Mysteries of Life and Eternal Bliss

Author(s): Anantprasad Jain
Publisher: Tirthakar Mahavir Smruti Kendra Samiti Lakhnou UP

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beings, in some form or other, has been prescribed in every religion and faith in every country. Worship of idols has very strong psychological effect on the mental set up of any body or any human being, according to the shape, figure, outlook and gesture of the idol of worship.
Even if a religion does not direct to do so, in many cases, afflicted people begin to do so and with time the same things get rooted. Stories of wonders, mythology, strangeness and extraordinaryness had always the greatest fancy for man. These and many other factors of living and environments have been the root cause of much distortion of real faith and true religion and religious practices. Religions have been drifting or going away and away from real spiritualism in this way. Unrealities, mythology and falsehoods have become current as truths and realities; with the advance of time, truth faded away and obscured by the splendor or gorgeousness of these untruths and mythologies etc.
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