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

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________________ Mahavira & Conquest of Mind / 85 5. Spiritual Study Both the eyes together present to us one truth. Walking teaches us to bring about uniformity in both foes and friends. So long as we have different visions of the two, till then our hearts will remain turbulent, it will remain shackled in lust and prejudice. Stagnation is inaction, moving on is dynamism. If our first step is correct, then only our journey of thousands of miles is correct. Only he can be a hero of the Olympic of the future, who practices the philosophy of action. May be the one who practices the philosophy of action, will have to take gulps of poison, but the future will dig up in his soul, a foundation of the nectar of life. The pleasure which is capable of rendering the future happy, only that is to be enjoyed at present. Due to unawareness, even misery feels like happiness. Every person wakes up when death arrives. But after the arrival of death the only thing that remains is repentance. Every present becomes past and every future becomes present. The cycle of time moves on the axis of transience. If we abstain from sawing, watering and trimming,

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