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________________ Vaisali and the Ideal of Universal Brotherhood 83 and assert the spirit. Many more still are just frauds; they deal with the spirit and the material life as things apart. This is at the root of the world's tragic failure. We have to learn the true philosophy of life. The spirit of man is rooted in the mind. The mind is rooted in body: the body in material life. This life is again rooted in the organisni of life made of the tree, the animal, the man. The living organism is rooted in the sunshine and soil, the rivers and the mountains and the climatic conditions of our land. The collective welfare, material, economic, social, political, moral and spiritual welfare, make for the health of this organism. Of them all, spiritual welfare is the most potent; for by the sense of oneness which it creates, is the organism bound, maintained and vitalised. There is yet a wider organism of life, we call it the world. It is a living organism though we know it not. It consists of a single organism of life, one world, dependent on the physical determinants of the globe. The life of the globe in its turn is a part of the large, wider life of the universe which has an organism of its own, physical, moral and spiritual. We are but the tiniest of its tiny fragments. But underlying the whole universal organism is the Spirit unfolding itself through graded sta zes to flower as the fundamental aspiration in Man. We must move out of our Darrow, egoistic self to a vast foundation which reaches out to a collective consciousness of oneness, with the whole of India; from India to the one world; from one world to all existencenot in thought, not in aspiration, but by the aspiration transforming step by step the ways of individual life and the life of the organism. We must see and feel more and more of life, not only as one with ourselves, but one with universal consciousness. We must see, not in theory, not in belief, but in feeling and living, all in ourselves and all in God; all in Him and Him in all'. Then we will have one India, one world, a new era, and a dawn of full life. And then only will the Masters who once trode the dust of Vaigali have lived, but not in vain. T PURPOMON
| SR No. | 012088 |
| Book Title | Vaishali Abhinandan Granth |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Yogendra Mishra |
| Publisher | Research Institute of Prakrit Jainology and Ahimsa |
| Publication Year | 1985 |
| Total Pages | 592 |
| Language | Hindi, English |
| Classification | Smruti_Granth |
| File Size | 17 MB |