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PHILOSOPHY OF SOUL
said, "Oh friend, you saved me, my state and yourself with the help of religion. Kindly accept the minister's post again. I make your salary double, I assure you, you will not be interfered in your religious practices and you make me also religious as you are. After you finish with your rites, please join your duties.”
With these words the minister was highly pleased not because of the duplication of his salary or regain of his ministerial post, but because in the king's heart the faith in religion was originated.
If the minister remained firm in his outlook on life and in religion, he himself rose to higher status and could oblige the king even. If he swerved from his faith in religion, he might have lost his life and religious merits too. Therefore, the wise should cultivate and continue deep interest and attachment for religion and should never flinch from it even at the cost of life.
84 LAKHS OF BIRTHS : AND OTHER DETAILS Now we return to the main topic. The authors of the scriptures have enumerated 84 lakhs of births as follows:
7 Lacs with earthly bodies. 7 Lacs with watery bodies. 7 Lacs with fiery bodies. 7 Lacs with air bodies. 10 Lacs with individual vegetation bodies.
all these creatures 14 Lacs with general bodies.
have one sense of 2 Lacs with two senses of perception. perception. 2 Lacs with three senses of perception. 2 Lacs with four senses of perception. 4 Lacs.gods. 4 Lacs as residents of hell. 4 Lacs animals of five senses. 14 Lacs human beings.
Total 84 Lacs of Births.
In these 84 lacs of births gods have one "Gati", residents of hell have one "Gati”, human beings have one "Gati" and the animals have one. So Gati is our-fold: Gods’, Human beings', Animals”, and Hell-beings'. Each preceding one stands on a higher plane than
| 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 |