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18 / Lord Mahavira
7. Spirituality & Jain Concept
Discover the truth yourself is the motto of Jain concept. The instrument we manufacture and use for discovering facts are all within us. Spiritual awareness has infinite possibilities of development. The whole reality is in-front of us. The whole time facts stare us in the face. But such truth can only be experienced and such consciousness can only be awakened as are beyond time and space. Jain educational concept is based on two facts:discover facts and be friendly towards the discovery of subtle facts. A man who develops an awareness that everyone has the same kind of soul as he himself has and is poised on the same spiritual scales and therefore has to be treated as himself, is truly spiritual. A spiritual man is not a slave to his senses, rather is its master. A spiritual man is one who knows how to refine desires and keeps trying to refine them. Money should be treated as merely a means of satisfying life's basic needs and not as an end in itself. An intensive study of man and his mind is needed for an integration of scientific and spiritual personalities. A combination of a scientific and spiritual outlook alone can offer an answer to the present day problems.
