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52 / Lord Mahavira
Mankind as it is today, is the result of enrichment by various systems, formulated and propounded at various times in history and beyond, in various parts of the world by various groups of men.
Religion is necessary to achieve the highest discipline of life and to control body, speech and concentrate the mind in right thinking, in right discrimination and in right judgement.
Jaina philosophy is not the worship of the individual but of the individuality. Any one who follows these principles becomes an authority and attains the highest state of sidha.
Passions are both the causes and results of karma. They are the doors by which karma enters and binds the soul. The four passions anger, pride, deceit, greed result in individual and collective violence in thought, word and deed. They are deadliest enemies of man and cause tensions and strifes in society.
Acharya Haribhadra said-“A person cannot be liberated on ground of being a Digambra, Svetambara, logician, philospher, or belonging to any particular sect. On the other hand, a person attains emancipation only if he frees himself from the clutches of the four dead deadly passions.
Lord Mahavira says-"anger, pride, deceit and greed are four powerful enemies which stimulate sinful deeds. One who desires the welfare of himself should renounce these four flaws.”
