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Śrīmad's Philosophy of Ātmadharma we propose to study Śrīmad's concept of ātmadharma on the basis of his writings in general and‘Ātmasiddhiśăstra' in particular.
Every living being, human or non-human desires and lives for happiness. He tries his best to be happy and directs all his activities towards acquiring happiness. The famous Acaranga-sutra of Jains in chapter IV entitled Sammattani says, savve pāņā, savve jivā, savve bhuya, savve sattā ----suhasāyā, dukkha-paḍikūlā." It means, "All beings, all lives, all creatures and all existences desire happiness and peace and avoid misery ".
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Like many great prophets of the world, Śrīmad Rajchandra also was very compassionate. He found that everybody was suffering and miserable either physically, mentally or in some way or the other and tried his best to get rid of the suffering and misery, but hardly succeeded in his attempt, in spite of the best of his intentions, efforts and means. The reason for such failure to be happy is that we do not know the root cause of suffering and misery and also do not know the real remedy that can make one happy, at least temporarily, if not permanently.
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