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[Ten dreams of Lord Mahavira
He thinks that the purpose for which he got his body was over. Jnana ( knowledge) is Truth and Truth is knowledge. It can never conceal itself or be concealed by others. It is beneficial beautiful, and immortal. Any nation can make itself immortal by worshipping it. It. gives permanent peace to its seekers. Nothing remains to be got when this is got. The seekers of Truth devote themselves to its attainment and lead a strictly pious life throughout. The birth of that man alone is worth its name who has tried to realize himself by means of Jnana which is the light of all lights. There can be no exchange for Jnana. If there can be any reward for it, it is Jnana and nothing else. It puts an end to all disquietude and diseases of the world. Fear and hatred are the causes of all troubles and miseries of this world; but, with the help of True knowledge, when man realizes that he can never die, he does not fear death. When he realizes that he is perfect, he does not feel the existence of any desire in him. He is, so to say, freed from it for ever. Such firmness of mind alone can help a man in attaining the all-beautiful super natual or divine Knowledge.
Being destitute of True knowledge, the world is being drowned in the dark Ocean of ignorance. It is the absence of this knowledge that has given rise to so much misery,trouble, greediness and slavery in this world. it is on account of the disappearance of this knowledge that man oppresses man; and there is a hard struggle for life every where. Jnana is a true companion of man in this world as well as in the next, while ignorance is his great enemy. When Lord Mahavira attained Kevala-Jnana or omniscience, the world drew a sigh of relief and rejoiced in the hope of obtaining freedom
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