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RELIGION IN EVERYDAY LIFE
Merely reading books, endlessly battling with scriptures and memorizing a few thousand verses will not get you anywhere. Until the right vision does not emerge in your heart, until you don't become steadfast in truthfulness, until your faith does not stop wavering, knowledge will not dawn.
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In the Sthānanga sūtra, Lord Mahāvīra has described four Lkinds of flowers. The first is that which has form and beauty, but no fragrance like the flame of the forest, the second has fragrance but no form or beauty like the Vakula, the third is that which has extraordinary beauty and fragrance like the rose, and the fourth is that which has neither beauty nor fragrance like the flowers of the medicinal plant swallowwort.
In the same way, Lord Mahāvīra spoke of human beings. He said:
There are four types of men - some give up the appearance of an aspirant but not righteousness, some abandon righteousness but not the appearance, some others forsake both while there are
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