Awakening

Author(s): Padmasagarsuri
Publisher: Arunoday Foundation

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All creatures, that are born, easily attain the stage of life or existence. Of course, they get existence and life but it is not an easy task to make life flower forth and develop by means of renunciation, and self-control. It does not matter if the boat sails on water ; but water should not enter the boat. If such a thing happens, the boat sinks;
A scholar has said :
जहा पडमं जले जायं नोवलिप्पइ वारिगा। Jaha padamam jale jayam novalipp yi varina.
Just as a lotus born in water remains untouched by water, the enlightened man though born in this world remains untouched by the worldly life. He will not take interest in the transitory, sensual and physical pleasures and joys. He knows that man is a traveller not a dweller in this world. It inay be possible to acquire material wealth in life. But all that will vanish one day. When a man dies even his wife who lived closest to him day and night while he was alive, would not like to sit near the dead body. The body too does not accompany the Jiva. When that is so how can wealth remain with man ?
Life is like a fleeting dream. A dream lasts a few minutes; and human life may last sixty or eighty years or at the most one may live upto the age of one hundred or one hundred and twenty five years. That is the