87. Effect of Company Just as words become valuable and devalued due to the effect of prefix, in the same way human beings also rise and fall due to the effect of prefixes. The value of words increases with auspicious or good prefixes and it decreases with inauspicious or bad prefixes. For example by putting…
86. What is Aagam, Shastra or Shrutgyana Aagam – ‘Ad’ means uttered by Aapta, Jinendra lord ‘Ga’ means collected by Ganadhara (chief disciple of Tirthankara) and ‘m’ means written by muni (ascetics). Shaastra-‘Sha’ means shaman, which does suppression of passions. Astra’ means weapons by which distorted feelings can be destroyed. Shruta ‘Shru’ means shrota, listener,…
85. What is true worship? Jinendra Bhakti or worship to God doesn’t mean to nurture the ego by placing an idol of God but to have affection in the qualities of God, to discover one’s own nature or to do efforts by three volitions to become God. Adoration of God is to destroy our own…
84. What is the basis of religion Some people say that right perception is religion. Some people consider that right conduct is religion. Some people have considered forgiveness as religion. Some have considered nonviolence as religion. If somewhere benevolence is the supreme religion then somewhere truthfulness is considered the backbone of religion. Somewhere compassion or…
83. Without auspicious feelings Auspicious means the dissolver of sin and giver of excellent happiness. Purest feelings of soul is the best bliss. Auspiciousness of region, place and time cannot be fully meaningful without it. Even the crematorium is a worthy place for meditation for a person with a pure mind. But person with spiteful…
82. Awakening is also necessary There are three states of a person 1. Awakened state 2. Dormancy 3. Dream state. When we are awake, not sleeping then it is the waking state, when we are sleeping it is sleeping state or when there is no activity it is dormancy. When we are dreaming, it is…
81. Take the treatment, but in the right way Whenever a disease is treated in the wrong way, then the treatment also becomes a new disease. You people are also treating diseases like birth, old age and death, not only in the wrong way but in the opposite way. Therefore, the disease is increasing day…
80. The excellence of penance Some people say that “No matter how much you preach to the wicked, he cannot become nice, as no matter how much you wash the coal but it cannot be white.” I say that wicked can be good or well-mannered and coal can also be white. If coal is burnt…
79. Being good is profitable A person who is good and dear to all, everyone considers him their own even if he is a stranger. And a person who does bad to others none calls him his own and none wants to adopt him, everyone wants to avoid him. Even if he is his own,…
78. The secret of the Guru There are four letters in the word Guru. Which are like four pilgrimage, four anuyoga, four perseverance, four mangal, uttam & sharan. Those four letters are G. U, R and U. “G” means dignified or good conducted. ‘U’ means udaar (generous), ‘ means rahasyodghataka (revelatory) (one who understands and…