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born as a Sthanakvasi it is a wrong one, or if you were born as a Deravasi, it is a wrong one. It is not the question of changing communities. But the reference is to the discarding of your misconceptions and wayward beliefs that arise out of not understanding the accepted principle, customs and mysteries of the community which you follow. Discard the differences! It is not asking you to change your community, but there are many ignorant jivas who mistake it as saying that the community into which they were born is not perfect, so they abandon it. Then the fools go on to say that their religion is different from ours. Oh those fools! Can religion differ? Are we all souls and you inanimate? We both are souls, then how can the religion of the soul be different? But do they want to get to the truth at all?
Brothers! Pardon me for using harsh words, but the one who does not understand the principle, does not recognise the religion of the Soul, goes on to change the community out of ignorance. As if changing the community too has become a fashion of the day. What would you call such ignorant people? This act of changing the community is no different from shifting the deadman's litter from one shoulder to another. If one shoulder tires and if the weight of the litter is shifted from one shoulder to another, it makes no difference to the dead-body. It remains dead. In the same way, if the person changing the community cannot achieve the goal of the Soul, if he cannot awaken the dormant energy within him, then of what good is the change?
Brother! The Lord Jineshwar has asked us to understand the principle and follow it. If your curiosity is strong enough then wherever you are, in whichever community you may be, you can know, understand, contemplate and perform while being there. Well, if you are prepared and worthy, you do not have to go looking for it anywhere.
Test the principles that your intellect and imagination have accepted, and regularly study the scriptures and the principles
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