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PHILOSOPHY OF SOUL
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pulous for your attire then why should you not be scrupulous to save your soul from any kind of pollution?
If you really care to save your soul from this pollution then tell anger, "Hide your black face. How you dare show your face to me? If you approach me, I shall kill-destroy you with my sword of forbearance".
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You must convey to pride, "I am fully aware of your ways and means and so I do not want even your company. It is better you may remain away from me otherwise I shall knock you down with the hammer of humility". You should address worldly attachment thus, "I am frequently defrauded by you but now no more. fully alert. If you approach me I shall chop your nose with knife in the form of straightforward conduct". You must speak to greed thus, "You are most villainous everfound. I shall hammer you with the rod of contentment".
Here is your great folly that you never fight with whom you ought to fight and you fight where you ought not to fight. You must fight with the passions and herein lies your real valour in vanquishing them.
One might say, "We do not want to fight, we aspire for peace". We reply to him and all of you should listen to my reply with concentration that Jainism is the religion professed and promulgated by Kshatriyas. It ordains you to fight-Fight not with those who rob you of a piece of land, money or who might abuse you, as they deserve pity. You have to fight with your inner enemies in the forms of passions which sway over you. You have to fight with them by any means, with full courage. You have to fight against inner enemies to secure glorious victory. One is not a Jain in the real sense of the term if he does not aspire for victory over passions.
You all the while cry for peace. Peace is not something extraneous. It comes only after devastation or war. Defeat the inner enemies of passions and none shall oppress you-harass you, and eternal peace shall prevail. If you hold that peace is attained by staying in palatial mansions, by using ultra-modern furniture, valuable ornaments and by earning immense wealth, you are grossly mistaken. None of these things is capable of procuring
