Jain Shwetambar Conference Herald 1913 Book 09

Author(s): Mohanlal Dalichand Desai
Publisher: Jain Shwetambar Conference

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nothing that is permanently his. He looks on the faces of his once dearly beloved friends and relations but they too fail to entertain or divert him. The grim truth is ever present to his mind that they are not his " self” and all that is not inalienably his own, ha has learnt to discard as foreign. The streams of joy are now fast drying up The various objects of senses which yielded him pleasure appear as shadows when seen through the perspective of discrimination. His out-look on the world changes altogether. In the swarming multitudes of people and things he only perceives a maniacal rush of phantoms and frightful dance of shadows. "Why these people madly run after things which they can hold only on a brief tenure ?” he asks of himself. He turns gloomy and despondent and at times remonstrates with himself why at all he came in for a frame of mind which is not shared by his fellow beings. The horrible vaccum left in his heart by the exist of lovely pictures of yore is unfilled. The grandeur and bliss of spiritual consciousness has not yet dawned upon him. He has not grown into the realizatiou or even recognition of his essential nature. The rays of Supreme Bliss has not yet filtered into his heart and filled the void so oppressing to him. He is Discontented; and we shall christen this feeling as “ Divine Discontent.. –The forerunner of Bliss Eternal; the harbinger of coming Illumination-the herald of spiritual Dawn. This discontent is devoutly to be wished for by all aspirants to the Absolute Bliss-Earnest, sincere, genuine discontent with the world and its contents draws from the remotest corners of the Globe the Master who shows the path and firmly plants his feet on it. He guides him untill the last remnant of Sansar has dropped from him-until there is no vestige left of it in him. The world is full of Wise Ones and illumined Beings if man but really feels this Divine Discontent in the heart of his heart. But he is generally speaking over insincere and only desirous of passing current as a religious man in the estimation of his fellows. Such men can only pick up crusts of dry bread from the Table of Knowledge to the merriment of Wise Ones. Reader! ask yourself what position you would elect to grace,