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surely be disunited from them. Therefore, it will be a cause of our misery when we will be dispossessed of them after a short while. We should never get entangled into a fancy for them, on account of this very reason. Just as we saw that there are no objects worth our love, so also there are no objects worth our hatred also. The things for which we have a dislike, also will not stay as such for a long time. This state of affairs follows the inexerable law of the transformation of Pudgalas, the matter. An object of love or biking at one moment is turned or transformed into an object of dislike or apathy, the next moment. Therefore, entertain no feeling of hatred for anything. Do not be proud on getting a thing loved for and do not be sorry for obtain-- ing a thing which is disagreeable. Cultivate, due to this cause, an Attitude of Indifference. (2–3) PERSONS ALSO SHOULD NEITHER BE LOVED
NOR HATED LIKE THE THINGS People also are not of an uinform nature. They are changeful. The religious-minded become irreligious and the irreligious become religious. The righteous turn out to be wicked and the wicked, righteous. The good prove to be bad and the bad, good. So on and so forth. Why should we then develope dislike for these bad people who are to turn out, in a very short time, good ? (4)
EXAMPLES The above mentioned conclusions are not simply ground
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