Life of Shrimad Rajchandra

SR No.: 250392
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Total Pages: 26
Language: English
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seek in life is true religion. Religion alone can be man's savior. 3. The soul has been passing through a chain of births and deaths and it is high time for it to think of its freedom from Sansara - a cycle of births and deaths. One should consciously realize that the soul's nature is freedom and so it is but natural to think of its salvation from Sansara. 4. This my soul, has always been and, is alone. It will suffer the fruits of its deeds and it is the lone pilgrim. 5. All souls are independent and none is really related to the other. 6. This body is unholy, it gives out and absorbs many unholy and impure substances. I, as a soul, am quite independent of my body which is subject to disease and death. 7. Attachment, avarice, ignorance, sense of futility, etc. are binding the soul. 8. One should devote his time to acquiring knowledge and meditation and thereby save oneself from the bondage of fresh actions. 9. To act with full knowledge of the nature of the Self is the way to cut the knot of binding actions. 10. To think of the fourteen worlds in which the soul wanders in bondage. 11. To determine that a man cannot attain the right knowledge of the nature of the Self while living the worldly life. Even if such knowledge may be had, conscious abidance in the true nature of the Self will become difficult. Hence, one should feel intense obligation of the enlightened Guru who explains the true nature of the Self. 12. Therefore one should appreciate the rare possibility of obtaining the right preceptor of religion and one should lose no time in following his advice, should he be available. Shrimadji writes about the Mokshamala that a reader, on deep thinking and reflection on the subjects discussed in it, will find his way to salvation. The book is an impartial composition on philosophy and ethics. Its aim is to retrace young minds from acquiring wrong information of truth and reality and to put them on the path of right knowledge and action leading to liberation. Shrimadji himself stated that his spirit of non-attachment, at the time he composed Mokshamala, could only be compared with the spirit of non-attachment that was found in Shri Ramchandraji as described in Yoga Vashishta. He said that he studied all Jain scriptures in fifteen months and during the study the index of his non-attachment was extremely high to such an extent that he would not be aware whether he ate or not. In Mokshamala Shrimadji explains: * The nature of true God, true preceptor and true religion. He protests against the description of Jainism as a skeptical religion. To him Jainism is the true appreciation of God, man and the world. It does not deny Godhood, it only denies God as the creator of the world.