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
In the same way, the aforesaid aversion or disenchantment that arises after being tired of indulging in sensual pleasures, if it is accompanied by a proper understanding, then it naturally evolves into renunciation.
Remember, we are not referrring to the disenchantment that comes with the advancing age. It is not as if advancing age is followed by disenchantment. However old they may be, yet people keep thinking that time is still ripe for indulgence. Enjoy! Whenever I raise the topic of relinquishment or detachment amidst my brothers and sisters in their thirties and forties, they say, "Oh Mahasatiji! These are our years of enjoyment. Let us pamper our senses to the hilt”. When I ask, “Pray when do you stop?” they say, “After sixty. Tell us then about relinquishing”.
But Brothers! That is an age when you cannot enjoy. You face so many restrictions. The body and the senses tend to fail you. Social regulations come in your way. Only when you see your grown up sons, daughters-in-law, daughters does it strike you that it is past your time. What if your clock stops ticking midway? What am I going to tell you then? The sages themselves have told us when not to indulge and when to resort to religiondharma -
जरा जाव न पीडेइ, वाही जाव न वड्ढइ ।
जाविन्दिया न हायन्ति, ताव धम्मं समायरे ।। The reason why all this is necessary is -
वैराग्यादि सफळ तो, जो सह आतमज्ञान, Successful relinquishment is achievable when it is accompanied by atamjnana, the knowledge of self. But how is this atamjnana achieved?
जडथी उदासी तेने आत्मवृत्ति थाय छे
The disenchantment with the inanimate, material things in turn invokes the interest in the Self. “The inanimate things cannot