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

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________________ Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra www.kobatirth.org Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir 68 things ) engages himself in sinful actions and in selfish pursuits to achieve mere existence. The weight of an article can be known accurately only when the needle of the balance is stable. In the same manner, only a stable mind can know the aim of life. To know the aim of life one needs the powers of thinking, reflection and assimilation. One cannot know the aim of life by running after outward things. The fruitfulness of human existence lies in freeing the soul from the various attachments of life (samsar), by means of self-sacrifice, austerity, self-control and self-discipline. Just as Lokamanya Tilak declared that Swaraj (freedom was his birth-right, all sages and ascetics declare that it is the birth-right of all beings to attain Moksha (final release). Those sages say that the aim of life should be to attain divinity. Every Jiv (creature) should aim at becoming Shiv (God) and every soul should aim at attaining the level of divinity. This should be the aim of life. For Private And Personal Use Only

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