Vajrakavach

Author(s): Dharnendrasagar
Publisher: Jain Sahitya Prakashan Mandir

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realize that the soul is different from the body and you are not the body, but the soul, you have arrived at the truth.
And a person who has reached the truth has only one goal i.e. liberation. Such a man has no interest in worldly life but is completely engrossed in the world of the soul. Such man is neither depressed in misery nor attached to worldly happiness.
Among the human beings, souls are found of two types the lofty ones and the lowly ones. Of these two, it is the lofty type of human beings that is qualified to reach the ultimate truth and hence such beings attain salvation. Of course, even the lofty souls attain different states, only few of them which are mature and ripe, get salvation. Faith
Faith has two aspects : 1) right faith and 2) blind faith. The right faith involves humility, while the blind faith involves obstinacy and ego which obstruct the true knowledge. As different from this two-fold faith, there is lack of any faith which is the greatest sin. But, faith is destroyer of sin. Thus, faith, belief and penance are the chief factors that mold human life. And the scriptures declare that a person possessed of faith attains immortality. This faith is the root of true knowledge which forms the bad rock of true conduct. Thus true knowledge, true insight and true conduct are the three gems which constitute the foundation of the Jain faith.
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