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LECTURE SIXTEEN
SYNOPSIS
*The practitioner has to fight a battle against the enemies which lie within himself.
*The battle begins after the practitioner has declared a truce between himself and the external forces of the enemy. * The battle between Bharata and Bahubali was a battle between the forces of delusion and those of consciousness.
* Bahubali was a practitioner of sadhana but Bharata was
not.
* The power of Prekṣā.
* Prekṣā is a struggle to look deep within.
* A knowledge of strategy and tactics leads to success.
* Śraddha means will or pull.
*Combination of śraddha and dedication.
* Dedication begins with the declaration: I seek shelter * in the Arihamta, I seek shelter in the siddhas (emancipated souls), I seek shelter in the sadhus, I seek shelter in the discipline taught by the kēvalīs (souls possessing pure knowledge).
* Obstructions in sadhana-delusion, idleness, laziness.
* Ten and ten make sixty-this is blind faith.
* Ten and ten make twenty-this is knowledge.
* Four guidelines of success-valour, will, dedication and devotion to truth.
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