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AN EPITOME OF JAIINSM.
All his friends, relations and dear ones may wish him well, may pray for a long lease of his life on earth; but no body can save him from sinking deep into the bottomless ocean of Samsår which he as a mumukshin desires to get rid of. In this -vein a jiva must think on and on to realise within himself the absolutely helpless condition of his own in this Sansår and therefore must strain his own nerves and thus strive to get rid of it by
his own power and resolute will. (3) Sansår bhavana-Sansdr is full of
sorrows and sufferings. What we ordinarily call pleasure is only pain in another form. Miseries and afflictions permeate as it were every strata of Sansår. In this theatre of the world, we are but so many actors and actresses playing our parts only for the time being after which we shall have to bid goodbye to all we hold dear to us ; so no use forming an attachment for
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