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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
use or objective of my life? What should I do to make my life fruitful and meaningful? Am I trying to make my life useful? What weakness of mine is impeding my attempts to make my life meaningful? These questions must arise in the mind of a sensible man and by thinking of them he gets the knowledge of the reality which helps him and inspires him to pursue the path of salvation.
Lord Mahavira has discussed four principles which are difficult to attain. He says that humanity, knowledge clerived from listening to sacred words, interest in spiritual matters and victory over the self are the four great virtues which are difficult to attain.
The eighty four lakh forms of life that are wandering aimlessly acquire the level of human existence by the concentration of earned merit. Only man can think and contemplate on things and only man can destroy his karmas and attain salvation. Animals caunot express their anguish, but man can, because, he has language; and his power of articulation distinguishes him from animals and birds. Even after attaining the level of human existence, some continue to be wicked, or become wicked. They torment others and deride others. Animals are better than such men because animals do not commit such sins.
In the hymn from the shastras, the word Manushaththam means humanity and it is stated there
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