Jain Journal 1975 10

SR No.: 520040
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication
Publication Year: 1975
Total Pages: 72
Language: English
Classification: Magazine, India_Jain Journal, & India
File Size: 3 MB

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JAIN JOURNAL
mood, her touch and smell, her spoken word-are the five nooses of the snare. Do not get entangled in them. Entanglement in them is what is called attraction towards woman.
Chullak :
I am not attracted towards woman but it is the woman who runs after me. I do not know how to conduct myself.
Vardhaman :
Praise not thyself, nor calumny others. Practise what you preach. Cast no aspersions on your elders. No one becomes great by outward show. Greatness comes from within. Little minds cannot do great acts, as an elephant cannot pass through a small gate. Be a man of pious resolves, and not a useless burden to yourself and to others-like an odourless blossom on a creeper.
Chullak :
Your precepts have brought peace to my mind, as there is peace at home when my wife is cheerful.
Indragop :
Why drag your wife in every conversation ?
Chullak :
Because she says, I am incomplete without her.
Vardhaman :
Nature has created everything complete in itself. Neither the sun nor the moon, neither the earth nor the sky, neither the river nor the mountain, nor even the fireare incomplete in themselves. You too are not incomplete in yourself. Perversions create doubts in mind. And it is these doubts that give you a feeling of incompleteness. Air carries dust upwards, but the same dust returns down to the earth through the clouds. In the same way, discretion distils a confused mind.
Chullak :
Now my mind is at perfect rest.
Indragop :
And what should be my course of conduct ?
Vardhaman :
Be a true Shravak. Get rid of all influences of previous birth. Do not expect anything from anyone, so that you may have none to fear. If you view this world in the true perspective, you will have no avarice left. As you get pleasure and relief on shaking off your ailment,