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Humanity
चत्तारि परमंगाणि
माणुसतं सुई सद्धा
दुल्लहाणि य जन्तुणो ।
संजमम्मि य वीरियं ॥
Chatthari paramangani
Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
dullahaniya janthuno
Manusattham suyi saddha
sanjamammiya veeriyam|||
(Humanity, Scriptual studies, interest in spiritual matters and victory over the senses; these four virtues are rare among living beings).
Lord Mahavira said that these four virtues were rare. Of these humanity is the first and the most important one. Today, we shall think of this quality a little. The 84 lakh forms of life that live in a state of confusion attain with difficulty the level of human existence but though they attain human form they do not have the fitness to be called human beings. The true human being is he who has humanity; and in whom dwell the virtues that are appropriate to human
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