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

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I am the Soul
405 have been watching all this, came in from the east, raised the tile and removed the loaf and flew away with it. The crow who had hidden the loaf came again, but it was not there.
Brothers! This is an eye-witness account. After having seen it, I felt, “Who could have taught the crow all this? One hides and another steals, these are apparently the influences of the many previous births. Don't you teach your children the same thing? You give more and say, 'Go, pocket it, eat when you have gone out. Don't tell anyone that you were given two chocolates. The other one has been given only one.' At such times the child is happy and you too get elated. But these influences go on settling deeper and deeper in a jiva. They leave an indelible impression on the atma. That is why such influences are visible in all life forms, without anybody teaching or learning them.
We are, of course, familiar with such influences, but now we need to absorb the influences of the faith in atma, the faith in the words of Jina. As such influences are not absorbed with sufficent analysis, it does not take long for our faith to get shaken. The roots of faith do not go deep at all. We merely seem to rest our faith on the customs that have been followed by others. If the faith has come with proper understanding, then it remains steadfast even under extremely unfavourable circumstances.
The disciple, having been convinced of the existence of atma, has done a deep contemplation over it and is telling the Gurudev, 'O Gurudev! I have thought, and am satisfied. Now I am a believer in the existence of atma. My divine vision is awakening with your invaluable words and unlimited benevolence.
So saying, bowing his head at the feet of the Gurudev with gratitude, he says in a choked voice -
छ छ पदोनी मारी अंतर आराधना शाश्वत सिद्धिने पमाय . . . मारी अंतर आराधना