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Rays of Dharma
no way be paid back.
Guru has a piercing eyesight. He can make out the traits of anger, heights of arrogance, thickets of deception and depths of greed lying within us. He would point out how these defilements do not allow us to make out the true concept of religion and would urge us to develop virtues required for the purpose. We can see the miserable state in which we have been drifting, when the Guru provides us the eyesight to see the truth.
Jain Darshan consists of looking inward so as to come out of all drawbacks. We, however, remain involved in narrow parochial interests. Instead of rising up, we stay confined within the boundary of this or that sect and sub-sect. True religion consists of the wellbeing of the soul. The Lord has therefore said, 'All this time you have roamed outside; now go in and try to know your true nature'.
Let us therefore pray in the presence of the Lord, “Lord, you are so peaceful and tranquil, while I am full of anger; you are the illuminate enlightenment, while I am in the darkness of ignorance; though everyone in the universe worships you, you remain humble, while I remain full of arrogance! Why all this my Lord? You have attained omniscience; how come, I have not!" While thus comparing ourselves with the Lord, our conscience may wake up, and we may feel grateful to all those who have done good to us!
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