Atmatatva Vichar Or Philosophy Of Soul

SR No.: 023322
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Vijaylakshmansuri, Ghanshyam Joshi, Kirtivijay Gani
Publisher: Mohanlal D Mehta
Publication Year: 1963
Total Pages: 568
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 39 MB

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PHILOSOPHY OF SOUL
glides on the rope with a dagger or a knife. Ilakumar also exhibited such performances before the king and the queen. The audience also was wonderstruck at the marvels displayed by Ilakumar. He was eager to please the king and win a reward from him and marry the girl he loved so much thereby.
But the king also was much charmed by the beauty of the same dancing girl. He thought, "If this dancer falls from the rope and dies, I would take up this girl for marriage.” Ilakumar strived his best to make a best show, the audience was mad with admiration but the king did not appreciate. King's pleasure only could procure the girl for him. So he went up the rope to dance next time. This time also the king showed no signs of admiration. Thus he went up the rope third time and the fourth time. But the king had decided not to show any signs of pleasure.
The audience was much surprised why the king could not be pleased and the queen also entertained doubt whether the king had some attraction for the attractive dancing girl.
Now once more for the fifth time Ilakumar went up the rope to dance staking his life. In the meanwhile, he overlooked in a house nearby to find that a Jain monk though requested by a very beautiful and young lady to accept sweet-balls, did not accept them and did not even care to look up in her face. There must be some circumstance aiding for the manifestation of knowledge (Omniscience) and such circumstance was present here for Ilakumar. He thought, “This monk is young and that lady is also young and highly attractive. Both stand in a lonely place, and still this monk is not perturbed in the least, while I am loafing here and there, leading the life of a vagrant under infactuation for this girl. I should be condemned. I condemn my passionate intoxication. I put my life at stake to please this king. This is all my stupidity. I should awake.” Ilakumar realised futility of worldly pleasures and his duty towards his ownself. This is real consciousness—real knowledge. More consciousness led to the consumption of the impressional actions (Karmas) of his previous births and the present life. Omniscience was revealed to him even when he was on the rope. His past acts were consumed-were rendered fruitless. The bamboo turned into a royal throne to the great astonishment of the people and Ilakumar was found seated on the royal throne. The gods hailed him on his attainment of 'highest knowledge.'