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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
Salvation Through Knowledge
It is a futile endeavour to try to see what is visible. We should try to visualize what is not visible. That formless reality can be seen with the eyes of knowledge not with the physical eyes. Who opens our mental eyes? Only an ascetic or a scholar can open our mental eyes. We should venerate the preceptor who opens our mental eyes which are blinded by ignorance, with the collyrium-stick of knowledge and gives us sight.
The mental eyes of Jambhu Kumar were opened by the precepts of Sudharma Swami. The eyes of knowledge enabled him to see the futility of even newly married life and helped him to develop love for Jineshwar. This love never fails us and in this kind of love there is no possibility of separation.
Prabhav, a leader of robbers came to commit a robbery but when he heard the discourse of Jambhu Kumar his mental eyes were opened. In consequence, Prabhav received the Jain deeksha (sacred vows). All his five hundred followers followed his example. After
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