Book Title: Awakening
Author(s): Padmasagarsuri
Publisher: Arunoday Foundation

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________________ Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra www.kobatirth.org 2 Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir Atmahatya. Atma means soul; and hatya means slaying. But atma or soul is immortal and imperishable. Such an entity cannot be killed. Some people who believe that the body is the soul have given currency to this expression; and so it is in usage. This idiom of the language cannot be done away with. Let it remain so. Shankaracharya said; अर्थमनर्थ भावय नित्यम् नास्ति ततः सुखलेशः सत्यम् Arthamanartham Bhavaya nityam Nasthi thathah sukhalesah satyam (Think that wealth always brings misery. Truly in this (wealth) there is no happiness). An illustration would make this point more clear. While two friends were walking by a road, a holy man came running from the opposite direction. They stopped him and asked him why he was running thus. The holy man said, "I saw Death beneath a tree on the way. I am running away to escape from him." The holy man went away. The two friends walked on. When they approached the tree, they saw a brick of gold beneath it. One friend told the other that the holy man had planned to frighten them and make them go in a different direction, so that they might not get the brick, and so that he might take possession of it on his way back; but that his plan had failed. For Private And Personal Use Only

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