Spiritual Enlightenment

Author(s): Yogindu Deva, A N Upadhye
Publisher: Radiant Publishers

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Spiritual Enlightenment
old and worn out. Similarly red colour, old age and destruction of the body have nothing to do with the soul. As clothes are separate from the body so body is separate from the soul. Body is the enemy of the soul, because it produces miseries; then he is a friend who destroys this body. It is indeed a great gain if the Karmas, which are to be made ripe for operation and to give fruit, become automatically ripe and exhausted. If the mind cannot bear harsh words, meditate on the ParaBrahman whereby the mind might be set at rest. Beings that are averse to their spiritual welfare wander in the round-ofrebirths pursued by Karmas; what wonder then, if they escape from Samsara when they establish themselves in themselves. If others take pleasure in finding faults with you, then consider yourself as an object of pleasure for others, and give up anger, for even a bit of it, like a subtle nail, necessarily causes pain. There should be no anxiety even for Moksha, for anxiety will not bring Moksha: that which has bound the soul will rescue it. Those that sink in the great lake of meditation have their souls rendered pure, and the dirt of round-of-rebirth is washed off. Elimination of all the mental distractions is called the great meditation (Param-samadhi); the saints, therefore, give up all the auspicious and inauspicious attitudes. Though severe penances are practised and though all the scriptures are understood, the Shantam Shivam is not realized, if the great meditation is not practised. Realization of Paramatman cannot be accomplished, if meditation is not practised after destroying pleasures and passions. If the Para-Brahman is not realized through great meditation, one has to wander infinitely suffering the miseries of Samsara. The omniscient have said that the great meditation is not achieved unless all the auspicious and inauspicious attitudes are annihilated. The Atman becomes Arahanta when all the mental distractions are stopped, and when, being on the path of liberation, the four (Ghatiya) Karmas are destroyed. Atman becomes Arahanta, necessarily full of supreme bliss, who continuously knows the physical and super-physical worlds through omniscience. That Jina who is omniscient and whose nature is supreme bliss is the
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