As a consequence, a person loses his mental stability, to the
extent that he becomes reliant on sleeping pills.
Where there is not the slightest vestige of pain; there is the
Self (the Soul).
With wrong vision (viparit darshan) there is pain: with
the right vision (samyak darshan) there is bliss, bliss, and
nothing but bliss!
Complete surrender under the Gnani’s protection is the
vehicle for moksha; however, for the worldly happiness one
should serve one’s parents and one’s guru.
In people’s understanding, happiness lies in loksangnya
(related to other peoples’ beliefs). In the Gnani’s understanding,
happiness lies in the Atma.
Saints (santo) take pleasure in pain whereas the ‘Gnani’
takes pleasure in the Self. Saints proceed believing pain as
pleasure.
To derive pleasure from the body (pudgal; non-Self
complex) is a ‘borrowed’ transaction that you will have to
‘repay’. When the son jumps onto his lap saying,
“Daddy…daddy,” the father enjoys ‘borrowed’ pleasure. But
when the same son grows up and says, “Dad, you have no
sense!” the time has come for that borrowed pleasure to be
‘repaid’! So why not be cautious from the very start? The
pudgal is itself vitarag (without attachments and abhorrence)
but when the ‘self’ (relative self) acquires, the transaction of
borrowing begins!
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The True Understanding of Religion
The traditional worldly (laukik) religions give worldly
happiness and the real (alaukik; beyond the world) religion
gives eternal bliss. All actions carried out in the presence of
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