Mind Your Mind

Author(s): Udayvallabhvijay
Publisher: Pragna Prabodh Parivar

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SMILE GLOWS, HAPPINESS FLOWS
The tripadi given by Bhagwan Mahavir to his ganadharas (apostles) is like an alchemy that guarantees transmutation of any substance into gold. This gold producing chemical is amazing. The tripadi has given words the form of aagams, the supreme scriptures. An alchemy does not produce new metal, but can transmute base metals into gold.
The compassionate Lord saw the entire universe in his infinite knowledge and realized the pain and sufferings of all living beings. He saw ignorance to be the root cause of all sufferings. To dispel the darkness of ignorance and spread the knowledge of light, He gave the TRIPADI.
The gandhars absorbed Lord Mahavir's flow of thoughts and knowledge and transformed them into words and scriptures in the form of Aagams, which became a connecting bridge between the Lord and all beings. The Aagams act as a guiding force to liberate the soul from the bondage of karmas. Thus the Aagams are said to be the most valuable scriptures for self purification and attainment of ultimate objective of internal infinite happiness. A beautiful gift created from the fascinating aagams, is the revered Aachaarang Sutra. The way treasure trove of thoughts that are reflected in every sentence of this holy scripture, you may feel like calling it Vicharang sutra also.
The Aacharaang Sutra has used a beautiful shloka, (a couplet), to depict the state of the universe. If you want to portray the meaning of this shloka "", then you have to present the
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