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PUBLISHER'S NOTE. The Great mind which rendered into English, the Great Discourse of Shri Guna-Bhadra-Acharya, left the corporeal tenement known as J. L. Jaini, long before this rendering, which is now presented to the public, was out of the printer's hand.
We are thus deprived of the Author's preface. And those who have read his prefaces, introducing the two volumes of Gommatsára know, what a condensed essence of learning, what a fascinating presentment of matter, subtle and sublime, the introductory passages from the pen of J. L. Jaini, contain.
Atmánushásana is, as the very name literally indicates, a discourse divine for the Divinity in man. Each and every one of the 270 verses, is an exhortation in language, simple, persuasive, penetrating, forceful, and effective, to the Atman, the I, the Ego, the Self, to separate its own Self from the non-Átman, the non-I. the non-Ego, the non-Self. This supreme separation is the complete victory of the Soul over Sin, Sorrow, and Death, and is Moksha, Freedom, or Liberation, absolute, perfect, eternal, and everlasting.
AJITASHRAM, LUCK NOW, Phálguna Purnimá, 2453. V.S. The 6th March, 1928 A. D.
AJIT PRASADA.
