Light Of Life

Author(s): Padmasagarsuri
Publisher: Arunoday Foundation

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THE EFFECT OF A DISCOURSE
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Bhagwan Mahavir expounded his doctrine of selfrealisation in his discourses with love and with the iofty feeling of benevolence.
If one leads one's life in accordance with the ideals expounded in those discourses, one's soul also attains development; and to such a man, Moksha is not far away.
SELF-REALISATION
The Paramatma's discourses are absolutely simple and plain. If those discourses are properly understood and acted upon, our souls attain perfection and we attain Siddhi.
The Bhagwan never said: "Felicity is my monopoly. Only I should be happy and others may be unhappy'y The purpose of his discourses was not to establish an' tradition or sect. It did not also have the purpose of increasing the number of his followers. His auspicious aspiration was that every jiva should benefit from the light he had attained by means of long years of painful austerities and spiritual endeavours. He showed the way to attain the status of a Paramatma (the supreme state). He explained the meaning of jiva and jagat (the world). He showed the way to render our life splendid by means of self-realisation.
You will natuarally attain a knowledge of the self if