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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Doesn't achieve the Supreme essence ....
The pursuit of the three-fold path leads to the attainment of the state of true form of the self without which the jiva is wandering aimlessly. Without the Dasha (state), disha (direction) cannot be attained. In the Acharanga Sutra - First Shruta Skandha : First Adhyayana, it has been said -
एवमेगेसिं णो णायं भवइ, अस्थि मे आया उववाइए णात्थि मे
आया उववाइए के अह्मसि, के वा झो चुओ इह पेच्चा भविस्सामि। Many jivas do not even know whether they have a rebirth or not, or what their Atma was in its previous birth and after death here what it will become in the next.
We too are in a similar situation. We do not know where we were in the previous birth and what we did there. Did we increase the affected disposition and expand the worldly life or did we go by the natural disposition and limit our worldly life? Not just that, here, after appearing in this life too, in spite of obtaining satsang, satshravan (good hearing), faith and all such yogas, where does this question arise to the jiva? Earlier, when born in unisensory or insect or animal species, there was no scope for this question and hence it was not even raised. But here, after becoming a human and in spite of having heard these matters so often, does the urge to know arise at all? Does the faith arise at all? Does it occur that - 'I should discover who I was, what I was, from where I did arrive and to where I am bound'.
You may say, "What is the need to know all this? What harm will there be if all this is not known? I am living here happily, enjoying the life. I am engrossed in the joy that I have found. There should be no problem even if I do not know!" Brothers! Think with a foresight!
Earlier this Jiva has travelled across one form of life after another, has always wandered. The wheel of life and death is