Manava Dharma

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

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MANAV DHARMA / 13 you have become so rich and engrossed with highest virtues, that all the Heavenly Indras, or Chakravarty kings and great people bow their heads to you in complete reverence. You are the possessor of an Eternal Bliss or light. All, the sun, the moon, the stars and other alluminating objects of the world, are obstructed by one or the other forces, but you are having such a Divine Light that can never be obstructed or suppressed by any other force or object and which is ever lasting illumination. You are completely free or devoid of worldly sins and passions, hence your are known as VEETRAGI. No one is good or bad in your thinking or in your Consideration, but all are contemplating or moving aroud, their own mental thinking or consideration - hence all are good and noble. You are completely purified i.e. there is no adulteration of any worldly ideas and passions in your deep meditation. You are Perfect and Absolute () what is to be achieved has already been achieved by you. You are fully aware about the worldly happenings of the past, the present and the future, hence you are known as Omniscient ( Sarvagya) Your soul has long been embodied with the attributes relating to soul since times immemorial and its celestial light will continue to illuminate for infinite times; Hence there is no beginning, no middle and no end of this celestial journey. Your Lordship has explained that you have gradually made your soul perfect and liberated from all wordly attachments and feelings of love, affection, pain and anxiety. grief and sorrow. Now as such, every living being, with ones own efforts, can become a God in real sense, which is all Absolute Blissful Himself. Hence your regime is benevolent for all and it is welcomed by them all at the inner core of their heart' That is why you are known as Perfect Preacher or as fed (Sarva-Hitkari) and so on. In this way your Highest-Self is prayed and worshipped by all civilised and cultured Living beings."
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Now there can be a doubt or a question. When the Highest Self is VEETRAGI; how and why does he deliver His sermons and preachings to all beings for a better path, without having any cult or desire at his own end. This is explained as follows in next verse
अनात्मार्थं विना रागैः शास्ता शास्ति सतो हितम् । ध्वनन् शिल्पिकर स्पर्शान्मुरजः किमपेक्षते ॥८॥ Explanation :
Just as a drum gives out sound in consequence of the contact of the drummer's hand, but without any desire on its own part sc does the Teacher reveal the Truth without any personal motive 'of his own