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PHILOSOPHY OF SOUL
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Material joys are artificially made up, transitory, futile and debased. The same has been explained to you yesterday in details and one cannot obtain real spiritual bliss unless one abandons all these material joys.
Mental peace is the necessary pre-requisite for the attainment of spiritual happiness, but today mental peace has practically absconded. Right from the minister to the peon, none enjoys peace. Man minting millions usually suffers mental uneasiness and unrest as a man earning a few hundreds. Everybody's mind is running wild. People crave for peace but the modern life routine allows no scope for such peace. This entire situation should be overhauled and set right.
We desire an object and we do not rest till we achieve it. After its achievement we are again inclined to aspire for another object and this results in loss of peace. Thus desire is followed by fulfilment which again is followed by another desire, and this vicious circle keeps on moving leaving no scope for lasting peace.
When your son is at a school, you worry for his school-leaving examination results. When he goes through the said examination well, you again worry for his admission to the college. Fortunately when he has secured the admission, you worry for his graduation, then for his job, then for his station in life, then for his ideal wife, and then for his son. Thus this worldly life is a chain of endless worries.
When you feel that you acquired particular happiness then the other happiness which you had achieved already escapes from you.
A MERCHANT AND A FROG
A merchant once upon a time went to purchase clarified butter. He wanted five pounds of butter. So he took along with him weights of five pounds. Now he had a pot with him to carry butter. This pot should be weighed to balance the fulcrum but he had no extra weights. He did not find any stones nearby. At some distance he found a few frogs jumping in a pond. He tied about half a dozen frogs in his cloth and put few ones in a pan against the pot. They were found underweight and he tried to take out few more frogs but in the meanwhile the frogs in the pan jumped off. The merchant
| 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 |