Confluence of Opposites

SR No.: 006704
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: Champat Rai Jain
Publication Year: 1921
Total Pages: 422
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 15 MB

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CONFLUENCE OF OPPOSITES
Taken singly, Right Faith only opens the outlook of life to embrace the highest good, Right Knowledge is merely the diagram of the action to be performed, while Right Conduct is simply inconceivable in the absence of faith and knowledge of the right sort.
As already stated, this straight, rigid, narrow 'path' consists in the total eradication of desire, so that the harmful forces that are engendered by and through it may be completely destroyed, leaving the soul in its natural state as pure effulgence of Intelligence, all-knowing, ever-blissful and altogether divine in every way.
III
Any one who will reflect on the nature of the gulf that separates this supreme ideal of divine perfection from the low wretched type of sinfulhumanity that is to attain it will readily agree with me that nothing but the severest form of asceticism can ever succeed in cutting. down the huge embankments of desire to fill up the chasm. To become a God. an all-knowing, ever blissful God, is not a joke. A renunciation so complete as to exclude in its last stages everything of personal requirement, even that very last vestige of raiment the langotimust be practised, if spiritual wholeness is to be attained. But the commencement is not so forbidding. There is a ladder of gradually progressive steps which enables the top to be reached by degrees, and with case and everincreasing enthusiasm.
The first step to be taken is the acquisition of Right Faith which means unshakeable belief in the tattvas