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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
the wall of your ego is broken. You should feel, I am nothing; I have nothing". This is the plane of the: Naham (Not I).
If we leave the plane of Ahams (egoy and enter the: plane of Naham (Not 1) we will negate the world and rise to the level of the Paramatma.
"Oh Paramatma ! May everything prove congenial to me !" If you entertain this lofty thought, then you will realize yourself ; your mental distortion will disappear ; and what is concealed behind the wall of the ego wili not be new to you The egoistic feeling, "I am a mighty scholar. I know everything" is certainly detrimental to your spiritual progress,
If food is not properly and fully digested. how cam we get strength and energy? If we merely eat food, we get only mental satisfaction; but a proper digestion of food is essential if it should give us strength.
Until to-day, the plane of egoism has been a plane of ostentation and exhibition.
Where there is an exhibitions, there is no vision. If you try to show off yourself you can never see yourself. Till now, we have been only showing off ourselves.
If you do not reveal your malady how can you get a remedy ? If you make endeavours to attain health, they will help you to attain health,
When a person is suffering from high fever, how can he relish delicious food ? If some one insists with affection. "This food is your favourite. It is very delicious. Eat a little", can the sick man eat it and enjoy it? Let us suppose that he eats it inspite of his illness. He will at once vomit it. It cannot be digested.
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