Vajrakavach

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

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The Yoga of Knowledge
Shri Hemachandracharya describes Yoga as knowledge, insight and character. llinaswati has clearly stated in his tattvarthsutra that true insight, true knowledge and true conduct of living being constitute the path of Salvation.
What is knowledge? IVluat is true knowledge? It is to know the things in their true nature. Nothing is 115 Sacred (15 knowledge because knowledge light and its true elimination is in a pure life. Knowledge is opposed to ignorance and false knowledge. True knowledge inspires true conduct. Thus knowledge is the attribute of erlry conscious being. An ignorant man lives in materialistic life lut a man of knowledge lives a spiritual life centered on the soul. Kwioletge of consciousness is the characteristic of the son. The soul becomes cnveloped by the Karmas but it does not lose its attributes of knowledge. However much of the churk clouds of karmas may engulf the soul but the pristine glory of the soul cannot be lidelen forei'.
The scriptures are the reliable sources of this knowledge and the preceptor impurts the essent of this knowledge to us.
The scriptures say that you luzie first to comue? You' soul. It means that you have to remove the Kumas tut eclipse the true nature of Your soul so that your soul caii shine out crystal clear.