Shrutsagar 2019 04 Volume 05 Issue 11

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

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SHRUTSAGAR
April-2019 Awakening (from past issue...)
Acharya Padmasagarsuri The Aim of Life
If a bud smiles, it blooms and becomes a flower. In the same manner, Prasannata or cheerfulness is essential for the flowering and development of life.
The passions such as anger destroy this cheerfulness. The same thing happens even on account of passions like moha (infatuation) and mamata (attachment). Grief, worry, injustice, violence and fear also take away our cheerfulness. Fear arises from weakness and cowardice.
According to a poet who deals with the sentiment of peace (Shantarasa) in this world fear arises from our relationship with all things except renunciation. A person will be fearless if he has renounced everything, because always our minds are occupied by the fear that we may lose the things that we wish to acquire and the things that we acquire.
“सर्व वस्तु भयान्वितं भुविनृणां वैराग्यमेवाभयम् ॥” Sarvam Vastu Bhayanvitam Bhuvinrunam Vairagyamevabhayam
All objects in this world cause fear; only renunciation brings fearlessness.
When Arjuna asked Sri Krishna how one could conquer one's mind, Sri Krishna said;
अभ्यासेन तु कौन्तेय! वैराग्येण च गृह्यते Abhyasena tu Kaunteya Vairagyena cha grihyathe
Oh, Arjuna; the mind can be conquered and kept under control only through practice and renunciation.
Who will not get the thoughts of renunciation when they