Mysteries of Life and Eternal Bliss

Author(s): Anantprasad Jain
Publisher: Tirthakar Mahavir Smruti Kendra Samiti Lakhnou UP

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Mahatma Gadhi was in the line of the great Tirthankaras and may become Tirthankara in his next birth. I can not say if any politician or statesman or thinker of the present day, confirms to the ideal of Vishnuship or the perfect man, as said above.
Dealing in this way we find that, from time to time, the shape and gestures of idols changed, in India and different parts of India, according to the requirements of the particular time and region. The idols of different deities mean nothing else than that the citizens have to make those idols their own ideals to be acieved by themselves in power, capacity, knowledge etc. If a book is written on this on the basis of research, without religious prejudices, then it will be found out that with more vigorous external attacks more horried figures of these idols came into being to make the citizens, of a particular clan, region or place, more ferocious, war loving and dashing etc. Later on these very idols did not mean a guide as an ideal but became gods and deities for worship with the consequent result of demoralisation and loss of faith and confidence in the Self or one's Ownself. The citizens worshiped these