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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
श्रुतसागर
अप्रैल-२०१९ see the dead body burning in the cremation grounds? Who will not think that even he one day must leave all the wealth he has acquired through hard work and go alone? Even the loving members of our family do not come with us.
We deck ourselves with wealth and palatial houses; but all those things will go in vain at the end.. The mind feels repentant when it has lost its opportunity.
Money, property, beauty, youth and family are like a furious whirlwind. All things lose their lustre when the air (breath) moves away. Hence, feeling proud of those things is vain and futile. The whole world is like a choultry. We have to stay in it for a fixed period. After the fixed period is over, We have to go forward carrying the bundle of sins and merits. This is inevitable. Nobody can live permanently in a choultry.
धनानि भूमौ पशवश्च गोष्ठे; कान्तागृहद्वारे जनः श्मशाने। देहश्चितायां परलोक मार्गे; कर्मानुगो गच्छति जीव एकः॥ Dhanani bhoomau pashavascha goshte kanta grihadware janah smashane Dehaschitayam paraloka marge karmanugo gachchati jiva ekah
Wealth remains underground; (in those days people used to bursy their money secretly underground); cattle remain in the shed; wife comes up to the door of the house; the members of the family and other relatives come up to the cremation grounds; the body comes up to the funeral pyre. Beyond that the Jiva has to go on its journey alone carrying Karma.
Life is like a borrowed jewel that gives a false pride and it is nothing more.
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