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in time for some dance festival; but when you are called upon to perform religious rites you say you do not find any time, you do what is possible or you plead your inability. If you have staunch faith and love for religion such words would not emanate from your mouths, and such state of affairs would not prevail. Persons with deep love for religion do not waste their time in useless affairs and they try to achieve religious merits more and more in any
ount of leisure they find and try to practise self-restraint to their best. In such leisure available he would chant 'Namaskara' Mantra and would render his soul more and more sacred.
Third indication of Right faith' is serving the gods and preceptor strictly according to rules laid down. Just as a person trying to accomplish some lore is fully engrossed in doing so, a person with ‘Right faith' is regularly and constantly engaged in serving the gods and the preceptor. He becomes so much accustomed to such servitude that he becomes uneasy when he is not able to carry out such servitude.
Ravana had taken a vow of worshipping Lord Jina daily and he did not accept any food without such worship. Once upon a time he was on flight at noon and his aerial car was made to descend for offering his worship to Lord Jina, but then he found that his attendant had forgotten to carry along with them the idol of Lord Jina. The attendants therefore prepared an idol of sand and Ravana offered his worship to Lord Jina. He accepted his food thereafter. The sand-idol was submerged in the ocean. The idol was popularised as “Antariksha Parswanath” (Aerial-God).
A person with "Right faith” should also have such insistence for serving the gods and the preceptor. A person with true faith finds no relief, no ease unless he sees the preceptor, enquires about his health, etc. and offers his salutations according to prescribed rites.
TEN FORMS OF DISCIPLINE-RESPECT
For protection and purity of 'Right faith' one should maintain ten forms of discipline. By discipline we mean bowing down, showing cordial love, praising the merits, avoiding demerits and avoiding displeasure. This means that if a person desires to honour some one, he should bow down to him and he should express his
