Book Title: Concentration Author(s): Virchand R Gandhi Publisher: Shardaben Chimanbhai Educational Research CentrePage 19
________________ Self-control. To be free from habits; to be able to taste and take the sweet from the lump of sugar, and, being satisfied, to fly away and leave it, as distinguished from a fly that gets into a sticky substance mistaken for sweet, or into a sweet sticky substance from which it cannot get away when it has had enough. Do not get into a habit which demands gratifying. Right belief. The moral nature must be improved before right belief is a permanent possibility. There are four chief states of mind which prevent right belief, they are : 1. Anger, 2. Pride, 3. Deceitfulness, 4. Greed. The first two grow out of aversion, the second two out of false attachment. Or to use mechanical terms, 10 Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.orgPage Navigation
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