________________ Letter 570 Mumbai, Fagan Vad 5, Saturday. 1951 To the respected brother, Mohanlal, Durban I acknowledge the receipt of your letter. As the involvement with external tribulations diminishes, inner equanimity rises, and it diminishes when external involvement increases. Contemplation upon this concept will make one realise that it is so. If one were to think deeply about the true ephemeral nature of worldly objects, a sense of detachment towards them would certainly arise from within; for it is merely the lack of such thought that delusion and attachment have gripped the soul. "The soul exists," "The soul is eternal," "The soul is the doer of its actions," "The soul suffers the fruits of its actions," "Liberation from the material world exists," and "There are means to attain liberation." The soul which has contemplated upon these six fundamental affirmations, and has thereby experienced and ascertained them to be true is considered to have attained the judicious wisdom of the enlightened souls; that is, he or she is said to have attained the right faith or 'samyak darshan'. The Lord Jineshwaras have professed this. All seekers of liberation should study and contemplate these affirmations in much depth. The soul's past spiritual endeavours or an association with an enlightened person leads to the desire to contemplate upon these six fundamental truths. The soul's deluded attachment to transient objects such as its body, etc., means it remains oblivious to its own eternal nature
