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JUNE 2015
PRABUDDH JEEVAN
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life, relationships, home, travels, everything seems like and docks within us , let us all who are as adrift as me, a blur.- they all begin to blur. I feel i am in a perpetual try and go the Zen way-to make each moment count, quest- searching, wandering waiting for something to make each moment into a purpose. happen to me, a miracle or some divine intervention, "When we are able to be in the moment, we no something that will change everything, that all the longer feel compelled to watch the clock. pieces will fall in place suddenly and complete the Whatever your work might be, bring all of something that my whole life has been leading up to yourself to it. When you are fully present, you But that rarely happens... or atleast does not happen may find that your labor is no longer a burden. soon for sure.
Wood is chopped. Water is carried. Life happens." It could be deep passionate love for something or
Reshma Jain someone, it could be a deep committed cause or the strums of a violin, an art form or a gourmet chef..
The Narrators But till that all consuming focused purpose finds a way
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Some of the Enlightend-Beings or the sages in their explain its working (419fid-Afrl) is the task of an Ensacred vision & sanctintified wisdom have revealed the lightened-Being whose inherent abidance is in pure size, shape, area etc. of the universe, with the regions self but embodied in physical body (like any humanthere-in, where living beings exist. The whole universe being) To live according the set-rules of the univeris a great cosmic mechanism with its own self-propel- sal power (49 Reid-Afrt), to play ones own designated ling force, uncreated & uncontrolled by any super-im- role as a part of mechanism under the able-guidance posed outside force. Its unitary character can be prop- of Sat-guru is the task of an Aspirant or Seeker, so erly identified only by recognising & giving proper place that universal-machine can work properly. to each of its parts. Broadly the parts are "Jiva" &
The above doctrine, expounded by the omniscients, "Ajiva", which are eternal, uncreated, unending & per
cannot be carried out successfully without accepting petual. There is a constant & continuous interplay be
total non violence. True non-violence is not the prodtween "Jiva" & "Ajiva" elements, requesting in bewil
uct of an intellectual understanding alone but by dering cosmic manifestations in material, psychic &
abidance in pure self while carrying out worldly duties emotional spheres around us.
as destined. One cannot be non-violent unless one unThe cosmic manifestations between jiva & ajiva lead derstands the real nature of cause & effect' syndrome. to the mechanism of transmigration & rebirth. In other This leads us to the doctrine of Sydvad' or the theory words change, but not total annihilation (destruction) of relativity. This theory in short expounds that every of the jiva & ajiva elements, which the modern physi- judgement is relatively true, because it depends upon cal-science says that matter is undestructible. The relations to the specific circumstances. How to comtheory of Karma' is the natural deduction of cause & prehend the True-Reality? Sages say that your salvaeffect' syndrome.
tion is in your own hands. You are your own master, If the self-propelling mechanism of the universe
the shaper of your destiny. If pleasures & pains are the
result fo your own actions under influence of ignorance (as above) is accepted, it will not be difficult to con
of self, the way of salvation is also in your own hands, clude that every part from smallest to biggest, has to play its role. In short you cannot do anything to de
ofcourse under loving care of a 'Sat-guru.' stroy even a nut or a bolt of the universal mechanism, without damaging it as well as your own-self.
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