Lord Mahavira

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

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Mahavira & Conquest of Passions / 63
For living beings, who are floating in the currents of old age and death, dharma is the one and only island, the most excellent shelter.
O Attachment, malevolence, delusion, anger, conceit, worldly illusion, greed, fear, grief, hatred etc. are the factors that are obstacles for the health of the soul.
0 When a man has bad thoughts in his mind, imagines bad things and is overcome by bad memories, he absorbs undesirable particles of matter which make his mind diseased and his body becomes unhealthy.
Truth should be perceived without conscious attention and reasoning.