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faina Auswer to Three Questions
shown by different Günasthanas in Jaina Philosophy. Though the body is present the highest state of knowledge (Kevala Jhaña) is experieaced. Then on the annihilation of Āyuşya Karma, the Union of the body with the soul comes to end for ever. He becomes the Siddhin the lio: rated and perfected soul, God,
27. This is how, when and by what means one realises and becomes God himself. To summarise the reply to the second part of the second question it can be said that the aspirant must first have correct knowledge and faith about his Trikali Suddha Atmatattva - the ever-existing pure sell; then he must turn his conscious attentiveness towards it, withdrawing it from other substances and from his own thought-activity, as a result of which he realises and becomes God himself,
28. The third question is : Is it absolutely necessary to have a prea. cher (Guru) for realisation of God ? To understand the reply to this ques tion in its proper perspectives, let us take an illustration.
You happened to hear the discourse of self-realised person whom we refer here as a Santa. When you reach home, you have an urge to meet him and to have his Daršana again. But you do not know his where-abouts in Bombay. You make inquiry from some persons on telephone without any success. The urge in you increases as the days pass. From old news. papers, you find the names of the organisers of that discourses on that day, You contact one of them, who knows the place where the Santa has put up and to your immense happiness, you get not only the whereabout of the Santa but a sketch showing the road or roads leading to the place, from him. You immediately take your car and go to that place, with the help of the information and the sketch, given to you by the organiser. You come out of the car on reaching there, eater the house aod meet the Santa and have his Darśana, resulting in fullest satisfaction to you.
29. You feel grateful to the organiser because had he not given you the information and the sketch to reach the place, you would not have heen able to reach there, to have darśana of the Santa and to have the satisfaction you had. But at the same time, have you not gone there in your car, using yourself the information and the sketch, even after having them from him, you would not have reached there; had you not come out of the car and entered the house, even after reaching there, you would not have met the Santa and had his Daršana.
30. Now please apply this analogy in the path of realisation. Only the true Guru who himself has realisation can show you the nature of your soul with all possible angles and point out the path of realising it. If you
