Book Title: Light Of Soul
Author(s): Motilal Muljibhai Shah
Publisher: Veerchandra Jain Sabha

View full book text
Previous | Next

Page 60
________________ ( 20 ) આ જીવ સંસારના દુ:ખાવડે કરીને દુ:ખી થતા મેહુ રૂપી અંધકારમાં šાં સુધીજ પરિભ્રમણ કરે છે કે ùાં સુધી વિવેકરૂપી સૂર્યના ઉદયવડે કરીને આત્મસ્વરૂપને યથાસ્થિત રીતે જોઈ શકતા નથી. मोहान्धकारें [मोर एव अन्धकारः तस्मिन् ] in the infatuating darkness.: (nom. singular of the passive of the present participle of with to torment) tormented. विवेकार्कमहोदयन [विवेकः एव अर्कः तस्य महोदयेन ] by the rise of the Sun of discrimination. Y [ आत्मनः रूपं ] the nature of innerself. In this world a man, pained at worldly afflictions, gropes in the infatuating darkness so long as he does not realise the true nature of his innerself by the intense lustre of the Sun of spiritual discrimination. Notes; This verse brings out clearly the removal of infatuating darkness by the rise of the Sun of discrimination. The world is full of troubles arising from birth, decrepitude, death, the visitations of direful plagues and famines etc. and the loss of dear objects, relatives and friends. A

Loading...

Page Navigation
1 ... 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130