I am The Soul Part 01

SR No.: 006790
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Tarulatabai Mahasati
Publisher: Shri Gujarati Shwetambar Sthanakwasi Jain Association
Total Pages: 468
Language: English, Hindi
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 19 MB

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I am the Soul
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bent on painting the whole world red. It weaves fantasies around things which it is never likely to get. Thus there is no limit to the feeling of attachment that lies within us.
Limiting this attachment within, withdrawing it from objects or persons in whom it rests and subduing it is Vairagya. If the attachment remains, then the feeling of dejection over certain objects is not Vairagya, only a sense of helplessness. You would have noted from the experiences in life, how after ageing there is a marked difference between the way you indulge in sensual pleasures now and the way you did when you were younger. As you grow older, you begin to get the feeling - 'why all this?' - towards the senses.
“Enough! Enough of this eating, drinking, dressing and draping, seeing, hearing, believing; there is no desire left now.' Don't you come across such repulsion?
This dampening of desires that overcomes you after indulgence, after having experienced enough, is not accompanied by a conscious effort to abandon the feeling of attachment within. It is merely a feeling of dejection that has arisen over the nonfulfilment of present desires. Sociology too has a part to play in this. The accepted norms of a society, which are firmly rooted in us, induce us to think that this behaviour may not suit our age. Sometimes it so happens that your children are grown up, married and celebrating their youth; don't you have to put down your urge to do the same? Don't you think that this does not suit you now? That is how the passions die down. This is not true detachment, not true Vairagya. The attachment within has not dissolved.
What we are attempting to understand here is that the aversion that arises out of an intention of relinquishing the attachment within is Vairagya. It is natural. It does not come out of a goading by anybody. We might pester somebdoy with a do this, don't do this' or 'this is okay, this doesn't suit you', but that