Golden Steps To Salvation

Author(s): Padmasagarsuri
Publisher: Arunoday Foundation

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The eyes said, "We show the way to the body. We provide entertainment to people by enabling them to see beautiful sights, movies, pictures on the T.V. screens, beautiful paintings etc. In our absence people would become blind. People would become helpless creatures depending on others' pity for protection and so our usefulness is greater than that of any other organ."
The cars said, "If we did not exist, people would be deaf. It is because of our help that people can lear music, discourses, speeches and stories. That is why people decorate us with golden jewels.”
The mind said, “All of you perform your respective duties only according to my directions. The sorrows and joys resulting from your actions are experienced by me. If I am not well people become mad. It is only because God realised this fact that he placed me at the highest place in the body.”
At the end Atmārāma (the Self) sent them a notice saying that they should stop their futile discussion and keep doing their duties and if they did not obey his orders he would go away from them. This was the ultimatum given by the Self (or Atmārāma).
The various organs of the body immediately called for an emergency meeting and tried to understand the notice conveyed to them. They thought that if Ātmarāma (the Self) went away from the body, they would have no value or usefulness. People would not like to keep them in their house. They would take them to a cemetery and burn them. At the end, they passed a un. animous resolution and sent it to Atmärāma saying that from that day they would not feel proud and that they would abide by his orders.
Ātmārāma felt happy to hear this. From that day, all the organs of the body have been living together with a spirit of co-operation, helping one another. If a thorn pierces the foot, the eve sees it, and the hand removes it with a needle. After the thorn is removed all the organs say that they feel relieved and happy, and that they