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But he did not want to breek the law of nature. No great soul would ever like to do so.
He allows his antagonists to raise the structure of their prosperity upon his own ruine. He has not learnt to injure his enemies or to ruin them completely. Besides, Lord Mahavira possessed a definite knowledge of the theory of Karmas. It was, therefore, impossible for him to advance further without repaying his debt that he owed to Karmas. He was in wardly satisfied with the suffering that he had to face. His idea was that the perfection of the self realization lay in obtaining Supernatural happiness by suffering all sorts of troubles and thus destroying the very seed of them.
Lord Mahavira suffered all the injuries caused to him by god Sangama. He felt that the root cause of them all was the existence of bis previous Karmas. He had therefore given up every thought about his body and was consequently unaffected by the feelings of joys and sorrows. Love of body, indeed, is the cause of all attachments; one, who is too much careful about his body, cannot obtain real patience and without obtaining real patience nobody has ever been able to attain Liberation.
That is the reason why patient people do not regard calamities as calamities. Thinking them transitory and temporary, they bear them most sportively. But those who cannot control their senses and who are impatient at the same time, become dejected when faced with calamities and thus ruin their lives completely.
The most intricate problems of the world resolve themselves into the easiest ones to those who are courageous and patient, but they become insoluble to those who are impatient
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