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STATUT
SPIRITUAL PRACTICES OF LORD MAHĀVĪRA
Yvacharya Dr. Shiv Muni
Our experiences in life are limited to material accomplishments alone and we may be compared to a frog in a well, that has not visited to the vast and unlimited sea and thinks that the well is the world. Our existence too is limited as we are unaware of aim of our life and the limitations that we have imposed on ourselves due to the clouds of ignorance that are hanging over us. Even if we were alert or informed about the same, it would be futile, for we are helpless and defenseless. To break the fetters of ignorance and limitations, one needs proper guidence it was important that someone from the beyond called upon us and guided us. Only a call from the unknown could truly free us from the limitations and clear the clouds of ignorance. The matchless, excellent and perfect life of Lord Mahāvīra inspires and leadsus to the way of perfection. It comes in hand, at this stage as that 'call from the beyond'. It doesn't matter if we are unable to strike at metaphors while pronouncing the excellence of Lord Mahāvīra, however, we need to understand the same for our betterment. Such an understanding inspires us to give up our worldly inclinations for a more fulfilled and developed personality whose source is within us. Innumerable mysteries of existence are unfolded in the divine life of Lord Mahāvīra, when one has a practical and experimental encounter with the accomplished life of Lord Mahāvīra. So friends! let us have a glimpse of the spiritual life of that great way-farer who become Mahāvīra from Vardhamana and who is worshipped by the Lord of Lords.
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