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DISCOURSE XV
BLISS OF SOUL
Gentlemen,
We have paid homages to Panch Parmesthi (five divine beings) we have paid homages to Ohm and our Preceptor, now let us pay our respects to the ocean of sacred scriptures as their pious and powerful influences purify our minds and make our life inclined to religion. We also pay our special regards to Shree Uttaradhyayana Sutras in sacred scriptures because therein 36th chapter gives us excellent introduction of wordly soul, and affords opportunity to consider at length the entity of soul.
Today we are going to consider certain matters regarding bliss of soul. This consideration is very important and directly concerns your life and therefore pay your full attention and think well in this matter. You cannot afford to turn your deaf ears here because excellent delivery is useless if the audience is stupid and indiscriminating. What is the use of graceful gestures of a woman when the husband is blind ?
With this much introduction, we now deal with the subject proper. Since the times immemorial, this soul traversing in the universe has made many efforts to achieve happiness. He left no stone unturned and still he could not achieve happiness. Indeed we achieved material-temporal-wordly happiness but such happiness is quite negligible in comparison with natural and real happiness of soul.
Sages, the authors of sacred texts while comparing temporal happiness with spiritual happiness state "All the material happiness of fourteen heavenly kingdoms enjoyed by the soul would not be worthy of infinite-part of spiritual happiness." One would be reluctant to accept the veracity of this statement, but gold would be compared only with gold and not with brass. Some piece of gold can be compared with pure gold but non-gold cannot be compared with gold. If hundred is divided by something the result is something but if hundred is divided by zero the result will be zero.
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