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AN EPITOME OF JAINISM.
light of truth will be reflected thereon and he will realise the temporary character of the things wordly, along which he will become less and less attached to them, with a growing spirit of renunciation born of right knowledge of the real values and functions of these. This is how should a jiva cultivate apathy and indifference to things worldly. So long a jiva living, moving and having his being in this empirical world of ours, he must have to work and the more he works out things with attatchent the more fettered does he become ; but if he does his duty for duty's sake without waiting for the result thereof, he will devolope by this his mode of conduct, a spirit of renunciation which will help him to preserve the equanimity of temper in the midst
of intense activity. Yathakshyata.-Having thus gradually
devoloped the spirit of doing
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