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88 / Lord Mahavira
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Solution of Problems
The crow cannot see at night and the owl is unable to see during day, but an untruthful creature is born like that blind man who can see neither at night, nor during the day. The untruthful man lacks real vision and real knowledge. He remains ignorant and untouched by the knowledge of difference between the body and the soul. An untruthful man as a result of his pre-formed and pre-decided untrue impressions remains ignorant and unknowledgeable of ultimate reality. One can get across with the help of the boat of wisdom and oars of unblemished vision. The learning of the learned lies in both the attainment of practicing the known truth and knowing the moralized truth. An atom of conduct is more effective than a ton of speech. Aman should use the scissors of modesty even on his intoxicated knowledge. Untruthfulness is the constriction of a cobra. Hanuman gets himself tied up in it, but he unties it too. We are our own Hanuman. Let us disintegrate the cobra-constriction of untruthfulness, the shackles keeping life in bondage, with the help of truth and rationalism.
Let the sun of rationalism rise, so that the darkness of untruthfulness comes to an end.
