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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अर्थमनर्थ भावय नित्यं
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-ATAST: Arthamanartham bliavaya nityām
nästhi tataḥ sukhaleshah satyam Putrādapi dhanabhājam bhitih Sarvathraishā vihitha nitih.
--Mohamudgara “Think that wealth always brings miseries. Really we cannot get even the slightest happiness from it. Wealthy people lear their own sons. This truth is obvious every where."
It is said here that a rich man fears his own sons. His fear is that his sons might kill him to take possession of his wealth. When wealth makes a rich man fear his own children there is no wonder in his fearing others,
This is one aspect of fear. It has another aspect, and this is its brighter aspect. Fear is acceptable if it impels people to do what is good. Sant Tulsidās says, “the fear of God, the fear of the preceptor and the fear of society make us pursue the path of righteousness, prevent us from doing evil deeds, inake us self-disciplined, and impel us to do our duties. Nobody would say that such fear should be discarded." It is said in the Bible that the fear of God causes the birth of knowledge in us. An enlightened man would not commit sins. He who fears God also would not commit sins. Therefore, these two types of persons are equal. He who is enlightened fears god and he who fears god is enlightened. A poet says that we should always fear two things. He says, "What are the things that we should always fear? We should fear social censure (loka nindā) and the wilderness of Samsāra (life).”
People censure a man who does evil things and so those who fear social censure always endeavour to resist