Spiritual Enlightenment

SR No.: 022373
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Yogindu Deva, A N Upadhye
Publisher: Radiant Publishers
Publication Year: 2000
Total Pages: 162
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 10 MB

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desire for worldly or sensual pleasures) is left cannot free himself from the bondage of Karmas though he might know the Parmartha.
82. One who understands the Shastras (scripture) and practises Tapash-charan (asceticism) but who does not know the Parmartha, cannot destroy his Karmas, and, consequently, cannot obtain Moksha.
83. One who having read the Shastras, does not give up Vikalpa (unsteadiness of mind), is a fool and does not know the Nirmal (faultless) and Shuddha (pure) Paramatman who dwells in all souls.
84. The Shastrasare read in order to gain Jnana(knowledge), but he who having read them does not acquire Atma-Jnana (spiritual knowledge) is a fool.
85. A Mithya Drishti (one who does not possess the right faith) cannot get Moksha, even though he goes around to holy places. One without Jnana (knowledge) cannot become a Muni (saint).
86. There is a great difference between a Jnani (wise) and an Ajnani (ignorant) Muni, the Jnani knows the Jiva (soul) as separate and distinct from the Deha (body) and wishes to abandon it (the body) even.
87. And one who is Ajnani, wishes under the pretext of Dharma (virtue), to take in the whole world; this is the difference between the two.
88. No doubt, a foolish saint takes pleasure in his disciples and books, but a Jnani (saint) knows this kind of conduct to be a cause of bondage, and becomes ashamed of it.
89. Pen, inkstand, paper, etc., and disciples—all these, if they create Moha (attachment) in the minds of saints, cause them to fall down from the path of progress.
90. He who pulls out his hair to become a Digambara (a saint who gives up even the last vestige of cloth), but does not give up Parigraha, that is, Raga and Dvesha-such a saint only