Rajgeeta English Translation and Comentry on Atmasiddhi Shastra

Author(s): Shrimad Rajchandra, Manu Doshi
Publisher: Shrimad Rajchandra Mission

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their minds exercise too much force, the consciousness may fail to exercise enough countervailing spiritual force to withstand it and may remain subservient to it. The mind is thus primarily responsible for the acquisition of Karma. The emphasis of spiritual pursuit therefore rests on overcoming the mental defilement regardless of actual physical acts.
The anecdote of King Prasenjit is relevant here. On listening to Lord Mahavir's discourse, he gained detachment towards the worldly life. Hence entrusting the interests of his young son to his trusted counselors, he became a monk. In that capacity while he was once meditating, he happened to overhear from the passers-by that he was a fool to entrust the interests of his son to his counselors, who were conspiring to kill the boy and usurp the throne. Thereby Prasenjit got concerned about the well being of his son. While thinking about the disloyalty of those counselors, he got so agitated that he forgot his monastic state and became mentally engrossed in fighting against those supposed conspirators. His rage against them continued to rise and ultimately it reached a stage that would have led him to the infernal abode, if he had died at that moment. Fortunately he became conscious of it in time and turned back from the evil thoughts. He overcame the mental defilement with acute repentance and attained the omniscience. This story emphasizes how the mental state prevailing from time to time makes the difference.
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