Spiritual Guide

Author(s): Rajyashsuri
Publisher: Labdhi Vikramsuri Sanskruti Kendra Ahmedabad

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Preface-Panchamrit
Jain Darshan is basically an integral factor of the texture of our Indian Culture. It is not merely a religion that propounds certain do's and don't's but provides the supra physical and supra psycological stability, mobility and velocity of the consciousness of human soul. The spirituality being aimed at and practised by Jain saints is nothing but the spiritual experimentation to reach the defacto reality of soul through human means of intellect, bodily experiences, concentration, contemplation and meditation.
tie. Since last so many millenniums right from Rishabhdev to Bhagwan Mahavir swami the same spiritual values were unexceptionally practised by all Tirthakars not for their welfare only but for the welfare of entire mankind and especially for Jin Shasan, i.e the highest spiritual commune of highly elevated spiritual human society.
The tapasya as it is popularly known and identified becomes the second nature of Jain saints. The life style so projected and demonstrated is the sunlit path for the rest of the people to follow and to elevate their human life in a best possible manner to be follower of Jin Shasan. It is not the code of the conduct being imposed on society in the name of spirituality, sadhana and tapasya but is the practice demonstration launched by Jain saints openly for the people to follow and thereby to find out the real objectives of human life.
Late Acharya Vikramsuriji Maharaj and Acharya Rajyashsuriswarji Maharaj have undertaken penance and acute sadhana for the upgradation of Jin Shasan and for the spiritual elevation of entire human society. Their Rishitva, their spirituality, their psychic vision and their inner divinity are all well reflected in their discourses collected in this book, which is not merely a collection of lecture series but it is a Mantrik a quantom of their light life and divinity. It is a living 'Upanishad' for Jain society definitely but is much more for the welfare of the entire human society too.
The new Age that is going to dawn on the horizon of India needs the New Vision of Life, New Vistas of spiritual life and New scientific intergration of all prevelant religious principles and practices which are being provided here by our two pioneers and purodhas in this small booklet that is a genuine master piece for a sensible human society to get self enriched with Jinatva.
As it is said for Hindu Religion in the words of Dr. Radhakrishnan that "Hindu Religion is not a religion but a sound way of life", so can be truly and genuinely applicable to Jain Darshan too. The Jinatva is the highest idea of human kind on the basis of Truth and Non Violence. The human kind towards spiritual progress can only be set on the principles of penance, affinity, equanimity, love, sacrifice, collaboration and spiritual
The psychic oriented knowledge of self-realization is the inevitable need of this transit period. I hereby offer my heart felt Atma Vandana to the Acharya Vikramsuriji Maharaj and Acharya Rajyashsuriswarji Maharaj who have