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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
SHRUTSAGAR
December-2019
Awakening
Acharya Padmasagarsuri (from past issue...)
The Gurudev or the preceptor teaches the secrets of the shastras only to humble and obedient and disciples. He does not teach arrogant disciples. The arrogant disciples think that they are great scholars. This self-complacency checks their progress. Those arrogant disciples do not like to learn and no teacher likes to teach them.
अज्ञः सुखमाराध्यः सखतरमाराध्यते विशेषज्ञः।
ज्ञानलवदर्विदग्धम् ब्रह्मापि तं नरं न रञ्जयति॥ Ajnah sukhamaradhyah Sukhataramaradhyate visheshajnah. Jnanalavadurvidagdham Brahmapi tam naram na ranjayati .
It is easy to teach an ignorant person. It is easier to teach one who knows much. But even Brahma cannot teach those who have only a little knowledge but who profess to be great scholars.
There is proverb, “Empty vessels make the most sound”. This idea has been well expressed by the composers of Suktis (epigrams).
"376Ufault herifa: Il” Alpavidyo Mahagarvih
It means that one who has little knowledge or one who does not have full knowledge is arrogant.
Briefly, it can be said that, that man is a true Jain who has absolute devotion for the Lord; whose thinking is governed by Anekanta and whose actions are non-violent.
The true Jain is one whose simple enjoyment is his own spiritual serenity, calm in its excess, with not a grief to cloud and not a ray of passion to oppress his peace, with no ambition to reproach his ascetic temper and no rapture to disturb his supreme, sublime, serene bliss; and peace that posset understanding.
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