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Though in actuality the one who says the sweet words of a friend may also do the harm of an enemy. Parents tell the son, do not take alcohol, keep a distance from intoxicants, do not get into bad habits and do not mix with an undesirable crowd. The son thinks his parents are his enemies. Instead the one who says let us go to the nightclub, drink and have fun seems to be a better friend. This is perversion of vision.
Causes of change in vision
Anekanta is a well-known principle of life. This principle begins with a change of vision. When our vision is not holistic then our thoughts are not distilled through both the gross and the subtle world. As long as our knowledge is not a synthesis of the expressed and the unexpressed modes we are not able to take the right decisions and are also not able to save ourselves from problems. The nature of matter is a very big truth. We should not make light of it. We should try to understand it. No man who has flouted the norms that govern matter has been able to live happily. Only he who accepts the real facts and the laws that govern matter, will be able to
Acharya Mahaprajna
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