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Today, when everyone seems to be thinking in terms of war and terror, talking about computers & space crafts, causing disharmony & poverty, spreading environmental crisis and other catastrophic adversaries, why then are we discussing and pondering over topics such as Yoga & Sadhanā. Majority of the people, communities and nations pride in singing laurels of the industrial and mechanical progress and inventions that they are carrying out. But at what cost? They are paying a heavy price of degeneration of moral values, violence, chaos and confusion and have literally pushed the globe towards a precipice. The enlightenment and the glorification of the self is replaced by material and nuclear effulgence. We the scientists, economists, politicians, scholars and social reformers have questioned and examined all aspects available in the universe but have not turned towards ourselves and examined ourselves. The pressure and tension of modern day life seems to be growing multifold and man is finding less and less time to look into his own self. He seems to be evolving from nothingness to nothingness. On the other hand there is a life, a path of life, a way, treading upon which he shall definitely evolve from nothingness to somethingness and to everythingness. This glorious path is the path of perfection, technically termed as Sādhanā.
Today everybody's Sadhanā seems to be confined to acquiring material riches and earning position, name and fame in society. This kind of Sadhanā is for matter and materialistic in nature, momentary and bound to perish with time. On the other hand in the history of mankind great personalities, philosophers & reformers, stand in history as great colossals, who have not given any importance to trivial worldly benefits, who were not materially inclined but turned towards their inner self, searched for their true self enlightened, and perfected their self, as there is no room for any divine grace, each individual had to and has to work out his own good and progress. The kind of Sādhanā they worked out was the last in the process of their evolution after which all goals were reached and all search
completed. It is with this kind of Sādhanā that Yoga is associated. Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only
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| SR No. | 525027 |
| Book Title | Sramana 1996 07 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Ashok Kumar Singh |
| Publisher | Parshvanath Vidhyashram Varanasi |
| Publication Year | 1996 |
| Total Pages | 116 |
| Language | Hindi |
| Classification | Magazine, India_Sramana, & India |
| File Size | 6 MB |