Manava Dharma

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

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MANAV DHARMA / 31 now can it be seen or tested or examined by any one? Because the inner-self or heart is not only with us but it is possessed by others also, which is connected through a wireless. If has been observed in many cases that when ever we recall our nearest and dearest, suddenly his image is reflected before our eyes or he presents himself before us, and there we used to tell that. "Think of the devil and the devil is there" - definitely a long life has been blessed to him, because as soon as we remembered him, his figure appeared before us. Sometimes, without any particular disease in the body, a man gets hiccup (f) HICHAKI, we believe that our nearest or dearest is remembering us. Besides all these, our heart is connected with our outer actions and our feelings of love will be reflected in our routine Language and his image will definitely appear before our eyes. This remark that "feet recogmise the shoes and eyes visualise the love and affection," has been said very wisely.
It is easy for us to recognise our own shoes even in the darkness, why? because of our own shoes, the feet are habitual in putting on and they exactly fit in our feet rather than those of others. Similarly, the man, infront of us, whether loves us or not, can very easily be seen by penetrating in his eyes" The whole meaning is to say that the true and the false love can be recognised easily and in the verification of this statement, the author is narrating a small incident.
Once there were two women. One was the wife of elder brother, known as JITHANI and the second was the wife of younger brother, known as DEVRANI. Devrani gave birth to a child and Jithani was issueless and there was no hope to get an issue. Hence she planned wickedly to capture the child of the Devrani. She started to exibit a feeling of love and affection with the child of Devrani, keeping him with herself and giving him the eatable articles. Devrani was of very simple and innocent nature. She thought "What difference does it make if the child remains with the Jithani instead of me."? After some period, the child began to forget his own mother and considered Jethani as his real mother. On some excuse or inference, the elder one decided to start quarrelling with the younger one and stopped talking with each other. The younger one, realisaig the evil intention of the elder one observed that it was now useless to leave the child with the elder one. She made her son to understand the situation of the elder, who had planned for separation, Jithani was highly annoyed and remarked. "How can you say that this child is yours, who is born to her with a great luck and efforts." ? When she had brought him up with a lot of difficulties, how could this child be given to Devrani ? The younger one, being fully helpless decided to approach the government or Court of Law. In the absence