30.Clean your soul with the soap of restraint

Clean your soul with the soap of restraint
O brethren! That which is visible, 1 am not that because the form/ nature of my soul does not contain any siga7 property of taste, smell, appearance and colour. This form exists only by the company of 'pudgala (body). Hence, forgetting the pure reality, you will have to prop up yourself, make effort for getting identical gem's-trio with re¬straint. Well, we undertook journey to sensual enjoyments again and again in our extraneous form. You should enter the nature of your ow n self for getting the nature of soul. What activities we have done so far. they all were the activities which prolong the world taking support of the world that is why we remained deprived of ultimate happiness be¬yond all sensual pleasures. The state of dependence always grieves and causes us to go astray. Hence, always walk seeing downwards, walk protecting mobile and immobile living being, because we can pro¬ceed further in our journey only keeping thought feelings of sense- restraint. (i.e. desistance from sensual pleasures) & vitality restraint. What-so-ever passionful thought-feeling of attachment-aversion, etc. are there, they exist in the living being, are in generation of the ’Jeeva'. All these thoughts feelings of attachment-aversion, are precisely the ¡ army of our soul.

O brothers! The characteristic of our soul is pure, consists of perception and knowledge in which there is not the least entry even of an atom of other substances. Until you become such, till then the attain¬ment of pure soul cannot be gained. If the attachment thought feelings of our inner self are not destroyed then this living being will go on mov¬ing stray in 84 lakhs number of birth-places. Hence clean blackness of the soul with the soap of restraint. 'Hie state of non- negligence cannot be attained without restraint.

There is no necessity of being perturbed by the Karinas. They are not our enemy Well, they are our friend who always used to make us alert. Experience merely their existence in your respective conscious¬ness identifying your respective characteristics. Try to identify your inner- .fonn by the preaching of the Guru. The Self-form can be catched by the right knowledge about Self. If you will be attached to the body then the state of non-confusedness will not come and the experience of con¬sciousness also cannot be felt. Hence, until the external possession together with the attachment to belongings are not abandoned com¬pletely till then you cannot remain stable in your inner-self.

The ford, the place of pilgrimage, is a symbol of dust-foot of the Teerthankara, is the one from where people cross over the ocean of the world, where sitting, the Lord Jinendra attained ownself and manifested the devine Sun and clearly saw movables and immovables of all the three world simultaneously and voiced the devine resonant sound through extension of His transcendented halo.

When dissatisfaction prevails in the people, they face troubles and then hostile feelings would increase and the roots of the State would shake, therefore the means of trade and livelihood will have to be increased, will have to show affection towards people and will have to honour and to give importance to the subject according to their ability, then only progress of the nation is possible.