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38 / Lord Mahavira
Swami Vivekananda says in his lecture on the Atman-“No books, no scriptures, no Science can ever imagine the glory of the self that appears as man, the most glorious God that ever was, the only God that ever existed, exists or will ever exist."
Man's incessant effort to apprehend the enigma of the final goal salvation (Moksha) has tempted him to explore new vistas.
All our Indian systems agree that the summum bonum of life is attained when all our impurities are removed from the soul. The real self is beautiful, blissful, eternal and immortal. No knowledge is greater than the knowledge of Self. No bliss in deeper than the bliss of inner self. This is the foundation of all moral and spiritual life.
Lord Mahavira says—“Victory over one's self is greater than conquering thousands and thousands of enemies on a battle field. A true conqueror is one who conquers himself.
Indian wisdom emphasizes the uniqueness of knowledge relating to the atman. This spiritual knowledge helps man to swim across the ocean of birth and death and leads him to gain immortality.
Kundakunda says-“The self effects the transformation of its consciousness and is directly responsible for the transformation; it is not the agent of all those conditions that constitute the material substance and their transformations."
