Silent Soil

Author(s): Vidyasagar Acharya
Publisher: Bhagwan Rishabhdev Granthmala

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‘yati' means yatana, steadiness, to get absorbed in oneself is 'niyati, certainly that is yati (rest), ‘artha means worth achieving purpose, forgetting everything except the soul is the right purusartha' (page 351)
Thus, in man's case the journey to the destination of liberation of the soul is admittedly in a major part internal, yet, all the stages the soil crossed in becoming a pitcher, allegorically, are true in his case too. He will also have to pass through those stages. He will have to seive himself, leave the company of unrestrained people, leave unrestrained modes of life as nonvegeterian diet, eating at night, and vomit mithyatva (false faith), sensual inclinations etc., the hybrid elements; and then, purify himself in the heat of penance, meditation heartly, caring not for the troubles in the beginning remembering the words of the pitcher'the burning of faults in oneself and others the saints have taken as the highest religion'(pg-277). He must welcome with joyful heart the auspicious darasana of the true Deva and Guru, as the soil did of the craftsman when he came to the bank of the river to take it up (pg. 25-26), and become their devout follower.
The words of scriptures, of gurus are in the begining important as help for the aspirant though they are perishable (pg 143), imperishable for himself is his own soul only. Acharya Shri admits the compassion, vatsalya of the elder desciple towards the younger one as things of the dualist world (pg- 159-60). Beyond them is the santa rasa (sentiment of peace), which
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