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JAIN JOURNAL: Vol-XXXI, No. 2 October 1996
My self is the doer or undoer of
All its weal and woes.
Doing good makes you your best friend Doing evil your worse enemy.
The one who has won his own self
Is better than a victor of thousand battles.
Fight against the evils within And not with other living beings Your true victory is over your self The door to eternal happiness.
Never think these four small
The borrowed money, wounds, fire and passions, For they grow being with passing of time.
By shaving head you are not a Saint By uttering OM not true Brahmin By dwelling in jungle not a Hermit By bark-clothes not an Ascetic.
Equanimity makes one a Saint Victory of passions a Brahmin Enlightenement a true Hermit Austerity a true Ascetic.
Control over passions is the true fasting -the fasting of the heart.
Therefore the Saints, although they eat, Are always on the fast forever.
Defiance unto world is defiance unto self Regard unto others is true self-regard.
Dharma alone is the true shelter, abode, Stand-point, the island in the midst of the boundless ocean of existence.
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