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The rest also have their special values. One who practices all these vows is indeed the true "Srāvaka”.
Lord Mahāvīra led an exemplary life. His early life teaches us obedience. Let us be obedient to the spirit of what he taught and how he acted. He teaches broadmindedness. He respected his age and time. Let us study comparative religion and let us make our thought about his life and action more scientific in view of our age and thus restore it to its pristine logical vigour, rational foundation. His has been perhaps the lone example of equanimity of the highest order. Needless to say, the ideals of equanimity and non-violence emplified by his life should never have led to groupism among his own followers. That it has done so is a sad reflection on the nature of man.
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