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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
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Atmap and Moksa
Hindu unlike Kabir who refused to stick to any particular religious creed and believed that God, described variously in the different systems of religion, is one and the same, Allah is the same as Rāma and Kysna, is the same as Rahim. He was a master of language and metaphors and had written the life of Ráma in a most poetic vein. He has propounded his theory of social well-being (Lokakalyāņa) in his poetical works. His most famous poetic work is the Rāma Carita Manas. Tulasidasa lived in the times of depression and anarchy; everywhere there was confusion and disharmony, and society was gradually degenerating. Tulasīdāsa preached in such a period the doctrine of extremism or perfectionism (Maryādāvāda-Haferare) in the form of Rāma who lived the perfect kind of life in all the aspects of His life. He depicted Räma as an ideal or standard of perfect behaviour and showed the way to lead an ideal life which was necessary for the development of the individual as well as for the ideal development of society, simultaneously. His Rāma is, therefore, the ideal or standard of perfection in all the aspects of life (Maryādā Purusottama-tangot7H). He was a 'harmonist' and his Rama Carita Manas (Tafa Ara) is, from the beginning to the end, a poem of harmony and reconciliation (samanvaya) of household duties with renunciation, devotion with knowledge, the nirguņa with saguņa, the high caste with low caste, etc.... He was a master of harmony (samañjasya-HTHOFT) in the different aspects of the individual and social life.
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