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in your truth there is aggression, jealousy.”
It often happens that one man wants to put another in trouble. He does not wish the well- being of others, wants to fix him. This talk of fixing a person goes on even in the world of philosophy, conduct and behaviour. Man does not want to accept his weaknesses. He covers his weakness by presenting it as a principle and thinks nobody will know it is actually his weakness. He says that this is a very big principle and by following it all the knots will be unraveled. And man gets entangled in such talks. Such talks are sometimes pleasant to the ear also. But in actuality they are not true. Bhagvan Mahavir said, “Hurtful words, words that create anger in a person and kill someone are false even if they are true because they harm the listener. Words by themselves are neither true nor false. But if the stream of vital force that flows behind the words are not clean then they sully even truth and make it false.
To understand all these problems and to cope with them, it is necessary for us to adopt the perspective of anekanta, its resultant principles of balance and behave according to it. All those who meditate should aspire to make their vision
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