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ONLY ONE BLUNDER
Once there was a city by name Kanakpur. It was a large and beautiful city. King Kanakarath was ruling over the city. He was a man of exceptional intelligence. He had an unflinching faith in Dharma and an extraordinary partiality for justice and ethical excellence. He had two queens by name Kankodari and Lakshmivati.
Queen Lakshmivati had a deep devotion for and faith in Paramatma Jineshwardev. She had got a small but beautiful temple built in her palace and had enshrined in it the image of Lord Rishabhdev made of a precious stone called Sphatika.
She spent most of her time in that temple carrying out worship or other spiritual activities or austerities. She had a firm belief that one could attain prosperity in this world and felicity in the other world by means of the Paramatma's grace and that by his immeasurable grace the soul could become the supreme soul, after having conquered the inner enemies and could attain Moksha. That was her belief. She believed that human beings could attain fulfilment in their spiritual endeavours by means of the imperceptible and the immeasurable grace of the Paramatma.
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Now-a-days, when a person goes to the temple of the Paramatma Jinendradev to worship him he has this idea in his mind, "The Paramatma does not give us anything but we have to attain happiness, prosperity and peace only by means of our own endeavours. Only our endeavours can bring us these fruits". This false notion in the mind of a Jiva prevents true devotion
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