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damental tenet of religion. A crooked man cannot be religious. Religion abides only in a pure soul and only he who is straightforward is pure.
Crookedness is practised by him who wants to twist the truth. On the contrary, one who wants to present the truth without distortion is straightforward in all his activities of body, mind and speech. He would be practising what he preaches. In accordance with this, Bhagavān Mahavira has recommended the following four ways of practising truth:
(a) Guilelessness in bodily expression, (b) Straightforwardness of thoughts, (c) Ingenuousness of speech, (d) Harmony of speech and action.
३६. जाए सखाए णिक्खंतो, तमेव अणुपालिया। विजहित्तु विसोत्तियं । 36. Jāye saddhãe nikkha sto, tameva anupāliyā.
Vijahittu visottiyan. 36. One should preserve, without the slightest diminution,
the faith which one had at the time of renunciation, One should not be swept away by the eddies of mercurial mind.
ANNOTATION 36: When a sādhaka - an aspirant of the Mokşa - is initiated into the path of sādhanā, his zest is certainly like the crescent moon. Even the slightest diminution of it is not desirable. Yet, during the prolonged course of sādhand, it is not improbable that the sadhaka's faith may remit slightly. Here, therefore, the teacher admonishes the novice to ever invigorate his faith continuously in the path. In case he is not able to make any progress, he is expected at least to persevere in his sādhana with the initial intensity.
The eddies, the mental fluctuations, or the doubts, are the dangerous pitfalls for the sad haka.
३७. पणया वीरा महावीहिं। 37. Panayā virā mahāvihim. 1. (Sthānānga Sutra, 4/102).
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