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

View full book text
Previous | Next

Page 42
________________ Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra www.kobatirth.org 24 Humanity चत्तारि परमंगाणि माणुसतं सुई सद्धा दुल्लहाणि य जन्तुणो । संजमम्मि य वीरियं ॥ Chatthari paramangani Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir dullahaniya janthuno Manusattham suyi saddha sanjamammiya veeriyam||| (Humanity, Scriptual studies, interest in spiritual matters and victory over the senses; these four virtues are rare among living beings). Lord Mahavira said that these four virtues were rare. Of these humanity is the first and the most important one. Today, we shall think of this quality a little. The 84 lakh forms of life that live in a state of confusion attain with difficulty the level of human existence but though they attain human form they do not have the fitness to be called human beings. The true human being is he who has humanity; and in whom dwell the virtues that are appropriate to human For Private And Personal Use Only

Loading...

Page Navigation
1 ... 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211