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Jainism stresses more on the improvement of thought because it considers thought to be always the parent to the act. Now if one entertains good thoughts one is sure to act wisely and for this, one should have absolute control over one's own mind. Even Rishi Valmıkı has said in Ramayana, "Forbearance is an ornament to men and women alıke: Forbearance is charity, forbearance is virtue, forbearance 18 sacrifice, forbearace 18 fame, forbearance is righteousness, in fact the entire world rests on forbearance" One is not supposed to achieve this sort of control in a day by simply wishing for it, but gradually if one takes up into one's heart to have it with a firm volition and acts for that in the night direction, a time will come when there will be hardly anything that can imtate either him or her, and nothing, that can impel one to anger, instead one is sure to get a matchless brightness and charm of nature and disposition, a brightness and charm one could scarcely imagine; a buoyant, cheerful, hopeful and sunny nature that will bring not only joy, beauty and power for one's own self but much hope and inspiration for all the world An experience of a gentleman which I mention here will be of interest to the readers: Once an elderely gentleman, distinguished for his youthful nature and energy, was asked what he used to preserve these qualities in him. He replied cheerfully, "I used for lips, Truth; for the voice, Prayer; for the eyes, Pity; for the hand, Charity, for youthful appearence, Uprightness and for the heart, Love."
