Walk With Me

SR No.: 006594
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Chandanaji Acharya, Vastupal Parikh
Publisher: Veerayatan
Publication Year: 2011
Total Pages: 186
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 12 MB

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Ch. 20: Nirvana - I am alone
Mahavir often tells us that, “We are all mortals, the transients!
Every one of us here is in this form only for a short time. Each of us has
arrived all alone and will have to leave all alone. Our soul is trapped in the endless cycle of birth and death because of our own karma. It is up to us, and us alone, to free ourselves from this bondage.
He says that compassion with selfless love is the path to freedom, but your love must be universal. You cannot just love some and hate others. Universal love and compassion is possible only if you are not passionately attached to one thing or the Compassion with selfless
love is the path to freedom, other. Passions generate desire, hatred,
but your love must be and selfishness, and disturb our universal. You cannot just equanimity. Under the influence of love some and hate others. passions, we tend to love some and hate others, increasing thereby our load of karma.” Mahavir's love for all living beings has transformed the world, and I have been fortunate enough to witness all this closely.
Mahavir's knowledge has no limits. I have asked him hundreds of questions and he has never avoided any. I am his most curious disciple, and his answers to my questions have been so informative that I have come to fully trust in his knowledge and wisdom.
Sevam Bhante! Sevam Bhante! Tahameyam Bhante! (Yes Bhagwant, I trust what ever you say. Bhagwant, your every word is the truth and the only truth)
Once I asked Mahavir, “Bhagwant, I have been your faithful disciple ever since I joined the sangh. I am your very first disciple and have followed, obeyed and loved you faithfully. Yet why is it that so
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