Book Title: Meditation and Enlightenment
Author(s): Chandraprabh
Publisher: Jityasha Foundation

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________________ There is the path of Purification Humanity is the best policy of the world. It is the eye of the world, the halo of existence. Respecting humanity is batbing in the nectar of immortality for the world. The first step towards world-peace is to liberate humanity from internal conflict. How is conflict related to humanity ? Humanity is the staging of light; whereas conflict is the staging of darkness. Darkness begets darkness, and light begets light. Darkness can never be driven away with darkness. The advent of light is but the means of disarming darkness. Internal conflict is a challenge to humanity. It is entitled to peace, not to conflict. Conflict is related to man's mind itself. If the mind itself is torn into pieces and dumped into the dustbin, then the dirtiness of conflict would not spread in the internal house. There are only two alternatives to get rid of the conflict-either, the documents of death are read out to the mind, or it is made ship-shape by washing, cleansing, dusting-off, making it neat and clean. In order to experience the super-vacuum and super-peace in life, both these methods are the blessings of the eternal. Mind is a got-up conspiracy of the microscopic atoms. Its purification is the beauty of life. The awakening of determination, in the person engaged in decorating the house in order to make the heart-chamber beautiful to look at, is the basic-preface to the rectification of complexes. To remain getting jolted between desire and lust is but the life's world-tour at the door of death. Desire must. be born so long as the mind is there, and the lust would also be born so long as the body is there. But to engage mind in running Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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