Book Title: Ethnicity and Religious Heritage
Author(s): T U Mehta
Publisher: T U Mehta

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________________ 128 Indian Ethnicity and Religious Heritage take a lead to achieve such unity. Qur approach should be how to think and not what to think. We are however trained to think in a pattern. But if this pattern keeps you permanently bound by it, your mind becomes closed in a prison house without locks. Consequently when you are faced with an ieda or challenge of a different thinking you react violently. Is that not what the organized religious and ideological organizations have exhibited throughout the history of mankind? So it is only free and unconditioned mind capable of the reception of all noble thoughts from anywhere, which can uplift the human society. This means that mind must be open to reality and it must confront the givenness of outer and inner worlds without preconceptions and restrictions. Where there is competition, comprison and condemnation, there the openness of mind is absent and conflict becomes inevitable. Hence the real problem is how to make my mind unconditioned. As the above quoted Vedic Rucha says, you should allow noble thoughts to Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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