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THE QUEST OF LIFE
63 son Vajradanta on the throne, and performing the Tirathmkara tapas, went to Sarvarthasiddhi when he became Ahamindra. Dhanadeva and the eight brothers also became as a result of their virtuous conduct Ahamindras.
THE QUEST OF LIFE
BY
T. L. Vaswani (From the address at the Dayal Bagh, Agra) I come to this beautiful spot in the spirit of a pilgrim. Your I great Leader's love has blessed me : your reflected love has blessed me: I have not deserved it: When was love ever deserved? You all look so cheerful; your faces beam with joy : you are here in an atmosphere that vibrates with love. One of the dreams of my life is to see a spiritual family. Their dream, perhaps, is partly realised here. The Dayal Bagh! What little I have seen of it impresses me much. The Dayal Bagh is a happy family.
I said I was here in the spirit of a pilgrim. In one way or another are we not all pilgrims ? All in search of the solution of life's problem? What is life? Its meaning and value? Its plan and purpose ? As I survey the story of man from the dawn of history, I find that there have been developed different conceptions of life. One of them is the conception that life is a conquest. Out of it grows the view so popular with young men to-day that knowledge is power. Is this a satisfying conception ? Has it not been the root-cause of strife and violence ? Of class-conflicts and aggressive nationalism? Of violence and wars? The world has, again and again, been dominated by this aggressive conception of life. Another conception interprets life in terms of multiplication of desires. It is thought by many that the secret of progress or civilisation is in complexity. May I submit that to multiply desires is to dissipate life's energies? What is needed is concentration.
And the secret of concentration is simplicity. Simplify! I say Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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