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 60

Body is but a coincidence ...
The devoted pursuit of the three gems can be done only by an eligible jiva. In the material world, if nothing is achievable without eligibility, then in the spiritual world, the chances of achieving something without it are none.
A tremendous effort is necessary to achieve eligibility. One who does not make an effort, cannot get the spiritual accomplishment. Yes, in the material world, one may get a lot owing to earlier efforts in the form of punya. If a child born in the household of a millionaire gets sweets and fruits to eat without doing anything, it is by virtue of his earlier punya. But spiritual accomplishment is not the result of punya. In this field the earlier punya only gets you eligibility, makes the circumstances conducive for devoted practice, but after attaining these, the jiva has to make a tremendous effort until the twelfth gunasthana is reached. Therefore, in the spiritual field if the jiva lies dormant it can get nowhere. A Sanskrit verse says -
उद्यमेन हि सिद्धयन्ति कार्याणि न मनोरथैः ।
न हि सुप्तस्य सिंहस्य प्रविशन्ति मुखे मृगाः ॥
Every work is accomplished with a tremendous effort. Merely by building castles in the air, no work can get accomplished. If the King of animals - Lion is sleeping, no animal is going to enter its mouth by itself. That is to say, even the Lion has to make an effort to fill its stomach. Work is successful only with effort. Greater the task, equally great has to be the effort. Kabir has said -
for CTA FA uigui, rito... Whoever discovered the truth, has delved deep into it, i.e. they could attain the atma only after going deep into it and after a research. Brothers! One doesn't get anything by fishing in shallow waters, but shells and conches. Man must know that, to