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í Maria under any circumstances however untoward, unpleasant and difficult they may be. It is also laid down in the Sthanang Sutra ( Jain Agama. ) It is very difficult to repay the debts we owe to our parents, masters ( who maintain us ) and spiritual preceptors. One can not repay this pious obligation even if he personally gets them bathed with hot and fragrant waters and annointed with perfumery oils and feeds them; but if he initiates them into the true path of religion and makes them steady in the right belief, right knowledge and right conduct-the true path for liberation he may be able to discharge this pious debt to some extent. No nation, no community, no sect, no human being is a stranger to this feeling; but it is generally noticed that it is strongest with the Indians.
All religions prescribe the same thing but the practice varies with different persons in form and degrees. India though imitating European methods is sometimes again brought back to her original high ideal by the salutary and instructive preachings of the spiritual teachers. It is therefore highly praiseworthy that the sense of respect, veneration and obedience for the parents should flow in the veins of all rational beings. Nothing but the revered attitude of mind should be scrupulously maintained towards parents who have given the flesh and bones, the robust frame of body and far above all these who have spared no pains, money, devoted attention to further our physical, moral, social and spiritual develop
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