Awakening

Author(s): Padmasagarsuri
Publisher: Arunoday Foundation

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The Aim of Life
If a bud smiles, it blooms and becomes a flower. In the same manner, Prasannatha or cheerfulness is essential for the flowering and development of life.
The passions such as anger destroy this cheerfulness. The same thing happens even on account of passions like moha (infatuation) and mamatha (attachment). Grief, worry, injustice, violence and fear also take away our cheerfulness. Fear arises from weakness and
cowardice.
According to a poet who deals with the sentiment of peace (Shantharasa) in this world fear arises from our relationship with all things except renunciation A person will be fearless if he has renounced everything, because always our minds are occupied by the fear that we may lose the things that we wish to acquire and the things that we acquire.
" सर्वं वस्तु भवान्वितं भुविनृणां वैराग्यमेवाभयम् ॥ Sarvam Vasthu Bhayanvitham Bhuvinrunam
Vairagyamevabhayam
All objects in this world cause fear; only renunciation brings fearlessness.