Mahavira Life and Philosophy

Author(s): Sumeruchand Diwakar Shastri
Publisher: Jain Mitra Mandal

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its mind-upon objects which stupify the self-and hinder its progress towards self realisation.is,
Sometimes the mind is attached towards disagreeable objects and ultimately becomes unhappy. One forgets that according to the universal rule of cause and effect he is reaping the harvest of the seeds in the form of deeds sown by him in the past. At times cruel concentration captures the heart and ope erroneously feels satisfied to see that his mischievous and destructive machinations are bearing desired fruits but ultimately he has to pay the price for his misdeeds after the period of maturity. Thus the soul wapders in the universe according to its deeds. It is most difficult to have control over the mind, change its vicious and pernicious habit and direct it towards the resplendent self. Nature of Self
Every sober thinker preaches about Know Thyself" philosophy, but he is found entangled in such misconceptions about soul which are merely imaginary and far from truth. Reality, corroborated by one's experience consists of the fact that the embodied soul assumes the form of the body, wherein it dwells. Due to its capability of contraction and expansion it contracts or expands according to the small or large body, like the light of a lamp which pervades the place, where the lamp is placed.
The stand, that the soul is not limited to the size of the body, but it is all-pervading for ever,