Shrutsagar 2019 01 Volume 05 Issue 08

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

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SHRUTSAGAR
January-2019
mitted in an earlier life (Poorva Janma). When a cowherd drove into Lord Mahavira's ears wooden bolts he bore with the pain calmly remembering what he had done in his Poorva Janma (an earlier life).
The Flowering of Life
A great acharya (preceptor) has said;
मा सुयह जग्गिअव्वं पलायियव्वम्मि कीस वीसमह । तिण्णि जणा अणुलग्गा रोगो य जरा य मच्चू य ॥
Ma suyah Jaggiavvam, Palayiyavvammi kisa visamaha, Tinni jana anulagga, Rogo ya jara ya machchu ya
Do not sleep. Be awake; when you have got to run how can you take rest. Disease, old age and death are chasing you.
If one wicked man is chasing us we run to escape from him. When that is so how can we commit the error of taking rest when three wicked men are chasing us?
But this is what is actually happening in life. Gurudev (the preceptor) gives us a knowledge of this error. He awakens people from their spiritual stupor and gives suggestions to them to enable them to achieve their objectives (purusharthas).
All creatures, that are born, easily attain the stage of life or existence. Of course, they get existence and life but it is not an easy task to make life flower forth and develop by means of renunciation, and self-control. It does not matter if the boat sails on water; but water should not enter the boat. If such a thing happens, the boat sinks;
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