Light Of Life

Author(s): Padmasagarsuri
Publisher: Arunoday Foundation

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and contentment. Hence, hearing a spiritual discourse is considered to be a supreme spiritual endeavour.
When Aham (Ego) is destroyed the Naham (selflessness) naturally appears. In this state, you do not seek a knowledge of the world; but you seek a knowledge of the inner self.
Only an empty vessel can be filled with some liquid. That which is already full cannot receive any more. So empty your soul of egoism. Discard your desire to show off your greatness and begin to see clearly.
If you go to a doctor and tell him that you are healthy; that you relish food; that you experience hunger; that you digest food; that you have enough energy in your body and that you can do your work properly, the doctor will say; "'If you are healthy, why have you come to me? Only sick people come to me."
If you tell your doctor that your are absolutely healthy, his reply would be, "Then, you may go home."
In the same manner, if you claim that you have been carrying out all your spiritual activities regularly; that you have been carrying out such activities as the Samayik, the Pratikraman, Vandan (saluting the Lord), Darshan (seeing the Lord), Pujan (worshipping the Lord) and that you have been doing deeds of charity and kindness why should you go to the Upashray at all?
If you thus declare that you are perfect and if you thus speak arrogantly how can you be given any spiritual guidance or inspiration?
CONCEAL NOBLE ACTIONS AND REVEAL YOUR SINFUL ACTIONS.
It is said in the Pratikraman Sutra;
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