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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
ignorance, we cannot see the brightness of light; and when we are in the dark, we entertain doubts and suspicions, and problems keep cropping up again and again. But as soon as our mental eyes are opened, all our distortions will disappear. After that there will be no eagerness or desire to know anything because the truth will be revealed to us when we attain spiritual awakening. What we see with our mental eyes, we see clearly and naturally; and then all our questions are fully answered
By means of discourses we have to enable you to open your mental eyes. With your mental eyes you can visualize the Paramatma lying latent in you. If you open your mental eyes, you will see what you want to see,
If you open your mental eyes you can see in yourself the Samskara or the impulses of countless lives. But you have to put forth hard endeavours to attain that vision. The value of our endeavours lies in our being able to see what is not ordinarily perceptible. We should endeavour to perceive what is not directly perceptible, it is wrong to try to see only what is directly visible.
We should endeavour to acquire the essentials of Dharma which are not perceptible. It is futile and fruitless to endeavour to acquire what is perishable and transitory. We should, on the contrary, try to realize what lies in us. Instead of doing so, people waste their energy in trying to get external objects.
Look into your kitchen. There you will see that the ceiling and the walls are black. Their beauty is eclipsed. In the blackness of smoke, nothing is visible. In the same manner, your soul and your intellect have been blacknened by the smoke of sensuality and the flames of passions like attachment and hatred. Your intelligence is like a light burning in a lantern blackened by smoke. The beauty of your sout has been eclipsed. If you do not wash your vessels for some days, they become rusty and stained. In the same manner, if you do not cleanse your soul by means of austerities, it becomes stained with Karmas.
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