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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
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perfect? When shall I attain the status of paramātmā ? When shall I be equal to Paramātmā? When can I attain endless, enduring, ineffable peace? When can I get out of this eternal cycle of birth, old age and death? When can I become all-knowing and all-seeing? When can. I rise above passions and attachments, above victories and defeats, above commendation and condemnation and above the ever-changing mental propensities?
The desires underlying these questions lead man on the path of salvation, inspire him to pursue that path and impel him never to swerve from that path. The state of Moksha or salvation will not be far from you if you can realise the nature of your soul, if you have faith in the potentialities of your soul, if you carry out your activities with emotional and intellectual equanimity and if you acquire the qualities of simplicity, purity and sublimity of ihought, cmotion and action. As opposed to this selicity of salvation there is the perplexity of life that can madden you if you do not cultivate those virtues. If you are discontented with your worldly possessions, if you are entandled in the meshes of worldy desires, delusions, attachments, illusions, intellectual and emotional intoxications and love of luxury and if you die when you are thus entangled in those vices, your death will be but 'an advance booking of a eat' in a train which goes on travelling through the endless cycle of birth, old age and death. It is well said that one should become godly and worship god. “Become a god and worship a God.”: What is the inner meaning of this statement? The inner meaning of this statement is when we go to worship God or to pray to God, in temples, mosques, churches and Gurudwars, we should completely free ourselves from all desires and attachments of life and spiritually attain to a state of proximity to divinity.
It is said in the Bhagavad Gita: यो यच्छद्धः स एव सः ।।
Yo yacchhraddhah sa eva sah. "A man will be what he desires to be."
An English philosopher says, “Tell me what you desire to become and I will tell you what you will be
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