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GURUDEVA SMRITI GRANTHA
human race has not been able to acquire full knowledge It may be that the soul imprisoned in the body does not know its true goal or the correct method to reach that goal. Nevertheless its quest for more and more knowledge shows that it is one of this inherent properties
You lock a man or even a child in a room, he will resent it and will like to come out You chain a dog, it will try to break away from the chain and free itself. A dead dog or a dead man would not mind any restriction Thus every living being wants freedom What has man not done to gain that freedom, be that the individual freedom or the social or the political freedom Man has even asserted "Freedom is my birth right" and has sacrificed his all to preserve or to gain that freedom. Even now, throughout the world, nations are struggling to gain political and social freedom, freedom from despots and dictators Men have formed Governments, e. given up part of their freedom for the common good, but there also the principle is 'that Government is best which governs least' This shows that freedom is also a property of soul and it is struggling to regain it It may be that man does not know the full implications of that freedom or the real means to attain it, but his very urge for freedom shows that it is soul's inherent property.
Every man and for that matter of fact, every living being wants happiness and peace We can understand this better in thes case of human beings All actions of a man are guided by this sole motive No man acts with a view to get misery. Man's aim is always to get happiness Whether a man acts as a saint or a scoundrel his aim is to gain happiness Is it not peculiar that men act in contrary ways for the same aim? The reason is that they are not clear in their minds what constitutes happiness and what are the correct means to get it Nevertheless it shows that happiness is a property of the soul and all living being aspire to get it
No living being wants to die Even birds and insects have instincts to save themselves from harm and death., Man has always been trying to conquer illhealth disease, accidents etc which lead to death and to conquer death itself Look at the medical and surgical researches They all go to show that man does not want to die. Why? Because immortality is also a basic property of the soul.
We thus find that knowledge, freedom, happiness and immortality are the inherent properties of the soul. We can in the same way investigate other basic properties Basic properties of a substance are constant They cannot vary from unit to unit A number of samples of pure gold will all possess the same property Their colour, touch, feel, specific gravity will be the same from a standard sample it shows that it contains some alloy, e foreign matter or impurities All souls must similarly have constant properties No two pure can If a sample is different
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| SR No. | 010772 |
| Book Title | Ratnamuni Smruti Granth |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Vijaymuni Shastri, Harishankar Sharma |
| Publisher | Gurudev Smruti Granth Samiti |
| Publication Year | 1964 |
| Total Pages | 687 |
| Language | Hindi |
| Classification | Book_Devnagari |
| File Size | 21 MB |