Sacred Philosophy

Author(s): Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: Champat Rai Jain

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immortal substance which survives physical death, passing into fresh surroundings and environments there and then. Whether these conditions are agreeable or undesirable rests entirely with your own self. If you exert in improving yourself, by curbing your desires and animal proclivities and propensities, you will obtain pleasant agreeable conditions and surroundings and ultimately also nirvâna, that is Godhood; but otherwise there can be nothing but brambles and thorns for your lot in your future rebirths. Indifference to Religion would be justified if there were to be no future life for the ego; but that foolish supposition is no longer possible for you. It is certain that the soul is immortal and will find itself in fresh environments when this life shall have come to an end. Will you not, therefore, now take the shaping of your destiny in your own hands, instead of allowing it to be marred and ruined by your indifference and wrong living? The secret of success lies in Renunciation, i.e., the eradictaion of desires. Will you not now justify your claim to be considered a rational being by giving up from this moment the worst form of desire-the tearing off and eating the flesh of your innocent fellow-beings? At least, will you not make a beginning now by giving up shikar (sport) which is sure to lead the soul to the very worst conditions of life in hell? If you under