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
prohibited from intimacy with rest of the women of the world. If he does not observe this vow then he would incur sin of having intimacy with rest of the women of the world and consequently he would be inost degraded. When in life you always endeavour to avoid small injury, then why not avoid such heinous degradation ?
By maintaining a vow; man escapes himself from immense sin and by not doing so he incurs immense sin. Even if you restrict yourself to a single vow your sins begin to be annihilated.
It takes little time for total non-attachment to arise after partial non-attachment is once entertained. After total non-attachment the soul is shooting forth for emancipation.
The cardinal point under emphasis is to abandon any tendency of committing sin. When such tendency is abandoned sins are discarded and Karmas also thereafter, are shaken off. On Karmas being shaken off eternal bliss is the result.
A BEGGAR-TENDENCY TO COMMIT SINS
Some 2,500 years ago a beggar wandered for the whole day in vain in the city Rajgruhi in Maghdha Province. There was mountain Vaibhavagiri shadowing the city. The beggar got too much enraged with the city and desiring to destroy the city by any means ascended the mountain to roll down a slab of stone on the city. There lay a huge slab just on the verge of the mountain. The slab if rolled down could devastate the entire town and kill many. The beggar fetched a long strong rope and having fastened the stone began to pull it.
A huge stone stuck firm for thousands of years was too rigid to be moved by a small man. Man under feat of anger loses all consideration of propriety.
Despite strong pull the stone did not move. The beggar applied all his strength but so doing, he slipped and was hurled down in the valley. He died and was reborn in the seventh hell.
This beggar in fact did not kill any one but he intended to kill all the residents of the town. So he contracted very rigid bonds of Karmas and attained very low type of incarnation in seventh hell. We, therefore, preach to abandon any tendency to commit sin.