Guidelines to Mahavir Darshan

SR No.: 006758
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Satshrutseva Sadhna Kendra
Publisher: Satshrut Seva Sadhna Kendra
Publication Year: 1970
Total Pages: 70
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 4 MB

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GUIDELINES TO MAHAVIR-DARSHAN
therefore, proper for him to be thankful to them for the same rather than get angry. When various sorrows of mind, speech and body befall man, it is proper for him to ponder thus “My previous Karmas have come to bear fruits. These men or animals who inflict sorrows on me are only instrumental. I therefore keep up my forgiveness and do not get angry with anybody.”
Again, when somebody charges us as low, ignorant or pretentious, we do not become that, but we become what we think and feel. Having known this doctrine of truth, it is beneficient to all of us to keep up our nature of forgiveness, even if we have to make great efforts for the same. Conclusions :
Enlightened meditation is quickly attained to on our path of liberation by resorting to this virtue of forgiveness. Evidently we experience inner bliss. An all-round atmosphere of peace is created because internal mental sorrows as well as external conflicts, quarrels, abuses etc. no longer exist now.
Thus, with the subsidence of anger and jealousy, an atmosphere of friendship and unity is created everywhere in the society. As new bondage of Karma does not arise in case of the individual sadhaka and as former Karmas fall off, the soul becomes increasingly purified and a great state of sadhana emerges.
May this Dharma of forgiveness that leads to the bliss of our self and of others, reign ever victorious in our life. Greatness or Glory of Forgiveness :
(1) Forgiveness is the sublime opening to liberation. (2) Where there is compassion, there is Dharma; where there is
greed, there is sin; where there is anger, there is death;
where there is forgiveness, there is right spiritualism. (3) The Sadhaka should give up anger on realising that it is
unholy, perverse of the real nature of the Soul, and it leads
to sorrow. (4) Uphold for ever in your heart, forgiveness that leads to peace
in this life as well as instrumental in bringing highest and best state in the life hereafter.