Light Of Life

Author(s): Padmasagarsuri
Publisher: Arunoday Foundation

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realise that we are wrong. This kind of erroneous way of thinking has been coming down to us through generations by the force of time. But we have to accept as right the supreme truth that those ideologies contain. We should realize that the supreme truth always emerges from a relative approach to it or from the Anekanth point of view. All these problems have to be examined only from the relative point of view. Whatever has been thought about all these questions has been thought from the relative point of view. we delve deep into these ideas, what is deemed truth may turn out to be false and what is deemed false may turn out to be the truth. This is a speciality but until now people have been exercising their intellectual potentialities in the wrong manner. They have not exercised their intellectual potentialities in a comprehensive way to realise and visualise the soul.
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They have not endeavoured to realise the point of view of Tatva. The result of this is that we get doubts and we encounter problems in respect of the soul and the dharma and the mind instead of attaining satisfaction goes on entertaining doubts. If we do not satisfy our minds, problems arise. On many occasions such problems arose in the past and therefore, Bhagwan Mahaveer has given the Anekanth or the multi-dimensional point of view.
Once, a priest made a decision before the Emperor. The Emperor declared that no one who spoke falsehood should be allowed to enter his kingdom and if any entered the Kingdom, he should be hanged. The Chief Priest said, "All right, Your Highness, I will come here tomorrow and enter the gates of your palace. Let me see how you will hang me". The next morning, the priest came to the gates of the palace, riding on a horse. A guard asked him. "Where are you coming from?" "I have come from a nearby town" said the priest. "What is the purpose of your coming here ?'' The Priest said, "I am to be hanged". A serious problem arose before the King. The soldier said to the King, "Your
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