Faith Knowledge and Conduct

Author(s): Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: Champat Rai Jain

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THE TRUTH
renunciation, of desire, the general ideas (collectively knowledge) can be freed from the load of matter under whose weight they are choked and smothered, and transformed into gratification-seeking, worry-generating tendencies. Apart from the material adjunet, there can be no tendencies for the soul; they will all become knowledge the instant they are freed from the material impurities by which they are now overwhelmed.
The effect of worry in smothering the natural buoyancy of the soul is worthy of notice. It is not that only big enterprises or objects engender the biggest worries. A small thing-even a strip of cloth no more than two or three inches wide and eighteen inches long termed langoti—may give rise to sufficient worry to upset any one and to mar the manifestation of joy. True joy can, then, only be realized when all the desires are gone, and gone for good, from the heart. This is tantamount to saying that those who are completely rid of the companionship of matter enjoy, uninterruptedly and without effort, the free-functioning de-light of every type of idea, no longer smothered by the influence of desire or worry or matter!
Joy, like everything else that pertains to the nature of spirit, is a simple, that is to say, an uncompound state. It is not made up of parts, nor composed of particles of matter or some other kind of material. No parts or particles are thinkable in connection with it.