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Why do we not understand that we have created Inental partitions? Because we have not understood the impartial rain and wind and sunlight. We have not seen that pure universal vibrations are also open to all. We must open our sails so that our boat can move. We must open ourselves and change our awareness so that we can receive the fresh breeze of blessings which is always in the universe. When we change our perception, we are ready to receive.
Mahavir, from the time he left home and renounced the palace, practised living in a state of fearlessness, which is neither attraction nor repulsionit is being in balance; it is being filled with love. He meditated on making every moment of life a chance to be loving, whether people received him well or pushed him out, whether they gave him praise or abuse, whether they offered him alms or not. He took love as a process, as an experiment in his life.
. Once a shepherd met him on the way and warned him: “Stop here because a little distance up that road, there is a big cobra. It has killed many people.” Mahavir meditated on Maitri-universal love, saying to himself: “It is a beautiful occasion to test my love. Let me see if I have assimilated love in all the cells of
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