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Chapter Objective
For breaking the folds of internal darkness, it is necessary to gain illumination, and that needs to be the objective of this life. We are, however, out to gain so many things in life that we happen to forsake that objective. Moreover, we do not remain conscious of the objective and, do not even feel sad for forsaking it. We crave for all the things that we have to leave here ultimately and stay oblivious of the true objective.
The worldly aspects that we pursue are the means of survival, but they cannot form the objective. We, however, treat those means as objectives and pursue them day and night. We thus spend our energy for transient, superficial aspects and refrain from going deep inside. Our life thus happens to be meaningless. We live for the sake of living and when death becomes imminent, we vainly run to the doctors to spare us from that fate. What is, however, the purpose of extending the life, if it is mechanical and purposeless?
We unnecessarily spend time in listening to talks of others. There are six billion people in the world; do we have time to listen to all of them? Even if we give one minute to each of them, the lifespan will be over before we cover a fraction of them. Why not then look to the well being of the soul? Keeping this in mind Lord Mahaveer had said, “Know thyself; if you know the Self truly, you will automatically
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