Light Of Life

Author(s): Padmasagarsuri
Publisher: Arunoday Foundation

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that many people may derive benefit from the answers that one person gets.
The question constitutes such a subject that it will give satisfaction only if it is asked with a genuine intellectual curiosity and on the basis of genuine faith. If questions are posed only as an attempt at show and mere ostentation, they will not bring any self-realisation. Such questions do not bring any satisfaction to the soul; and the answers will not possess any sweetness. The questions should always be asked with intellectual curiosity; and with this desire: "I must find out the answer to it. I must fully understand it''; and the answer to your question will emerge naturally from those depths of your consciousness front which your question emerged. The solution will naturally arise from your concentration on the matter and from the sincerity with which you contemplate on the question. Sometimes, the sea is convulsed into rolling, roaring and rising waves by cyclones and tempests; and in the same manner, the samsar agitates our souls and produces in them terrific and tumultous convulsions and consequently, waves arise in our souls. It is those waves that assume the form of spiritual questions But when the waves subside and when the water grows calm and still, you can look into the serene water and see your clear reflection in it. Similarly, if your questions arise from the serene depths of your soul, the solutions appear like reflections on the serene and still waters of the soul. Answers arise from the depths; not from the tumult of the soul.
Bhagavan Mahaveer, Lord Krishna and Shri Rama did not pose questions to others They obtained solutions to their questions from the depths of their own spirituality from which their questions emerged. This is called in philosophy ''Self-movement" They created a profound agitation in themselves and by means of a restraint exercised on their intellectual propensities and by means of purifying their cun minds and hearts, they completed their endeavours
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