Light Of Life

Author(s): Padmasagarsuri
Publisher: Arunoday Foundation

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SELF-REALISATION
If you acquire a knowledge of this difference your attachments will end and your inner soul will assert itself. Such is the nature of the soul.
As long as you are in the samsar, you feel, "This family is mine; this shop is mine; this home is mine". When the body is injured the soul gets affected but if you try to realise the soul on the basis of Bheda Vijnan, you realise that the contact between the body and the soul is unreal.
If you do not realise this truth you will be deceiving yourself. But your soul will not be affected. It is said in the Bhagavad Gita, "The soul is immortal. It is spotless and pure. It is formless. It is permanent. It cannot be cut into pieces. It cannot be burnt; nor can it perish".
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Mahavir Bhagwan has said that the soul embodies knowledge, faith and character (Jnan, Darshan, and Charitra). The soul has no relationship with any external object. has no relationship with the body also. This is Bheda Vijnan or the knowledge that the body and the soul are different from each other.
THE STATE OF IGNORANCE:
In the state of ignorance, a person thinks that others and other objects belong to him. He does not realize himself. He has attachments and hatred. The flames of hatred burn his life.
You must take a stand on the plane of spirituality and ask yourself; "Who am I?" Why should you try to evaluate the world? One may evaluate and scrutinise all the objects of the world; but one may not evaluate and scrutinise oneself.
A person went to Bombay from his native place; and
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