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Shrimad Rajchandra's Message
pride, can never be at peace with themselves. Their minds are in constant turmoil. Lust and sensuality keeps them restless most of the time. Delusion keeps them motivated towards the attainment of these desires. The sum total of their efforts is that they do not achieve true happiness in their lives, but only the illusion of happiness. They are swallowed by pride and greed. They strive day and night to seek gratification for their sensual appetites. Greed drives every second of their lives, forcing them to be constantly concerned about increasing their possessions.
In Ayodhya, the night before Rama's planned coronation, the palace was lit up with thousands of lamps and this made Manthra's heart burn with hate and jealousy. A cocktail of passions rising out of Manthra's hate, Kaikei's anger and a desire for King Dashrath led to the great epic of Ramayana. Thus, to alert humans to such risks, the Jain scriptural work 'Dash Vaikalik Sutra' in its thirty-fourth verse of the eighth chapter states:
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अधुवं जीवियं नच्चा सिद्धिमग्गं वियाणिया । विणियट्टेज भोगेसु आउं परिमियमप्पणो ॥
Knowing that life is momentary,
our lifespan is limited;
understand the path to liberation and rid yourself of sensual desires.
As if echoing this very sentiment, Shrimad says, "One cannot attain liberation without giving up one's delusion-filled desires and when that is the case, why not give them up from the time one becomes aware of this fact."
Those wallowing in illusory happiness consider this transient happiness to be the ultimate goal of their life. When
