Atma Siddhi

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

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Living True Teacher is Better प्रत्यक्षसद्गुरु सम नहीं, परोक्ष जिनउपकार । एवो लक्ष थया विना, उगे न आत्मविचार ॥११॥
प्रत्यक्षसद्गुरुतुल्या परोक्षोपकृतिर्न हि । अकृत्वैतादृशं लक्ष्यं नोद्गच्छेदात्मचारणम् ॥ ११ ॥
There is none like the visible (living) true teacher, and like the utility of the Victor (Tirthamkara who is) invisible. Without attending to this, self-contemplation does not arise. ___Commentary :-A living teacher however low compared with the Arhant, is necessary to guide the seeker after truth. Also the word of the Omniscient has its sanctity and efficacy as a guiding, curing and illuminating Precept.
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12 सद्गुरुना उपदेश वण, समजाय न जिनरूप । समज्या वण उपकार शो? समज्ये जिनस्वरूप ॥१२॥ विना सद्गुरुवाचं हि शायते न जिनात्मता । शाने तु सुलभा सैवाऽझाने उपकृतिः कथम् ? ॥ १२ ॥
Without the teaching of the True Teacher, the character of the Victor (Jina) is not understood. How can any good (be done to a soul)
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