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6. Purification
Mahavira & Conquest of Mind / 87
The world is a bondage. Every creature here is in bondage.
Cause of bondage is connected with the lowest role of the creature.
Untruthfulness is nothing but cheating one's own self; self-deception.
If once the lamp of propriety and realization of truth is alighted, then the darkness of untruthfulness has to return back.
This is quite true that as long as the black clouds of untruthfulness will continue to spread over the sky of the world, the light of the sun of truth will remain faded.
Lord Mahavira says-"as many untruthful people are there, they are all creators of misery. Becoming foolish, they get lost again and again in this boundless world." The entire world indulges in only untruthfulness.
To perceive real as unreal, or unreal as real is untruthfulness, non-knowledge.
Untruthfulness is a perverse guide and inspires improper conduct.
Being imbued with an imprudent mind, a man is obstinate and partial too.
An untruthful man does not just remain immersed in the worldly sea but he gets many people drowned along with him.
