.
(1) Balyavastha, the state of childhood,
(2) Rajyavastha, the princely state, and (3) Shramanavastha, the state of mendicancy.
The contemplation on the Lord's childhood (Balyavastha) has to be carried out in front of the idol of the Lord. There is a great difference between your childhood and the Lord's childhood. Do you know that even when the Lord was in the womb of his mother, he had three kinds of knowledge. Even the embryo had Mathijnan (intellectual knowledge) Shrutajnan (scriptural knowledge) and Avadhijnan (extra-sensory perception), even when he was in his mother's womb. In other words, he was born with these three kinds of knowledge. His childhood was one of pure knowledge and perfect vision. Even in his boyhood, he was not ignorant. He was a boy with respect to the body but is soul possessed Avadhijnan (extra-sensory perception). What is the meaning of Avadhijnan? At least, do you know this?
From the Audience: We know nothing of these things relating to Dharma.