Atma Siddhi

Author(s): Shrimad Rajchandra, J L Jaini
Publisher: Shrimad Rajchandra Ashram

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not only for now, but for ever. Thus our own sin seems to claim us for infinity. But this is wrong. The law of Cause and Effect is inexorable but scrupulously just. One sin merits only one punishment. Neither more nor less. So there is room for repentence and reform. Theology terms it Grace and Forgiveness. But Rationalism calls in the triumph of enlightened altruism over an erroneous yielding to narrow and selfish temptation. It is useful to make this clear to encourage the drooping heart of the sinner; to point out to the ever-burning fire of Hope and Faith and Good will; to set the weary and distressed pilgrim once more on the path to God. This is what self-realisation aims at doing.
The text is slightly, only slightly, technical. But in the notes I have tried to give the cosmopolitan spirit in which, I believe, Rajchandra conceived the verses.
I am sure that carefully read, the small book will be a sure guide and solace to many and many a sore-footed man and woman on the rough road of life. HIGH COURT, 1 INDORE,
J. L. JAINI. January, 1923. J
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