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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
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and useless if we do not have the right vision or if We do not have the habit of right-seeing. The following passage is found in the Kalyana Mandira Stothra, "Oh Lorel! I have heard your (liscourses thoroughly. I have worshipped you thoroughly. I have seen you. I have enshrined you in my mind with devotion. Yet I am experiencing sorrows because austerity without sincerity is but a futility." Only after our mental eyes are opened by a great teacher, can we see the sonl which is formless. The soul is an immortal and imperishable reality. The body may change but the soul oes not. It experiences joy. Its nature is to be happy and to impart happiness to others.
The man who knows the nature of his soul, keeps his desires in his control and will not be a slave to them. He knows that a man who is a slave to desires is a slave to samsar or life and that life is a slave to the man who has conquerell his desires or to whom desires are slaves.
The jiva is agitated and made to wander through Samsar hy desires, aspirations and ambitions. If we go after them to catch them, it will be like chasing a shadow to catch it. This is the lot of those who pursue sensual pleasures. If we leave our shadow behind and turn our face towards the sun and if we run towards the sun, the shadow follows us. In the same manner, the shadow of sensual pleasures falls
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