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The Self Realization
He pithily declares that without right insight the scriptures are helpless, that without true spiritual contact, even meditation degenerates into wild imagination, that without the active guidance of a realized Saint final truth cannot be realized, that by following the normal path of the worldly people one cannot be their leader and saviour, that without resigning the world and its myopic calculations a life of extreme non-attachment is very difficult to be obtained.
He says that he salutes the great Tirthankara who realized his Soul and described it as it was for the benefit of the world. It is only by the teachings of the Tirthankaras that one can easily know his Soul. His Boyhood 4
Manifestation and demonstration of his exceptional intellectual and spiritual acquisitions (powers).
The knowledge of his past lives proves the height of spirituality he had already reached in his previous lives. He was apparently young in his present life but from the point of view of his achievements of previous lives, he cannot but he regarded as a highly advanced soul. From his early boyhood modesty, perfection in speech and conversation, exceptional reasoning power and a sharp spirit of non-attachment or disinterestedness and such other qualities made him a pet boy of his school as well as of his village. He possessed a sharp and unfailing memory, unusually powerful retentiveness and a facility of recollection. He grasped all that he read or heard only once. He therefore knew not cramming. He entered the school at his age of seven and a half years. In about a month after his joining the school he completely mastered the preliminaries in calculation and within two years he
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