Atmanand Prakash Pustak 012 Ank 02

SR No.: 531134
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jain Atmanand Sabha Bhavnagar
Publisher: Jain Atmanand Sabha Bhavnagar
Publication Year: 1914
Total Pages: 36
Language: Gujarati, Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Atmanand Prakash, & India
File Size: 3 MB

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આત્માનઢું પ્રકાશ
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their satisfaction-can any one doubt that this is the outstanding feature of the Western life at the present time?
At the present time, the one tedious and monotonous refrain of western life--is it not "earn, earn, earn and then its equally loud and strepitant correlative "spend, spend, spend"? spin out the complexity of life to an infinite extent. Fill every moment of it with strenuous bustles. Keep moving always-no matter though you may be moving backwards to hell or but whirling like a top on a point; give tired nerves no rest, the fagged and jaded brain no repose, the weary heart no poaco; look not into the deep inner chambers of the soul. Yea, look not up within but only below where you have paned the green earth with burning gold. Keep up your morbid, galvanic activity, till you drop down dead in the harness and there is a cessation to all your labouring and earning and spending is not this the new evangel of life, which the west through all her chimneys furnaces and machinery dins into the ears of a stunned and stupefied world? And have not the sweetest and the most eloquent voices of the 19th century lifted their accents in feeble protest against "this strange disease of modern life with its sickly harry, its divided aims its overtated heads, and palsied hearts?" Contrast with this the deep peace and harmony which are of the essenco of the ancient civilization of India. The west says multiply your desires' India through her thousand groves, whispers in her ears "check them, minimizo them, reduce them to the smallest possible extent. Make life simple and restful, not complex and labourious. Do not make self your Cod; rather subdue your-self and make it subserve the boundless purpose of Heaven. Above all try by intent meditation not to realize the aloofness of your individuality, but rather to realize your oneness with the eternal soul of things.
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અર્થાત્:વર્તમાન કાળનું પાશ્ચાત્ય શિક્ષણ, સિદ્ધાંત અને પ્રયાગ ઉભયપણે અહંતાના પાયા ઉપર રચાયેલુ છે. તેથી ઉલટું આ સભ્યતા સ્વાત્યાગના પાયા ઉપર ચણાએલી છે. વ્યક્તિ એ પાશ્ચિમાત્ય સભ્યતાનુ કેન્દ્ર છે અને વ્યક્તિનું સુખ એ તેના લક્ષ્ય છે. આ વ્યક્તિ સુખને અથ એવા છે કે તેની ઇચ્છાઓને તૃપ્ત કરવી, દ્રવ્યમાં વધારા કરવા, આશાએશ, માજશોખ, એમને મહેકાવી મુકવા. ઇચ્છાઓને વધારી મુકવી અને પછી તેને તૃપ્ત કરવી; બનાવટી જરૂ