Book Title: Soul Science Part 02
Author(s): Parasmal Agrawal
Publisher: Kundakunda Gyanpith

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________________ 50 Soul Science : Samayasara by Jain Acarya Kundakunda him an effective President and a happy person. Besides the qualities of a good President, he is also advised to take care of his personal health and family life. He is also advised to forget the pressure of his office by spending regularly some time in his home. This is not the wastage of time for the President. It makes him more efficient as a President. Parallel to this analogy, spiritual teachers also teach the following to balance the personal and spiritual life: (a) One should learn and realize the difference between the role of a person and the permanent role of a soul. One should identify oneself as a soul. (This corresponds to a state of a SamyagDịști of 4th Guņasthāna.) In the analogy of the President, this situation corresponds to the honesty or the realization of the difference between the personal wealth and the national wealth by the President. (b) In addition to the honesty, the care of personal health and spending some time in the home given in the analogy of the President can be used as follows: One should take care of one's own spiritual health and should spend some time in one's own spiritual home (Self). This corresponds to stopping worldly personal activities for some time, spending some time with the spiritual-family (spiritual teachers, spiritual colleagues, etc.), and getting tuned to the Self by way of prayer, worship, meditation, staying-in-the-Self, etc. with some vows. This state corresponds to 5th or higher Guņasthāna. As compared to the state of 4th Guņasthāna, in this higher state there is peace of higher kind. After attainment of 4th Guņasthāna such taste of peace of higher kind and other spiritual developments follow in due course of time (not necessarily in one lifetime). Water from a hill top comes down (by gravity) by directing it to a path leading to the downward slope. In the same way, after being in the right

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