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by that method will not be of real service to humapity. If you are able to attain spiritual perfection, the true knowledge will reveal itself to you and you shall be omniscient and you can do any amount of good work for the benefit of the world, both from the spiritual and material points of view. Do what is necessary for that. Train your body for physical endurance. (At this stage, I may remark that, Jaina Sadhus who can and do engage themselves in serious literary and meditative work even during a week's fasting,-I mean the fasting in which nothing is taken, though on rare occasions water only is taken ; experience proves that, only the vegetarians can claim to this kind of physical endurance). Train your mind to withstand the temptations of the world and try to realise the real object of life.
It is meaningless to further extend this letter and make unnecessary encroachment upon your important time, though in extreme excitement and in consideration of the fact that, you are my old friend, I have written so much and will write a few lines more. The majority of facts stated here are known to you. I have stated them here, since I like them. One friend writes to another what the former likes, the latter may like it or not. Moreover as a Jaina Sadhu, it is my duty
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