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PHILOSOPHY OF SOUL
Numberless graceful and beautiful celestial damsels attend upon him. We can hardly imagine the beauty of these damsels. A goldsmith named Kumara Nandi had gone mad when he saw the beauty of the damsels named Hāsā and Prahāsā.
Here is an incident which occurred at the time when Lord Mahavira was not still initiated. Kumar Nandi gold-smith was a multimillionaire and was mad after faminine beauty. He would spend five hundred golden coins and marry an extremely beautiful maiden if he came across. Thus he had a series of beautiful damsels in his dalliance room each surpassing the other. Still when he came across the fabulously charming Hāsā and Prahāsā he found all his collections of beauty quite insignificant. He was determined to marry them at any cost. These heavenly damsels advised him to give away all his property in charity and die with staunch yearning for them. So he did, and in the next life he married Hāsā and Prahāsā.
All this means that celestial beauty surpasses all beauties of the human world. If such an ordinary heavenly damsel like Hāsā and Prahāsā were possessed of such excellence of feminine beauty then the beauty of "Indrani" (Beauty Queen) of heaven is inconceivable. He who enjoys that beauty derives pleasure and happiness almost indescribable in nature, but the emancipated soul derives ecstacy or bliss infinitely more than that enjoyed by the Lord of beauty Queens of heaven.
All the happiness of all the times enjoyed by the gods if multiplied infinite times and the result raised to the squares infinite times would not equalise the happiness enjoyed by the emancipated soul.
The soul manifests its highest state of knowledge, sight, power and ecstacy in the emancipated condition. No better condition than this, is conceivable, and therefore the wise yearn and strive to attain this condition of the soul. One of the terms which represents these efforts is "Dharma or Religion". You have to practise the said "Dharma" to achieve the real ecstacy of soul.
We are going to deal at length with religion ahead but here we simply express in short that practise charity, righteous conduct, penances and try to check up your progress daily.
You always take pride in amassing wealth but the wealth which you spend in charity only belongs to you and the rest does not belong to you at any cost-under any circumstances.
