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may be a chant of Bhaktamar Stotra – the eulogy of Bhagawan Rishabhdev - but the extent of devotion towards Bhagawan arising in each mind would differ. One may be experiencing the joy of being immersed in the feeling of devotion while another may be chanting for the sake of it. The feelings of prayer would not even be touching the heart.
There may be many sitting in together for Samayik – the devoted effort to seek equanimity. One person may attain equanimity within while performing Samayik. It may remain only for a little while but it can certainly be experienced. While another may attain more and attempt to practice equanimity in life too. Yet another person may never understand equanimity even after performing many Samayiks.
In the same way, everybody does not see the same results of the various religious rituals-vows-penance-chants-devotion-selfstudy etc. Every jiva has its own different result.
Often, the same reason, a minor fault on somebody's part, leads a person to terrible anger and high excitement, while another responds very calmly and the same reason does not disturb that person at all.
Not just this, Brothers! We all have experienced that a minor reason sometimes affects us very seriously. We start fretting and fuming with anger. We break ties and vow not to speak again. We get disturbed and try to upset the entire situation. But sometimes when confronted with the same reason or something even more serious we remain silent. The mind is not affected at all, we ignore it. When you think about this behaviour, we ourselves feel sorry for our own unusual behaviour and wonder 'why so?' I made such a hue and cry over somebody's petty mistake and here when there is such a great loss, my mind was not affected at all. On both the occasions, the same person was
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