Way of Life Part 1

Author(s): Bhadraguptasuri
Publisher: Vishvakalyan Prakashan Trust Mehsana

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THE WAY OF LIFE
if there is the light of the right knowledge; otherwise, there will prevail the terrible dance of attachments and hatred. There will prevail only the dark and sinister dance of infatuation and ignorance.
The remaining one is the state of human life. Even in the case of human life, the light of knowledge will be attained only if one is born in a cultured family and if one meets a SADGURU (a great teacher); otherwise human life is not important or efficacious in any way. What greatness is there in human life if it is devoid of culture, humanity, dharma; and if it is sinful ? In this manner, crores and crores of human beings foolishly rush on the path of hell or the world of brutes, (animals and birds). Give up your search for happiness in Samsar (Worldly life).
The entire life (Samsar) is full of sorrow. If at any time, at any place, in any form, we see happiness, its effect will be sorrow. Permanent and perfect happiness is never found in SAMSAR (the cycle of life and death). Therefore, give up your search for happiness in worldly life. Noble and pure souls keep appearing even in this life, which abounds in sorrow, agony and agitation. Those souls that keep attaining deliverance from the bondage of Karmas, continue to enhance the splendour of knowledge. In the radiance of knowledge, the soul sees itself; it feels profoundly grieved and agitated to see its predicament resulting from Karmas and their bondage; it gets up and endeavours to attain deliverance from the bondage of Karmas. In the light of knowledge, it visualises the means by which it can release itself from the bondage of Karmas and that device is Dharma. The soul attains deliverance from the bondage of Karmas by means of spiritual endeavours. THE USEFULNESS OF THE GREAT WORK, "DHARMABINDU”
The great Tirtankar Bhagwan, the ocean of compassion and of boundless knowledge, seeing samsar (the mundane life) and the sorrowful predicament of the Jiyas (lives) wandering in samsar, gives the radiance of Dharma, expounding the sublime philosophy in order to release them from their agonies