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(17) May I be a friend of all without any exception.
(18) Our life, youth, wealth, beauty and the company of the dear ones, all these are as transient as, the waves caused in sea by the wind.
(19) There is no refuge, for the people caught in diseases, in pains of birth, old age and death etc. except in the true religion as preached by Jineshwar.
(20) Oh soul ! birth after birth you have wandered through aeons of time, forming bonds arising out of both-love and hate, with every living being that exists in the Universe. Now how shali you choose any one, either for love or for hate?
(21) When all bonds are transient, the truth is that you are born alone, alone shall you suffer and alone shall you die.
(22) Realise that every thing is seperate from you, every body and every product is distinct, from you. Your own brother is the other person. Not only this body which you love so much is not your own but is a distinct entity, even the soul that endures forever is also seperate from the perishable ego, that thinks and feels that I am. Now what delusion tempts you to lay claim on, or identify yourself with, when nothing is left for you to do so.
(23) Would any wise man prefer to be attached to this human body, which is oniy the storage of dirty things like fat blood, flesh, bones, liver, sex, urine etc.?
(24) How ever well-looked after, this body may be, no doubt, it is perishable in nature. Like a rented house it will have to be abandoned any time at a short notice.
(25) Every living being whether brave or coward must die once. Hence, true wisdom lies in dying such that death itself would cease for ever.
(26) My best and only refuge lies in Shri Arihant, Siddha Sadhus and the religion preached by the kevalis.
(27) Jainism is my mother, the Guru is my father, Sadhus are my brothers and so also are all my co-religionists. The rest is nothing but only Maya (an illusion).
(28) I bow down in respect to all the Tirthankar-Rishabha reside dev etc. I also bow down in reverence, to the Arihants who in Bharat, Arihant and Mahavideh.
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