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The mumukshu is always alert...
While devotedly pursuing the three gems, the virtues in a mumukshu jiva are steadily increasing. As aradhana progresses gradually, the infinite virtues in the atma appear one after the other.
Mumukshuta is the unquenchable thirst for moksa. Srimadji says, while explaining which characteristics have to be first present in a jiva -
cent, puifa, 2791, YAIT, ET, TT, TT;
Ata uz fad, Te HERE gaire .....836
The dharma of Jineshwar is daya-compassion based. Daya has been called the root of dharma. dharma is only there where there is daya. Several people mistake daya for attachment and treat it as to be avoided. They are in a great delusion. The path of the Jineshwar is itself in the form of daya. One who claims to be a follower of Jineshwar and rejects daya, could be anybody else's follower but is certainly not a follower of Jineshwar. Srimadji also says -
धर्म तत्त्व जो पूछ्युं मने तो संभळावू स्नेहे तने; जे सिद्धांत सकळनो सार, सर्वमान्य सहुने हितकार । भाख्युं भाषणमां भगवान, धर्म न बीजो दया समान; अभयदान साथे संतोष, द्यो प्राणीने दळवा दोष । सत्य शील ने सघळां दान, दया होईने रह्यां प्रमाण;
Gent TET at I thi Thet, fahr tref fahut te ha ....
In these verses, Srimadji explains in very simple terms that dayadharma is the greatest of all dharmas. Where there is daya, it is followed by other characteristics. But if daya is lacking then as darkness pervades in the absence of the sun, or as it is not possible to see even one ray of the sun without its presence, without daya, the characteristics of truth, honour etc. cannot remain in a life.
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