JAINA Convention 1991 07 Northern California

SR No.: 527513
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Federation of JAINA
Publisher: USA Federation of JAINA
Publication Year: 1991
Total Pages: 108
Language: English
Classification: Magazine, USA_Convention JAINA, & USA
File Size: 12 MB

Page 69

"Extending Jain Heritage to the Next Generation"
Shrimad Rajchandra
A MODERN PHILOSOPHY OF SELF REALIZATION by Neha and Namrata Patel
Shrimad Rajachandra (Kriupaludev) at the early age of seven asked what leaves one's body apon ones death? Who am I, body or soul? Deeply pondering these questions, he recognized his previous lives and therefore, concluded that one is not only of the physical body, but one is reincamated to fulfill those needs which were not accomplished in previous lives.
beings in this world as I look upon my own. I have the same affection for all the souls as I have for my own. The joyous peace which I aspire for my soul shall be the state for all the souls. The affection which I have for my own body, I have for all other things and bodies. I cannot claim something special for myself which I deny others."
"Moksha means freedom from suffering of this world. It means achieving an unique state of knowledge and insight in which resides the highest unending happiness and bliss-where there is absence of birth and death, all the limitations of sorrow, and 3) The soul is the doer of Karmas sufferings of life. It is, therefore, our duty to bound by bondage. take shelter in the words of the passionless
The true knowledge, faith, and pure conduct are imperative for soul enlightenment. Soul qualities are as follows: 1) The soul exists.
2) The soul is eternal.
4) The soul is the enjoyer of fruits of (vitarag)." Karmas.
5) The soul can gain liberation. 6) There is a means of liberation by the soul becoming an observer.
Kripaludevsummed up his feelings as: "I look upon the souls of the entire living
Gandhiji had said "Rajendrabhai has conquered my heart by his religious zeal and up to this time no man has ever influenced me so deeply" because what he actually had lived and experienced in his life was what he preached.
ALEXANDER MEETING THE JAINS by Tom Jones
Alexander the Great face-to-face with the "spacegarmented ones," the Jains clothed only in airAlexander called them "gymnosophists", "naked philosophers", their nudity a symbol of liberation, detachment from all desires - known for their compassion for all creatures, animal sanctuaries and shelters, the Jains in their whole history have never fought a war. In Jain mythological time, once the earth was sugar, the river as delicious as wine, that ancient age know as susama-susama - "Very Beautiful, Very Beautiful". lasting 400,000,000,000,000* oceans of years, giving way, in time's ever-so-slow eternal revolution, to the "Sorrowfully Very Beautiful," when joy mixed with griefour modern age known simply as the "Sorrowful" Earth-bodies, fire-bodies, water-bodies - life in the elements themselves - wind-lives in the air, the deepest reverence for all creation, "not-to-kill", ahimsa, strict vegetarians enduring life-threatening fasts, great austerities - naked philosophers on scorching sun-rocks greeting Alexander the Great in 326 B.C., awaiting the millenium
when again "the earth will sweeten ... waters turn to wine." FIRST PUBLISHED IN "INDIA CURRENTS" @Tom Jones 1990
Our prayer should be: Oh, God, I have been looking for you for so many births. You are the forgiver. Please bless me, give me the strength to accept karmas with ease, equality of acceptance of the goods and bads and show me my own faults so they can be resolved with compassion, peace, equanimity, forgiveness, truth, renunciation, nonattachment as they are found in the heart of a liberated pure soul. Enlightenment is full of conciousness and self brilliance. Soul experiences and recognises self realization. Everything else is insignificant compared to the pure knowledge of soul that I will gain through your kind guidance for eternal life. When the rejoice of identification of the soul with the body ceases, it is realized that is the secret of true religion.
Shrimad Rajchandra had said that he was not Hindu, Moslem, Catholic, Christian, Buddhist or Jain but that he was an "Enlightened soul." Realize and say to yourself "You don't own anything but your soul."
For the enlightenment of your own soul, we strongly urge you to unquire about Shrimad Rajachandra's life through these books: Shrimad Rajachandra-- a life, Mokshamala, Bhavana Bodh, Atma-Siddhi (self-realization), and Vachanamruts from Agas Ashram near Anand, Gujrat.
KOVALAM BEACH by Tom Jones Kovalam Beach, south of Trivandrum,
the green rim of rain forest fringed with tall coconut palms, all the unnamed, unnameable blues of India Sun and Waves, blonde sand crescent moon classic watering hole on the Kerala coast,
dream-heat surf's up on the Arabian Sea,
a natural paradise of blue lagoons and secret coves One of the few times I've scen Barry enraged, seeing his paradise lost to the developers, "Southern California infesting India like a parasite! Money! A misuse of the idea of freedom! There has to be another way - Gandhi's way!" The Jains say: "Injury to the earth is like striking, cutting, killing, or maiming a blind man..."
Poems from "FOOTBRIDGE TO INDIA" by Tom Jones, published by Prentice Hall (RS100), available at Jean Johnson (212) 254-1238.
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