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
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Now the story is an allegory and can be explained as follows.
The courtier is the soul. Nityamitra is our physical body having daily contact with us. Parvamitra is like our friends and relatives.
Tuharmitra is our occasional performance of religious merits When death arrives the physical body leaves us immediately having severed all connections. Our friends and relatives follow us to some distance, shed a few tears and then soon return; while occasionally performed religious merits do not leave us even in the other world and grant us peace and happiness in adversities. Therefore, leave aside attachment for the selfish body and entertain love for religious merits as compared with Jaharamitra.
There is something more valuable than body and that is your soul. If there is no soul in a body what is the value of dimensions and fairness of this body? When a man dies, do you know what the people say? They say, "Make haste.” But they want to make haste for what? They even want to take the body to the cemetery ground in haste. More delay might make the corpse more heavy. The corpse is tied fast along with the bamboo sticks and carried to the cemetery ground. There it is placed on funeral pyre and consumed to fire. The body which was fed and fostered by you with palatable morsels neglecting even religious merits has to meet with this plight!
Thus soul is the most valuable entity in this world. Any amount of diamonds cannot be equivalent to the value of soul. Then how much care do you take for this most valuable soul? The fact is, you have not realised the true value of soul, otherwise you could not have been reduced to this condition. Now for estimation of a highly valuable entity one should have experience and acumen.
Peshwa Nana Fadanwis was recognised as a person of remarkably high intelligence. Once a merchant came to his court and asked him to estimate the value of a costly diamond. There were many jewellers in the court and they valued the diamond to the tune of about one and a half lacs of rupees. Then the said diamond was placed in the hands of Nana Fadanwis who watched it with full scrutiny. In the meanwhile a fly sat on the diamond and he at once came to the conclusion that it was not a genuine diamond. It was made from a sugar piece. Then he told the merchant that the