Book Title: Awakening
Author(s): Padmasagarsuri
Publisher: Arunoday Foundation

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________________ Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra www.kobatirth.org eousness. 88 The intelligence reviews the Dharma or our right Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir Dharma means right action or duty. It is intelligence that determines our Dharma or right conduct. Only it can help us to free ourselves from meaningless traditions and blind beliefs. Only intelligence can direct men on the right path when they are wandering about in confusion, having lost their way. Only intelligence can inspire in us the courage with which we can get rid of our mental weakness. When we are in difficulties and adversities it is our intelligence that helps us to find a way out of them. A wicked man aimed his pistol at a young man who was sitting near the window of the seventh storey of a palatial building and commanded him: "Jump down from here, or I will shoot you. If the young man had been perturbed and dazed at this moment of difficulty he should have died by jumping down from that height. But he used his intelligence and found a solution. For Private And Personal Use Only "" Smiling, the young man said, " Dear brother! All can jump to the ground from a high place; there is nothing great in it. I can leap to this place from the ground. I am an expert in high jump". The wicked man said, "Very good. Do so. Let me see." On hearing this, leaving the wicked man there, the

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