Golden Steps To Salvation

SR No.: 008710
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Padmasagarsuri
Publisher: Arunoday Foundation
Publication Year: 1994
Total Pages: 224
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Philosophy, & Religion
File Size: 12 MB

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नास्तिरागसमम् दुःखम्
नास्ति त्याग समम् सुखम् ॥ Nasti rāgasamam duḥkham,
Nasti trāgasamaṁ sukham “There is no sorrow like passion and no felicity like renunciation."
Look at a playfield where football is being played. If any player sits down holding the ball without playing nobody will get the joy of the game. Wealth also should be passed from person to person like a football. The playcr who gets the ball passes it to another. The other players run behind the ball. You too run after wealth but you should not forget the objective of a player. His objective is to pass the ball on to another. Why docs the cloud collcct water? Its only objective is to pour it down in the form of rain. The wealth that is collected to be given away to others is not hoarded wealth. If you go riding on a bicycle lo travel all over the world, it may take some years. But those who Ny by a supersonic planc travel all over the world within few days. The difference between ruunciation made by a shrāvak a pious jain and a sādhu is similar. The sādhu maki's a wholesale Sucii. sice; but the shrāvak sacrifices in retail. Self-sacrifice is die most important of all virtucs. Its weight is greater than thit of all the other virtutes. A mural tcacier say's :
त्याग एको गुणः शलाध्यः किमन्यैर्गुणराशिभिः । CUTTIFF fa gota TT-TTT -9179: 11 Tjag Eko Gunah Shlagruh
Kimanyaiḥ gunarashihih Tjāgājjayati Pujyante
Pašu, pāşāna, Pādajāh. “Self-sacrifice is the only virtue that descries praise, What is the use of possessing the other virtues? In this world, on account of self-sacrifice (made by them even animals, stones (statutes) and trees are worshipped. (When that is so what about man?)”.