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tion of
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our lives sublime. By following the foot. prints on the sands of time of the Ideal
By dessipaTirthankaras who were real heroes, pure and Ka free, who attained to omniscience and quie. to be reachtude, Nirvana, by the dissipation of their karma, we shall be able to raise ourselves from the mires of the world and to attain to Nirvan by a like dissipation of our own karma and by freeing ourselves from the eighteen blemishes that inevitably lead ultimately to ominiscience, the next door to Nirvanam.
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