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omar. As we have more or loss forgotten the past 24 "Tirthame teras', similarly, the future generation will also not be able to remember the present once.
Howsoever important the events and the personages may be those can not be universal and eternal. All of these have limita tions with respect to their own region and time; these can not be everlasting. Therefore, only those festivale can be univartal and eternal which are equally related to all living beings, with their emotions, and not related to any particular personage ar event. "Dasha Lakshana Mahaparva" is one such great festhed which is equally related with the emotions and sentiments of living beings. Due to this reas will be existing for ever. Its usefulness is universal and eternal.
The great festival of tenyirtues ("Dasha Lakshana') doa me belong to a particular sect; it is meant for all. May be, it is celebrated by the people of a particular soct (faith), yet, it is certainly not a sectarian festival, because, it is not based on a sectarian thoughts. It has a universal base. Relinquishing the impure (evil) thoughts and accepting the generous thought forms its basis, which is equally 'beneficial to alt. Obviously therefore, this festival is not of Jains only but is of all and ever one. Believing it to be a sectarian festiv.l is, in itself, a sectari outlook.
Another reason why this festival is of all is that all living beings (mundane souls) want to be happy and are afraid of miscries. The emotions, like anger etc., are the seeds of miseries and are themselves irksome. The virtues, like suprar forbearance etc., are the seeds of happiness and are themsets blissful. Hence, for all people who are afraid of rniseries and wish to be happy, the ten virtues of supreme forbcarance et which emerge as a consequence of abstinence from anger eta.. are highly adorable.
In this way, this great festival of ten virtues, owing to ste being auspicious and a guide to the right path of salvation, in the festival of all.
The basis of the universality of such a great festival of them ates, whose sole objective is the evolution of passionkens tree
