Manava Dharma

Author(s): Bhurmal Shastri, Nihalchandra Jain
Publisher: Aacharya Gyansagar Vagartha Vimarsha Kendra

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12/ MANAV DHARMA
slightest impurity. Similarly by being associated with the great noble souls, or saints, by being in their company and by practising penance and by keeping the mind with pure thoughts and by avoidingoutwardly tempatations, one can uplift his soul and can make it absolulety pure and faultless. By doing so all our aversions and attachments can be removed. Description :
Just as the gold is purifled by the combination of ammonium chloride and borax while heating it well on the fire in the same way, in the association with Noble and true Souls we can also make our like sublime. pure and Idealistic in all its essence and with all its attributes of conciousness, without being affected by external agency, power or will. By doing and practising this. our feelings on conceit and hatred can be removed or made to disappear or vanish. By doing so this soul can become a super-soul, Pure soul or God. For example the pieces of iron or iron itself is converted into pure gold when iron comes in contact and touch with 'Parasmani' and so is the case of Neem Tree, which, while growing up near the sandle wood tree, adopts the very same fragrance and splendour of a sandlewood tree. And in the same manner the soul attains the highest purity and supreme Eternal Bliss, when it is liberated from the worldly attachments and acquisitions. Then the super-soul or 'Paramatma is called by various names as described in the next verse.
परमेष्ठी परम् ज्योतिर्विरागो विमल: कृती । सर्वज्ञोऽनादि-मध्यान्तः सार्वः शास्तोपलाल्यते ॥७॥
Explanation :
He, who is the enjoyer of the highest status, who is of unsurpassed splendour, who is free from all kinds of desires and impurities of sin, who is endowed with omniscience and devoid of beginning, end, and middle (i.e. personal aims and ambitions) and who is a friend of all kinds of living beings - such a teacher is called “Hitopadeshi" (feriyasît)' a speaker or a teacher who imparts a useful lesson for
all.
Description :
Oh Lord ! "You are ‘PriARICÍA HI 791: 7174745 47 Reet no aifa THOT" The meaning to say is that this soul, sorrounded by the worldly affairs and attachments, considers itself the wealthiest or the richest of all, by accumulating the external objects of the world. But Oh Lord ! by kicking the worldly objects in such a manner,