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RIŞABHA DEVA No one who has not completely eradicated all tinge of passion, even of sympathy and love, from his nature can ever be qualified to enter nirvāna or to attain to Omniscience which must precede it. After the attainment of Full Knowledge nirvana follows as a necessary consequence, because of the extensive destruction that has been effected in the formations of organising bodily energies (i.e., Karmas).
It is also a delusion to think that you can save all. As a matter of fact you cannot even carry enlightenment to every one. It is a question of the internal psychology of the mind whether an individual is ready to accept the teaching of truth or will spurn it. The souls who are still involved in misery and suffering have not unlikely met some of the great Teachers of the race in the past ; but without having derived any benefit from their association. There are many souls that shall never be saved, as is the teaching of almost every rational religion prevailing today. What, then, will happen to those who do not enter nirvāna from the love of others or for fear lest they be termed selfish? Their numbers will go on swelling from day to day, but they will never have the opportunity to enjoy the rest and repose for which they have laboured and which they have earned and deserved and
