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“Sambodhi” is his masterpiece, composed after the style of Gīta. Arjun in Gītā proves to be a coward on the battle-field at Kurukṣetra, whereas Meghkumar, (son of Shreņika), in Sambodhi proves to be a coward on the battle-field of Sādhanā. Lord Krishna's teachings dispelled the doubts lurking in Arjun's heart, in the same way Lord Mahavira's teachings enlightened the soul of Meghkumar as depicted in “Sambodhi'. A lamp makes another lamp burn. The light of the one enkindles the other. “Sambodhi" comprises of right knowledge, right perception and right conduct as well. Without right perception knowledge turns into ignorance, and without right conduct knowledge and perception are meaningless. Thus Yuvāchāryaji has done a yeoman's service by leading us to the Kingdom of Heaven (self-emancipation), as Lord Rşabha told his ninetyeight sons who had come to him to complain against Bharat :
Sambujjhaha kis na bujjaha, sambohi khalu pecca dullahā. No hu vaṇamanti rāiyo, ņo sulabham pusarāvi jīviyam. [Attain sambodhi. Why are you not striving for sambodhi ? The night once past never returns. This human existence is not easy to be attained again and again. ]
Under poetic prose, half a dozen works "Bandi sabda mukta bhāva”, “Vijaya Yātrā” “Gūnjate svara bahare kāna”, “Anubhava, cintana, manana" etc. are ripe with nature experience of an enlightened soul. This particular series is almost the Bible to many and at any moment of dejection, tension, suspense, or anxiety they may turn almost instinctively to its pages of wisdom and draw therefrom life's breath to drive away despair's hiccough and bless the guide for the new life vouchsafed to them. His language is pregrant, but simple, terse and even aphoristic. His “Ocean in drops” is packed full of such wisdom :
Handle the cord thus that no knot forms. Make thy moves thus that no quarrel ensues. Comb thy hair thus that it does not get entangled. Form thy thoughts thus that they do not clash; otherwise, knots tighten, wars afflict, hair gets tangled and sparks scientillate.
[ Page 31 ] Tagore got the Nobel Prize for the Gītānjali. Anybody would say that Yuvāchāryaji's work is in no way inferior to that of the Nobel Laureate.
The philosophical treatment of the lives of the Preceptors :“Gramaņa Mahāvīra”, Bhikṣu vicāra darśana”, “Ācārya Śrī Tulsī” is unsurpassed in various ways. No other writer has given a more authentic and systematic exposition of the singular contribution of these great
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Tulasĩ Prajĩa
| SR No. | 524517 |
| Book Title | Tulsi Prajna 1979 02 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Nathmal Tatia |
| Publisher | Jain Vishva Bharati |
| Publication Year | 1979 |
| Total Pages | 246 |
| Language | Hindi |
| Classification | Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India |
| File Size | 12 MB |