Amar Vani

Author(s): Amarmuni
Publisher: Sanmati Gyan Pith Agra

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AMAR VANI
have no strength or existence of our own. It is the circumstances that make or unmake man. Man is the slave, the bond slave of his circumstances. It may be that a small man may have become great. Well, he may have got favourable circumstances. Another man has been ruined, What could he do ? Circumstances did not favour him”. This is one way of approaching the problem.
The second approach to the same problem can be stated thus : “Circumstances are nothing, man is supreme. Can circumstances forcibly bring down or raise a man ? No, it is not possible. Man is an independent being. He is not a toy in the hands of circumstances. The strong man can control and govern his circumstances. He can make even the unfavourable circumstances favourable to him. He can moula the circumstances to his liking. Man is the conqueror and not the slave of circumstances. Circumstances can control only that man who has already lost his manhood and strength."
The second approach is the approach of SHRAMANA CULTURE. Shramana Culure believes in the superiority of man over his circumstances, Man is himself the architect of his fate. He is the centre of unlimited power. He is the conqueror of the world. He alone and none else has that mighty power,