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Jainism : The Cosmic Vision references to these volumes. The verses of Anandghan were his favourite ones and often he would sing them and the reverberations would be heard miles away in forests.
The essence of agams is found reflected in his speeches. He wanted to show the world the path advocated by Bhagwan Mahavira. The path shown by Mahavira had been forgotten and was lost in the welter of dead rituals, creeds and blind adherence to beliefs. People were misled and the real path was invisible to them. Shrimad Rajchandra, therefore, drew attention to Mahavira's agamvani.
He said, “The path of renunciation is the true religion and respose your faith in it." He had abiding faith in agamvani. One who understands the philosophy of Anekant [Doctrine of manifold Predictions) can only understand the heart of Jain philosophy. Atmasiddhishastra was born when the philosophy of Anekant got translated into poetry. It is called the upanishad of atma, the soul.
Some people believed that salvation is not possible through jap, tap, vrat or detachment since they are all physical. Salvation can be attained only through knowledge. Some believed otherwise. Shrimad Said :
त्याग विराग न चित्तमां, थाय न तेने ज्ञान,
अटके त्याग विरागमां, ते भूले निज भान । [One who has no renunciation and non-attachment in mind cannot have knowledge of soul, one who stays satisfied in renunciation and nonattachment and does not have desire for attaining self-realisation he misses the knowledge of own soul, that means having observed renunciation and non-attachment with ignorance he indulges in self pride and honour and does not attain self realisation.) Renunciation and abandonment are necessary to altain
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