Siddhachalam NJ 1990 04 Mahavir Jayanti

Author(s): Siddhachalam NJ
Publisher: USA International Mahavir Jain Mission Siddhachalam

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of land around our Ashram, go select separate pieces of land, sow your seeds and show me the result when crops are ready."
They all went away to carry out Guruji's orders.
One man selected a large piece of land, and sowed the seeds.
Other man selected a rocky piece of land and sowed his seeds
Third man selected a piece of land near woods, full of Bamboo trees and sowed his seeds.
Fourth man, the disciple of Guruji also selected a piece of land, prepared it for farming and sowed his seeds.
Time passed by. After reaping the crops all of them came to Guruji with their results.
Guruji's disciple came up with astonishing results. He had a very good harvest.
The other three came with pale faces, because they could yield only a handful of crops.
They said, "We are sorry Guruji, blessings could not help us get good crops."
I know." Said Guruji smiling, "Do you want to to know the reason?
"Of course Guruji." They said.
"Then listen carefully," Said Guruji, “Due to ignorance, one of you selected a rocky piece of land. Nothing can be grown on the rocks as rocks are the curse for growing any thing. The other one selected a large piece of loan, but it was full of weeds. Weeds are selfish and cruel, because they feed on the food of other crops, so the crops could survive. The third one selected the land near Bamboo trees. Bamboo trees are violent. They wrangle their stems against each other with every
There was a monk, who lived in an Ashram situated near a city. People of all races and religions used to visit Ashram from far and near. The monk was called Guruji by all his visitors. He used to deliver Strict discourses, offer prayers and bless people.
One day three persons came to him and complained, "Guruji, we are visiting your Ashram for quite some time, but your blessings have not helped us"
Guruji looked at them, closed his eyes for a couple fo minutes and then asked them, "What can you do to get the blessings?"
"Whatever you will say Guruji." They replied promptly.
"Can you stay in the Ashram for some time?” Asked Guruji.
"By all means Guruji, we will stay and do whatever you will ask us to do." They replied.
From that day on they started living in the Ashram. One week later Guruji called them along with one of his other disciples.
He gave ten pounds of grain-seed to each of them, and said, “We have plenty
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blow of wind. Their friction caused fire that burned the crop."
He stopped for a minute and again said "You have to prepare the land by ploughing, watering and manuring, so that it may be ready for farming and then receive the blessing in the shaped of crops."
"We got your point Guruji, but how can we receive the blessings?" They asked. Guruji answered, "Ignorance is a curse like rocks, selfishness is cruelty like weeds' action and Violence is death. Get rid of all these evils. Prepare your body, Mind, and Soul and then pray. You will be blessed.
-MANIFESTED UNIVERSE
Just as pre-Cosmic Idea is the root of all individual Consciousness, so pre-Cosmic Substance is the substratum of Matter in the various grades of its differentiation.
Hence it will be apparent that the contrast of these two aspects of the Absolute is essential to the existence of the "Manifested Universe." Apart from Cosmic Substance, Cosmic Ideation could not manifest as individual Consciousness, since it is only through a vehicle, in Sanskrit (Upaddi), of matter that consiousness wells up as "I am I," a physical basis being necessary to focus a Ray of the Universal Mind at a certain stage of complexity. Again, apart from Cosmic ideation, Cosmic Substance would remain an empty abstraction, and no emergence of Consciousness could ensue.
The Mainifested Universe, therefore, is pervaded by duality, which is, as it were, the very essence of its Existence as "Manifestation." But just as the opposite poles of Subject and Object, Spirit and Matter, are but aspects of the One Unity in which they are synthesized, so, in the Manifested Universe, there is that" which links spirit to Matter, Subject to Object.
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