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[ Religious Instructions of the Lord
and washed the filth of their souls. The audience seemed to flow towards an unknown region of Bliss in the current of nectrous instructions of the Lord. The complete silence of the place, the unwinkling gaze of the audience on the face of the Lord and the seriousness on their faces, go to prove the truth of this statement.
6. The Religious Assembly was so cleverly constructed that any person, sitting at any place inside it, could see the cheerful face of the Lord without any difficulty.
Here we have given a rough idea about the construction of the Samavasharana or the Religious Assembly of the Lord. The style of his sweet discourse will be described hereafter at its proper place.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTIONS OF THE LORD.
After attaining Kevala-Jnana. Lord Mahavira wanted to give the message of that Divine Truth to the world to obtain which he had to suffer untold miseries continually for a period of 12 years. He did not think it proper to rest a while after ending all these troubles. He felt that true peace lay in changing the course of his action according to the call of time, and praised be the Lord for this, for none other than himself could teach us the secret of this peace.
All great souls, that have taken their birth or shall take their birth in this world, think their physical, mental and spiritual power, their dearest things, their material wealth as well as their spiritual attainments, their family and their own life to be a deposit kept for the welfare of the world. They do good to others without any consideration of gaining reward or selfish ends. From the time they draw
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