Awakening

Author(s): Padmasagarsuri
Publisher: Arunoday Foundation

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degree, will it not be necessary to spend at least four or five years to attain (Samyakthva) Rightness in respect of moral and spiritual matters. If you make it a rule to study and get by heart two Sutras (aphorisms) a day, within a period of five years, you can memorize more than 3500 Sutras. Little drops of water make the mighty ocean. This proverb will be meaningful with respect to your life. You will become a Sruthjnani i.e. an enlightened man, by studying the scriptures.
Your enlightement will give you inspiration to act in the right manner. In this manner, your life will be decorated by the ornaments of the right philosophical outlook, right knowledge and right character.
In the past material comforts were few, but today they are abundant. Inspite of it in the past people were happy and enjoyed peace of mind; but today material comforts have increased hundreds of times, but there is a dearth of happiness and peace. Happiness lies within man and he cannot get it by running after it as if it is present in outward things like material comforts. There seems to be happiness at a distance like a mirage but if we go near it we will be disappointed to find that it is not there. One night, an old woman was searching for something on a road where there was light. When she was asked what she was searching for, she replied that she was searching for her lost needle,