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CONQUER THYSELF: A PARABLE.
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T. L. Vaswani.
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HERE is a story of a rich and prosperous man; and this man has built a beautiful house and married a beautiful girl: and he thinks that he is happy. But suddenly he makes a discovery, an awful discovery, a tragic discovery. Suddenly he finds that his own dear wife, his beloved one, she on whom he had lavished all the love of his heart, he finds that this girl has gone and lived with his brother; and so the rich man's heart is broken. He says to himself :-'I kept her happy in every way, and I lavished all the love of my heart upon her, and she has been faithless to me! I must leave her, and I must wander from place to place, until I discover happiness. Where is the kingdom of happiness?" And so he distributes his wealth amongst the poor and goes out,--lonliness eating into his heart and with a deep longing for happiness. Somewhere" he says to himself, "perchance, perchance. I may find somewhere, somewhere perchance I may know, the secret of Happiness." And so he leaves Athens for Rome. In Rome he meets a number of eminent thinkers; he goes and lives with them; he finds that these thinkers write learned things in their books, but in their own lives are unhappy, and so he is disappointed. He says to himself :-" What shall I do with a thinker who writes books, but who has not the spring of joy in his heart?" He leaves Rome; and from Rome he passes on to other lands until he comes to Egypt. Egypt was rich in Philosophical thought and tradition. Egypt was the land of the Pyramids. In Egypt they say to him, the thinkers, the philosophers- they say to him;Look at our Pyramids Look at the huge gigantic structure the skill of Egypt has built and from the Pyramids, get the message you need." The man sees the Pyramids but finds no peace in his heart. This man says to himself:-"The Pyramids are mighty but have no message for me. They are Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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| SR No. | 034890 |
| Book Title | Jaina Gazette 1928 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Ajitprasad, C S Mallinath |
| Publisher | Jaina Gazettee Office |
| Publication Year | 1928 |
| Total Pages | 502 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 33 MB |