Gandhis Teachers Rajchandra Ravjibhai Mehta

SR No.: 006754
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Satish Sharma
Publisher: Gujarat Vidyapith Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 2005
Total Pages: 260
Language: English
Classification: Book_English & Rajchandra
File Size: 11 MB

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Gandhi and Rajchandra : Question and Answers
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whether he would attain moksha or not?
A. Just as a man whose hands have been tightly bound with a rope, on being slowly and slowly loosened feels a great relaxation from the bondage and begins to perceive as if the rope has ceased to exist or exert an influence. Similarly soul, which is bound with various kinds of nescient emotions, on being slowly and slowly released from them begins to feel the glory of salvation. The more and more the streaks of these emotions fade away, the more and more the soul shines in its luster untarnished by ignorance. As soon as there is complete extinction of these nescient forces, soul, even though it may be delineated by body, blooms out in its full splendor with a consciousness of freedom all-around. Thus soul, though residing in body, enjoys the blessings of salvation.
Q. 5 It is said in scriptures that a man after death goes to animal, mineral, and vegetable lives according to his actions. Do you think it to be right?
A. When a soul after death leaves one body to occupy the other, it moves according to the accumulated karmas. In that state, sometimes it takes animal form and sometimes mineral form. In mineral state, soul experiences the fruits of karmas with the help of touch sense, leaving other four senses. It does not mean that in mineral state soul becomes earth or stone, rather in this state soul assumes a physical shape akin to stone and itself resides there in an invisible form. Since in this state soul does not possess other senses besides the touch sense, it is called prithvi-kaya-jiva28 and it is eka-indriya.29 By and by after experiencing the fruits of karmas when it leaves that form to assume other forms of life, then its earthly body made of stone is merely a heap of particles devoid of life. After the departure of the soul, it does not evince instincts of hunger, sex, fear, and accumulation. Please mind that a soul in mineral state is not absolutely mineral, it has got a living aspect also. It is all due to its own nescient tendencies that a soul by the fruitification process has to assume an order of life which is one-sensed in consciousness and stonish in physical appearance. It is not merely a stone or boulder of earth. A soul