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Indra's Exit
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Will you really get lasting peace from this? To-day, you feel that Samsar is meaningless and shallow and pointless; but the same Samsar appeared to you attractive, fascinating and gay and flourishing, when you sat gloriously on your splendid throne".
But his soul which had been brightened by the star of the Jin's words again said :
“Indra! He who does not wake up and attain awareness when he has an opportunity becomes a laughing-stock in the world. Time and tide waits for no man. The defeat you have suffered at the hands of Ravan is only a foretaste and suggestion of the anguish that you have to suffer on account of your sinful Karmas. It would be better if you become aware at once. At the same time, you also remember the vital truth that even if you had attained a victory over Ravan, it would not have been permanent. No victory is permanent in this world. Even that victory would be only a gift of your good Karmas. Would it not be such a thing? Just as the defeat brought about by your evil Karmas is terrible and agonizing, even the victory brought about by your noble Karmas is terrible and it is a cause of decline and ruin. That was why Vali, the valiant cheerfully turned his face away from his tremendous victory and received initiation into the Sadhudharma. You should not forget that it is probably easy to attain a victory over Ravan but it is difficult and almost impossible to attain a victory over your powerful Karmas. In fact, he who attains the unattainable, is called a great man. Those souls which vice's moody mists most blind cannot see this truth. You can see it and you can act upon it.
In the conflict that raged in his mind between noble thoughts and ignoble thoughts, the former were victorious. He contemplated calmly on the Samsar and estimated its value and meaning and decided firmly to discard all his impure thoughts, propensities and actions and began to entertain noble propensities.
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