Istopadesa The Golden Discourse

Author(s): Vijay K Jain
Publisher: Vikalp

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Verse 23
ज्ञानस्य ज्ञानमज्ञानमज्ञानस्य प्रयच्छति । आराधना कृता यस्माद् विद्यमानं प्रदीयते ॥
(6-34) Adoration of (right) knowledge results in the gain of (right) knowledge and adoration of wrong knowledge results in the gain of wrong knowledge for only that can be given which one possesses.
No man endowed with the capacity of thinking and the power of discrimination will ever want to make prolonged, concerted efforts for accomplishing a goal in a particular direction only to realize later that the efforts were misdirected. We must, therefore, earnestly seek right faith and right knowledge as we embark on the spiritual path. In the life of the man who has acquired right faith and right knowledge, the observance of the prescribed rules of conduct becomes a natural course.
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