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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
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The fourth great obstacle that impedes education is discase either physical or mental. Both the diseases are clreadful. Attention, concentration and intellectual incisiveness are essential for the acquisition of knowledge but man cannot have these things when he is afflicted with some liscase. All his attention is taken away by disease and so he cannot concentrate his mind on his studies.
The fifth and the last obstacle that impedes education is idleness. Idleness engenders intellectual insipidity and spiritual lethargy. It renders man ahsolutely useless. A lazy man does not like to do any work. He depends on others to do his work though they may spoil it and is even prepared to bear with frustration and loss when others spoil his work. He never likes to co his work with his own hands. Laziness is a great enemy of man and it dwells in himself, "31575 Faqui TTFYT : ” (Alasyam hi manushyanam sharirastho Maharipuhu). A pupil will be successful in his endeavour to acquire knowledge if he can destroy this enemy. The mind is enlarged and the soul is elevated hy a contemplation of lofty ideas and by the light that the teacher kindles in the students." Such a pupil has visions delightful of dream-seas and crystal purities on the heights of spiritual bliss;
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