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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
www.kobatirth.org
Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
INTRODUCTION.
nocently playful and smiling glances and pleasing speech, robs them of their mind and soul, and leads them on unto salvation, against their will."* From which you see that salvation is a state of fellowship with the Deity and not absorption; therefore has the venerable Kapila said: “devotion is superior to sanctification ;" and hence, is the singing of the name of the lord, in the Kali Yuga, no secondary means towards the attainment of the great object of human existence, and the source of heavenly love.
Act.-Sir, your words are most wonderful. Th: S'ástras ordain that the name of the Lord leads to absorption and you maintain the contrary. We have heard," by reciting the name of Náráyana the dying Ajámila obtained mukti.”
MANAGER (smiling).—Mukti here means fellowship, for in that very place it is said: “He immediately assumed the shape of the companions of the deity.” This doctrine of Krishna Chaitanya overthrows all others. All righteous men adopt this doctrine. Even Kali himself is blessed by this incarnation.
Act.--How so? Has not Kali been reviled thus :
“In the Iron age, O king, men, becoming of heretical and divided opinions, worship not the great Lord of the Universe, the Almighty Achyuta, on whose lotus feet bow dowu the lords of the three regions."
MANAGER.---That refers to some other Kali in which there has been no incarnation of Krishna. Otherwise,
“In mercy to those faithful beings who will be born in the Kali Yuga, He displayed his holy career, which assu:ges pain and grief and dissolves darkness.
“O king, in the Kali Yuga mankind will be the followers of Náráyana; men of the Satya and other ages will long to be born in the Kali Yuga.”
And such other verses, prophecying the incarnation of Chaitanya, would be inconsistent.
* तैर्दनीयावयवैरदारविलासहासेक्षितवामसक्तः । salvat S KIY wfitfawarafahrpi ga!
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