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overly attached to body and not seeing it for what it is. When no one offered the monks bhiksha on a particular day, they remained in a state of equanimity, if they had developed the proper attitude toward the body. Then they were able to transmute hunger pangs into the positive spiritual practice of fasting.
Munishree learned that the detached attitude the monks developed towards the body did not diminish their appreciation for it. He meditated on the Jain view of life as an everevolving consciousness. He saw from the tiniest life form to the most developed that the forms were becoming equipped with more and more refined means with which to sense the world. From one-sensed beings whose only sense was that of touch to six-sensed beings whose senses include touching, tasting, smelling, seeing, hearing, and thinking, consciousness has been evolving. He marveled and rejoiced at the positive karmic process which led their souls to coming into human birth.
Munishree began to realize that from the day he asked, "Who am I”, from that day, his evolution into higher consciousness began. He was continually reminded that the human body was the best and only vehicle to take him to the pinnacle of evolution. He had found the right path to SelfRealization. From here his genuine humanhood was developing. From here his inner perfection would reveal itself.
In the next six months, he and his teacher and fellow companions were planning to walk through the villages of the states of Maharashtra and Gujarat on their way to the city of Ahmedabad. From there they were to make their way to Pālitānā to rejoin Achārya Shree Shree Anand Sagarsuriji, their Gurudev Master.
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