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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
INTRODUCTION.
incarnation of truth, intelligence and felicity, that he possesseth divine attributes, is ever playful, and the most beautiful, and that his worship, eulogized by sages Sanandana and others, and no where reviled, is the liighest object of human ambition. Nor do they know that the means of obtaining him is Bhakhtiyoga or devotion, of which the recitation of his name is the chief, and that these are the great secrets of the S'ástras. To disclose the same unto mankind has this incarnation of intelligence (Chaitanya], assuming the form of Chaitanya, made himself manifest.
Act.-Hus this Hari published any work explanatory of his principles ?
MANAGET.-Though it is well known that the Almighty is the author of the Vedas, yet the performances of the Omniscient are not defined by time, space or agent.
Act.-Why then do not all mankind embrace his doctrine? MANAGER.—How can men with different desires all betake to the same siper-eminent path? Their dispositions impelled by their wishes create a variety of opinions.
Act.-Your Bhakhtiyoga or exercise of devotion, which, you say, was unknown to the authors of our S'ástras, produces a wonderful knowledge the result of which is absorption into the deity, the same which the professors of the S'ástras inculcate, where lies then the difference?
MANAGER.From the text which says :-" The recitation of the name of the Loved One* produces an enamouration and an earnestness which makes him, who adopts this religion, to laugh, and cry, and scream, and sing, and dance like a mad man,” it is evident that the Bhaktiyoga of which singing the name of the lord is a component, produces a peculiar attachment which passes on to an excessive fellow-feeling. It is also said, “such truthful beingst perceive me to be of pleasing and of benignly smiling—of gratifying and excessively beautiful --forms, with rosy eyes, and talk to me in sweet soothing words. Devotion by the aid of those charming forms and in
* The Deity.
* Bhaktas.
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