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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
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SAINT MIRA
2. Renunciation of unspiritual habits, etc. : renunciation, therefore, of passion, kama.
3. Renunciation of honours, of “I”, “self”.
The source of our restlessness is “I”, egoistic will : it must go. Jesus asked his disciples to buy the "Pearl of Great Price": and he pointed out that if you would buy the Pearl, you must "sell all you have". All attachment must go,--attachment to money, to woman, and to the “ego”. True renunciation is detachment. Dethrone the “I”! Empty yourself of the "ego”. Be stripped of the little “self”. Be free of all that is other than God, if you will, indeed, love God and rejoice in Him!
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Nor a few of us come to God through a murti, a form of Nature or a human Face divine,--an image, a portrait. Mira greets her God in the Image Divine, Krishna : and God is not to her a far-off entity or a distant being seated in a star but a Brother and a Friend, the "Beloved” who blesses His bhaktas, the “Master” who like the Sun sends out His rays of love to all.
Millions in India are devotees, bhaktas of Krishna : their souls rest in Krishna and His Divine Word. I am not unaware of the fact that there
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