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meritorious ones. Nowhere in the canonical literature is found a mention of giving up the meritorious and auspicious activities.
It is clear that attachment is at the root of all evils. The reason why attachment arises is that we crave for worldly pleasures. Therefore, the activities that do not give mundane pleasures do not mark attachment. The activities that do not mark attachment are not craved and once the craving is gone, the contemplation of the transcendent starts. This is the meaningful contemplation. As the lighted fire douses itself after consuming the fuel, so does the meaningful contemplation cease itself after eating away the meaningless contemplation, and disappears for good. As soon as attachment disappears totally, the total detachment manifests itself and the attainment of eternal liberated life takes place. From this point of view, the purpose of all auspicious and meritorious activities is to take the practitioner in the realm of the transcendental. The activities of mercy, kindness, compassion, charity, service, feeling of friendship, etc., are the means of transcending the senses, body, and worldliness and of attaining eternality. This is the way of attaining peace, liberation and love. In peace there is infinite power, infinite wealth and infinite and interminable pleasure. In liberation there is immortality, indestructibility and eternal unhindered pleasure and in love there is ever-fresh sense of pleasure. Thus, auspicious activities are the means of attaining eternal pleasure of liberation and they do not hinder spiritual emancipation.
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