Immortality and Joy

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

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The pratibimbas of the Holy Tirthamkas.de-: picting Them in the serene dispassionate attitude of pure equanimity, inspire us with the holiest of thoughts and engender the true spirit of vairagya in our hearts; they also teach us the correct posture foi meditation and dhyana, Consecrated photos of Living Divinity, they are well calculated to awaken the divine in ourselves, inspiring us with confidence in our own souls by the example of the Great Ones whom they represent. For all the Tirtha!nkaras were, at one time, men of flesh and blood like ourselves, aye, and sinful souls too ; but They have destroyed the bondage of Their karmas while we are still involved in it. Jainism is the scientific Path of Perfection, and its first principle is that no results are ever achieved except by one's own exertion The Holy Ones put this great principle into practice and perfected Themselves, attaining to heights of glory beyond the imagination of ordinary men. Pure perfect Knowledge, embracing all the facts of the three worlds-Celestial Realıns, our Own World and the Lower Regions (Patulu, hells and the like.com and of the three times,past present and future, infinite perception, undying, unending, unabating bliss and innumerable other divine qualities find an abode in Their pure soure souls. Death, disease, sorrow and sickness cannot affect Them; They are beyond the reach of ill luck and pain. Those who follow Them attain to Their Greatness and Perfection, and becoming like Them in all respects reacbo