Manava Dharma

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

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MANAV DHARMA / 53 growth or incerease, the fruition of Right knowledge or Right conduct without acquiring the Right faith in the first instance.
Discrimination leads to Right faith in the first instance and Right faith then transforms knowledge in to Right knowledge and leads to Right conduct. Description :
Just as the origination, continuance, growth, along with to provide shadow and fruits, of a tree depends upon its seed and as the seed is sown so the tree will grow with its shadow and fruits accordingly and further if the seed is decayed, the tree will not flourish, it will be difficult to grow and increase and give fruits, So is the case with the Right Faith. Our thoughts and efforts depend mainly on our faith, we have. If our faith is not positive then all our thoughts, deeds and actions will be dirty, uncreative and non-constructive. And if the faith is right then it takes no time in transforming thoughts and actions in right and successful direction. Meaning to say is that abandonment with selfish motives, rites and rituals with a view of wordly prosperity can not prove as helpful and beneficial in the enlightenment of soul. Till our belief exists that these worldly acquisitions and property are at the root of our pleasures and happiness or troubles; and even then if we. adopt the path of abandonment or slight renunciation, then all that will be an out wardly abandonment, relating to only physical feeling and not with inner-self feeling and frankly speaking, such abandonment can not lead. us to the right path of renunciation. This abandonment is equally good or bad like the abandonment of a sick man, who remains hungry on the advice of a physician, but whenever he gets a chance he will forget the vow of abandonment and will start taking and eating all such things for which the physician has forbidden. The result will be more deterioration of health for a sick man and more deterioration of will power for a man practsing abandonment. It would have been better for such a man to think all worldly prosperity and attachment as unuseful and a hinderance in the way of renunciation, though due to some worldly bondage, he may not be in a position to abandon all immediatly. The moment, he is free from this worldly bondage, he will disregard them and renounce them with in no time, with a determination not to accept these worldly atiachments in future. It has very rightly been said below
गृहस्थो मोक्ष मार्गस्थो निर्मोहो (नवैत्र) नैव मोहवान् । अनगारो गृही श्रेयान् निर्मोहो मोहिना मुनेः ॥३३॥
Explanation :
The house holder, whose interior is illumined with Right faith, follows the "PATH", but the Ascetic involved in wrong beliefs is no