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PHILOSOPHY OF SOUL
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Temporal happiness is not real but illusory. Still you presume it as real and a matter of fact. Such illusory and trifling happiness can in no way be compared with the smallest possible fraction of spiritual happiness.
You know some small children cannot be dissuaded from their habit of sucking their thumb because they wrongly believe that they suck milk from the thumb but in fact they suck only saliva.
A dog also licking bones, enjoys the taste of blood but it hardly knows that the blood which it tastes is its own blood oozing from the injury sustained in its own palate.
Temporal or wordly happiness also is similarly illusory and not real and still it is presumed to be real.
People believe that they derive happiness from wealth, power, wife and family but nothing from this lot has the capacity to grant happiness. People have wrongly taken them as the source of happiness and that is why these objects wrongly appear as the source of happiness. Some discussion in this connection shall be enough for elucidation.
Once upon a time a very poor man suddenly earned a good deal of money and so with joy he daily counted five lacs of rupees. His joy doubled when his amount of money was doubled but suddenly he lost some money and the amount was reduced to five lacs. Now he deeply regretted the loss. Why did he enjoy the gain formerly and why did he regret the loss thereafter. He enjoyed when he felt that his amount was increasing and he regretted when he felt that his amount was decreasing. The difference lies in his feeling or believing. He formerly enjoyed the possession of five lacs and later on he regretted the possession of the same amount of five lacs. Thus the concept of happiness or regret lies in one's own belief.
People celebrate their marriage in full pomp. Newly wedded pair has boundless joy. Husband and wife both presume each other as their source of happiness and joy. Few days or months pass by and the newly wedded ones quarrel on petty matters. Some times staunch hatred prevails between the two. If one of of them were the cause of happiness for the other how could this happen? Bhartruhari was deeply in love with his wife Pingala,
| SR No. | 023322 |
| Book Title | Atmatatva Vichar Or Philosophy Of Soul |
| 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 |