Way of Life Part 4

SR No.: 006516
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Bhadraguptasuri
Publisher: Vishvakalyan Prakashan Trust Mehsana
Publication Year: 1986
Total Pages: 430
Language: English
Classification: Book_English & Religion
File Size: 17 MB

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every day you must spend about ten minutes contemplating on your soul, “Who am I ?" and "What is mine ?" You must put these question to your soul. After that, you must ask your soul two other questions, “Whence have I come ?” Whither am I going ?”
Begin your spiritual contemplations with these questions.
From the Audience : We do not know the answers to these questions.
Maharajashri : If you know the answers to the questions, where is any need for you to ask them. You do not know the answers, so you put questions. Keep questioning your soul every day and you will get an answer from within. You may get answers from external agencies but they will not be convincing as those obtained from within.
From the Audience: Kindly explain to us the method of contemplating on the soul.
THE METHOD OF CONTEMPLATING ON THE SOUL
Maharajashri : All right. I will explain the method to you. For carrying out spiritual contemplation choose a time when you will be in solitude. Sit calmly and think. “Who am I? Actually, who am I? What I seem to be physically, I am not. I am not that individual whom people call by my name. I am indeed a pure soul. My real form is pure. All impurities result from karmas. On account of ignorance, I have been wrongly thinking that what has resulted from my karmas is mine. My house, my shop, my friends, my relatives, my wealth, my bodyall these things have resulted from my karmas. I am not even this body which I think is mine. I am a pure soul which embodies perfect and ineffable bliss”.
"What is mine ?” This is the second question. “Any object that I perceive and experience with my senses is not mine. On account of my ignorance, I have been considering such objects as belonging to me. What is really mine can never be different