Light Of Life

Author(s): Padmasagarsuri
Publisher: Arunoday Foundation

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The priest said, "To hell with your questions ! I have tried to inspire faith in you. But you are absolutely devoid of faith and you have taken me away from a prayer-hall and led me to a circus by your scepticism".
The summary of all this is that answers can be given to the questions of only those people who ask questions with a genuine faith and whose questions emerge from the depths of their contemplations. We can provide answers to the questions of those who approach us with a genuine desire to know the answers; with a genuine love for the Paramatma; and with a deep thirst for knowledge. Their thirst can be satisfied and it is natural that their thirst should be satisfied. But if people come to us to display their intellectual abilities; merely with the purpose of arguing for a argument's sake; merely for the fashion of it, we cannot satisfy them and we have no time for such people. They should have the necessary fitness to know the answer. Only then will it be easy for us to enlighten them. Discourses and discussions will be useful to such people.
WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THE ACTION WHICH IS MORAL AND WHICH IS WITHIN MORAL LIMITS?
Let us suppose that there is a coin with you. It has two sides, of course. So also morality and Acharan (activity) are like the two sides of the same coin. Morality is Acharan and Acharan is morality and if we conform to morality it wil be easy to attain Dharma. Morality is said to be the life-giving force to Dharma. It is like the oxygen for the life of Dharma. In fact, according to us morality and action are synonyms, two names for the same thing. They complement each other. They strengthen each other. Sadachar or noble conduct is nothing but manifesting moral values in the form of actions. Morality is not different from noble conduct, or Sadachar. Noble conduct is the life of Dharma because it is the energy that gives life to
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