Atma Siddhi

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

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ATMA-SIDDHI
External Ritual is Insufficient. बाह्यक्रियामां राचता, अंतर्भेद न कांइ । ज्ञानमार्ग निषेधता, तेह क्रियाजड आंहि ॥४॥
बाह्यक्रियासमासक्ता विवेकविकला नराः । ज्ञानमार्ग निषेधन्तस्तेऽत्र क्रियाजडा मताः ॥४॥
Engrossed in external ritual, with no inner discrimination, nullifying (by ignoring the full value of) the path of wisdom, sush indeed are stock-and-stones-retualists (merely). SELF-KNOWLEDGE IS NECESSARY.
5 Barren knowledge is only lipdeep. बंध, मोक्ष छे कल्पना, भाखे वाणीमांहि । वर्ते मोहावेशमां, शुष्कज्ञानी ते आंहि ॥५॥
‘कल्पितौ बन्ध-मोक्षौ स्तः' इति वाग् यस्य केवलम् । चरितं मोहनापूर्ण तेऽत्र शानजडा जनाः ॥ ५ ॥ : “Bondage and liberation are illusory,” so they speak in words, but their life is full of delusion, such indeed are the men of barren knowledge.
Commentary.-From the absolute and purest point of view of reality, the soul in its eternal