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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
and we should put our ideals into practice.
Our mental cravings may cause loss to us in our external life or they may not. But they are sure to cause severe loss to our inner life.
Mahaveer was in the stage called chadmastha ( in the human body). He used to remain silent. Until he attained spiritual perfection he carried out his spiritual endeavours in silence.
Silence brings stillness to the mind. Where there is stillness or firmness there is spiritual development. Later, that will lead to perfection.
Patanjali says, "Achieving mental firmness and spiritual firmness is the supreme yoga." Acharya Hemachandra Suriswarji says, "Yoga leads to Moksha."
Yoga means achieving firmness of the mind and the soul. Sadhanas or spiritual endeavours constitute a quality of the soul.
Pratikraman is a Sadhana. Pratikraman means a retreat. It means retreating from sinful thoughts and activities.
The man who achieves equanimity attains spiritual serenity. In such a case, mental conflicts disappear. In the Pratikraman he says "Tanenam. Monenam." It means that we should carry out the spiritual activity of achieving firmness in respect of the soul, the intellect, the substancə and the attitude and that we should carry out sadhana in silence, for we should attain firmness and then we should achieve silence and enter the state of meditation.
Dhyana or meditation means accepting an objective and concentrating upon it.
Silence can achieve all things. It is the life of Dharma.
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