Immortality and Joy

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

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nirvana at the top of the universe, to reside there, for ever, in the undisturbed enjoyment of infinite peace, tranquillity and joy, together with all those other attributes--omniscience, immortality and the like-which people associate with their Gods. For divinity is verily the real nature of the soul, though it is defiled and vitiated by the forces engendered by individual karmas in the case of unredeemed beings. Jainism is the creed which enables the soul to destroy the bondage of karma, and the Tirthamkaras are the greatest friends and well-wishers of jivas souls) whom They take by the hand, as it were, and carry across the turbulent sea of samsara, proviced They are allowed to do so. Who, then can describe the glory of the system, what language is competent to paint the Greatness of the Masters that enable the soul to free itself from its inauspicious bondage of karmas, that im part it strength and courage to defy such powerful foes as sickness and ceath,that enable it to attain to unsurpassed splendour-in short, that turn puny, miserable mortals into omniscient blissful Gods, the object of worship and adoration for all times to come? As said in the Ratna Karanda Sravaracharu:
..“Those wlose hearts have been purified by Right Faith become the Lords of Splendour, Energy, Wisdom, Prowess, Fame, Wealth, Victory and Greatness; they are born in high