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the purpose of acquiring some internal wealth. Listen to discourses with the purpose of discarding your inner enemies like pride, anger, deception and avarice..
Shri Indrabhuti Gautam Bhagavan went to Mahavir Swami with pride and with the purpose of carrying out a disputation with him but he had no prejudices or obstinacy or obduracy. The Lord exposed the doubts of Gautam Swami and cleared them. Gautam Swami discarded his earlier opinions and surrendered himself absolutely at the feet of the Lord. Shri Indrabhuti Gautam was not an ordinary scholar. He was an extraordinary bramhin scholar who had attained an absolute mastery over the Vedas. How did he engage himself in positive contemplation ? In the same manner ten other bramhin scholars who were free from prejudice came to Lord Mahavir and when their doubts were cleared, they became his disciples. They attained the supreme truth. .
I have dealt in detail with the subject of listening to discourses and contemplating on them. My auspicious aspiration for you is that you should keep listening every day to the discourses delivered by a noble spiritual head; and that you should attain spiritual purification by means of exalted contemplations.
This is enough for to-day.
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