Light Of Life

Author(s): Padmasagarsuri
Publisher: Arunoday Foundation

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The man said, "Yes, my lord ! It happened once. We were all at home. Suddenly fire broke out and we at once became united forgetting our differences."
Dharma and Knowledge were separated. Each was facing a problem, Dharma said, "I can move." Knowledge said, "I can give brightness". Dharma said, "Sit upon my shoulders'. Knowledge sat upon the shoulders of Dharma. It gave light to Dharma. The two thus escaped from the burning forest.
In the great granta TATVARTHADHIGAM, Upaswathi says,
"Moksha can be attained only with Knowledge and action". Knowledge and Dharma cannot exist separately. One has to move in the light of the other. AT THE PRE SENT THOSE WHO HAVE ACQUIRED WEALTH BY UNLAWFUL AND IMMORAL METHODS AND WHO ARE INFATUATED WITH PHYSICAL PLEASURES HAVE BECOME EXAMPLES TO OTHERS". WHY SHOULD WE NOT TAKE THEIR EXAMPLE ?
We cannot answer the questions of those who neglect Brahma (the spiritual reality) and are fascinated by wordly things. We can give answers to the questions of those who look into themselves and try to realize themselves. Crowds throng cinema theatres; but here we have an audience fit though few. Here we have a filtered audience. We should not care to take interest in the affairs of the world. We should see what we are doing; not what the world is doing.
Once there were four friends. They together set off to Puna. They also bought tickets. They were very fond of drinking liquors. They drank heavily forgetting themselves in their intoxication. They began moving towards the station. They had to go to V.T. but they went to Bombay Central and sat in a train which was going to Gujarat. The train began speeding. At Dadar, the ticket-inspector came to check tickets and he came to them. He saw the ticket of one of them. That was for Puna. He said that
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