Mysteries of Life and Eternal Bliss

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

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thetic to the correct living. By using such drugs, narcotics and other things, which create mental absenteism, for some time, finally bring strong passions and then sorrow, suffering, deseases, pain etc, in its chain. Instead of following the Hippy Cult, people, who are in the search of real happiness and permanent peace, should practice meditation, concentration and absorption in Self-their own Self-the Pure Soul, as explained above. For peace, happiness and Bliss there is no other alternative except Samadhi (Self-absorption or meditation in the Self)—the only Right and Correct path to lead any one to perennial peace and real happiness. Hippies, who have become fed up with the life of affluence and sameness, and have left their home in the search of happiness, should and must leave the habit of taking narkotics; and instead should use proper food and drink and practice meditation, in right earnest, concentrating their fully awake mind on some bright object-the best is the Inner Self. Only this can redeam them from their morass, moroseness and monotony of life-from which they have fled. If they take to the "Three Jewels" it will be best for them. Indisciplined life, vagabondism