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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
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That truth is the spiritual welfare of all; and we should seek it.
The quest for truth is the name given to the search for those doctrines, principles and values that help us to achieve our own spiritual welfare and the spiritual welfare of all.
Now, the question is; how should we search for truth? Who should carry out this task?
अप्पणा सच्चमेसेज्जा ।
(37TTEZ47 6/2)
(We ourselves should search for truth)
The writers of scriptures have written about their experiences. We should compare our experiences with their experiences and test them. For this we should make our intellects reflective; our minds contemplative and associate our intelligence with spiritual enlightenment, and then our faculty of thinking flames forth; the soul realizes itself and visualizes its identity and thus we can attain everlasting felicity.
I have been trying to disseminate the knowledge I have attained by studying the shastras at the feet of my Gurudev (Preceptor). This collection is the fruit of one such endeavour. How is it? I leave it to the judgment of the readers.
Your well-wisher PADMASAGAR
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