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
127 categories would you like to be in? Everybody wants the topmost category. Why so? Having heard so much about Arihant you begin to feel that it would be good to find a place in the category of Arihant. You get to be in the top most then. But Brothers! This chair is not so easy to get. Here you have to progress step-by-step. You have to first enter at the fifth position, then work your way up through the fourth and third to the first, lastly it is the category of the Siddhas. So, thus one has to awaken the substance of the supreme soul lying dormant within. That can be achieved only through the propitiation of the Arihant. So Jina offers such a status.
Thirdly it is tranu (TTT) - strength in refuge. It offers refuge. Arihant is said to be a giver of refuge. Who can offer refuge? One who is almighty, who has love for refugees, who can completely protect them. Arihant - the Supreme Soul is enriched with infinite virtues. Indeed, the infinite knowledge of the Arihant goes right across the past and future of the refugee and gets to know all his feelings. As such he knows the malady of as also the remedy for the jiva. That is why we mention in our prayer every day - 31 FUT Tquullfh ....- I seek refuge with Arihant.
Not even the strongest of the strong persons in this world has the strength to match Arihant, to offer refuge and alleviate the sufferings of the jiva smouldering in the worldly flames. So it is! Arihant - the supreme soul alone has the capability.
The strengths of the jiva wandering from infinite time have been encrusted in thick layers of karma, which keep the jiva from realising the strength of the self. But Arihant - the supreme soul, is - 3112URA HOT - free from all coverings. He broke the crust upon knowledge to become a kevaljnani - omniscient, he broke the crust upon faith to become endowed with infinite faith. He burnt down desire and earned the kshayik samakit and kshayik yathakhyat character. He destroyed all hurdles to attain the infinite strength - energy. Thus he became liberated by removing the crusts that hid the valuable virtues of the atma.