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It is the misfortune of the Matarthi...
The pursuit of the three-fold path removes the timeless faults in the jiva and provides him the true understanding. The jiva, immersed in the mire of activities, has been making many mistakes from the view of the Atma, and that is why the jiva is wandering.
In the practical field of life no mistake can be entertained. So there a person is always alert. Perhaps, a mistake that occurs in miscellaneous works may not raise a major problem. But if a mistake occurs in the eyes of the Society, then one has to bear the brunt of the criticism from the entire Society. Why! Sometimes one may even be osctracised! One has to be very alert so that no such thing occurs.
Well, where there is a fault, the results cannot be true. If you work out a problem in Arithmetic and you do not get the solution right, then you immediately understand that there has been an error in the method of calcualtion, and do it all over again. Similarly to ascertain that the answer is right, you make a cross-verification, and when all is okay, you know you are right. Brothers! One who has arrived at the correct solution, has the correct method, not otherwise. Brothers! All these practical illustrations hold equally good in the spiritual field too.
In spite of having heard the voice of the Tirthankar himself in the Samosarana, this jiva remained unchanged. He had to be born again in this fifth era. Having been born here there were the same miseries of adhi, vyadhi and upadhi. The only reason for this is that there was a fault in the way he pursued the Tirthankar; the method must have been wrong, hence the solution was not right!
Even at present the jiva is repeating the same faults. In spite of gaining the means like the opportunity of a Sadguru, and Satsang, he is making the same mistakes. That is why the goal of the soul is not awakened at all. For this very reason, Srimadji
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