Lord Mahavira

Author(s): C R Bhansali
Publisher: M and P Consultancy and Marketing Co Delhi

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58/Lord Mahavira
6.
Wrong Faith
Owing to wrong faith, the attitude of a person becomes perverted.
Religion is as unattractive to a person on the wrong path, as sweet juice to a person suffering from fever, for he cannot relish it.
A person with wrong faith and under the influence of strong passions considers the body and the soul to be
one.
Wrong faith is unbending like a pillar of stone and drags the soul to hell.
Wrong faith destroys all the virtues present in a person. Wrong faith drags the soul to sub-human existence. The soul remains impure as long as it is entangled by wrong faith.
Right faith means firm and final conviction in the reality of nine fundamental principles of Jainism.
One must follow the path with correct understanding, reason and wisdom.
Right faith is a belief in substances ascertained as they are.
Right faith is attained by intuition or acquisition of knowledge.