Light Of Life

Author(s): Padmasagarsuri
Publisher: Arunoday Foundation

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DHARMA IS A FRIEND :
Therefore, burn all your Kashayas and sins with the fire of Tapas.
Dharma is a friend of the soul. By understanding Dharma you will attain a knowledge of the soul. Dharma enables us to attain a complete knowledge of the soul. Therefore, you must carry out endeavours to attain the Atmatatwa (spiritual realisation) by means of the Dharmatatva.
How is Dharma created? How and from where does it originate? Dharma orginates from Truth; and Truth safeguards Dharma.
COMPASSION AND SPIRITUAL PROGRESS :
How can you realise the sublim virtues of the sou without Dharma ? The utterances of great men abound in compassion. Bhagwan Mahaveer has said with abounding benevolence :
"Compassion gives life.
May all jivas attain spiritual welfare; May none experience anguish at any time".
This is Mahaveer's ideal. "May all jivas get rid of their sins. May all jivas be liberated from their anguish". Such was his compassion. His wish was; "What 1 have attained, all should attain". After he became an omniscient there was no need for him to deliver discourses. But he communicated his messages out of his compassion for others; and out of his desire that all jivas should attain spiritual welfare. He had no need to attain fame in this world.
He delivered his sermons to inspire us to become Paramatmas. If we practise those sublime ideals of the
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