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
117 worthy or noble). Both forms of tapas (asceticism), internal and external, are practised by him, with ever-increasing severity. Meditation on the nature of the soul and on the transitoriness of the world, its temptations and vanities, constantly oceupies bis mind.
All this is tough, uphill work, but, as I said before, you cannot achieve success anywhere in life unless the means employed are commensurate with the end to be achieved. In reality, Right Conduct only consists in self-realisation, i. e., the contemplation of one's own greatness and glory, which seems easy enough to do; but just sit down to see if you can do it at present even for the brief space of a second. All your cravings, desires, appetites, tendencies, habits of thought, bodily longings and mental propensities will rise in revolt against you the moment you think of settling down to attend to your inner self. Each and every one of these insurgents is a powerful foe and has to be destroyed before you can hope to be left to yourself. Mercy is not meant for these foes of Life; they are unrelent. ing themselves and will fight to their last gasp.
Does the prospect of so much hard, uphill work frighten you? There is nothing that man cannot accomplish, if he once girds up his loios for it. And even if one is not successful all at once there is no fear of the fruit of one's labour being destroyed by death. The merit acquired by Faith and Conduct is carried from one incarnation to another in the shape of auspicious