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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
SHRUTSAGAR
February-2019
Awakening
(from past issue...)
Acharya Padmasagarsuri
A scholar has said: जहा पउमं जले जायं नोवलिप्पइ वारिणा।
Jaha paumam jale jayam novalippyi varina.
Just as a lotus born in water remains untouched by water, the enlightened man though born in this world remains untouched by the worldly life. He will not take interest in the transitory, sensual and physical pleasures and joys. He knows that man is a traveller not a dweller in this world. It may be possible to acquire material wealth in life. But all that will vanish one day. When a man dies even his wife who lived closest to him day and night while he was alive, would not like to sit near the dead body. The body too does not accompany the Jiva. When that is so how can wealth remain with man?
Life is like a fleeting dream. A dream lasts a few minutes; and human life may last sixty or eighty years or at the most one may live upto the age of one hundred or one hundred and twenty five years. That is the maximum limit. The wise man is he who can use as much of this illusory life as possible for a noble purpose. Lord Mahavir said: समयं गोयम! मा पमायये Samayam goyam ma pamayaye (Oh, Gautam! do not be indifferent even for a moment)
An enlightened man is a seer and a revealer. Our duty is to walk upon the path shown by him. We cannot cross the ocean of life by any other method.
God is not capable of taking human beings out of the ocean of life. He can only show the way to salvation. Whoever goes
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