I am The Soul Part 02

SR No.: 006791
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Tarulatabai Mahasati
Publisher: Shri Gujarati Shwetambar Sthanakwasi Jain Association
Total Pages: 466
Language: English, Hindi
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 18 MB

Page 53

... up on thinking over!
The jiva who devotedly pursues the three gems, attains the atma. A jiva, which has attained everything else, does not stabilise until it attains the atma. Attaining everything else leads to momentum, while attaining the atma leads to stability.
Atmasiddhi Shastra shows ways of attaining the atma after accepting it. The curious disciple places the doubts about the existence of atma before the Gurudev who, with logical arguments andproofs, proves that it does. Satisfied with the clarification, the disciple's heart is filled with joy. He thinks deeply about the atma. What happens as a result of this thinking is related here in the words of the disciple -
आत्माना अस्तित्वना, आपे कह्या प्रकार; Hva datorre, sia per farena .....48
O Gurudev! You have proved the existence of atma in so many ways. After you told me, I have thought upon all these arguments in great depth. I have thought a lot. I have thought again and again. And at the end I felt that it is exactly as you say.
Brothers! The all-knowing, omniscient Supreme Soul - Parmatma also tells us that whatever principle we hear or read should be thought over very deeply. It is good that you are interested in listening to the principles and that you like them. But later, only when you do a lot of thinking about them can they be reduced to faith. This is a very important matter that, that principle alone which has been thought over deeply, on which there has been a lot of contemplation, can get established as a faith in the atma and continue to remain there. As and how the contemplation happens, the atma begins to get influenced, and as the influence gets stronger, it establishes forever as a faith in the atma. The other reason why this happens is when there is