Shrutsagar 2016 02 Volume 02 09

Author(s): Hiren K Doshi
Publisher: Acharya Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir Koba

Page 9

SHRUTSAGAR
7
February-2016
systems. Who is the master of this house and also who lives in the house? None but the Atman, the soul, the conscience.
The soul is the master of the body. The mind is the manager. When the owner of the body falls sick and the tongue is not prepared to take the bitter medicine, what persuades it to take the medicines? The sick person is also tempted to take sweets and other etables but what makes him to give up sweets and drink quinine?
If there is a conflict between the sense organs regarding the judgement of a sense object, it is only the soul which decides the exact character of the sense object. Wealth, riches and body are not attached to themselves, it is only the Atman that is attached to all these.
Delicious food is served and as soon as you sit down to eat, the telephone bell rings and you get the news that the prices of all your products in the market have gone down and your firm has incurred heavy loss of lakhs of rupees. Your face turns pale and you do not, feel like eating the tasty food served before you. It was the mind and soul that went through grief over the sad news broken to you. There was no physical change in the body on hearing the news.
To save your hand, when one of your fingers is removed in the operation, you are relieved of the pain; but for the rest of your life, you always feel you have lost a finger.
Now it is not the body which feels so.
Two twins are born to a mother and the same mother brings them up together, showering equal affection and love on both of them. But the two brothers turn out to be having different characters and different kind of thoughts. This is because the souls are different in the two bodies.
The opposite of existing real substances is also real. If matter exists, its opposite 'spirit' also has to exist. Hence jiva is Sat1 (truth) which remains a reality.
You sacrifice your afternoon nap (sleep) for the sake of a good business offer; if your son is sick, you do not bother about the best business offer; but then you also give up your son if he is a hindrance