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Purity of Mind
Mahavira said, “Even if a person walks about unclad and mortifies his flesh by observing austerities and fasts for months together, if filled with deceit, he will be born an endless number of times. One who is free of deceit is pure and once he is pure, he becomes steadfast in righteousness. Such a person attains the highest emancipation like the lustre of fire sprinkled with butter. Those who are shorttempered, ignorant, egoistic harsh hypocritical and deceitful drift in the worldly-current as a piece of log in the flow of water.”
One who pays a lot of attention to the physical body and not to the mind, may be physically healthy but not necessarily mentally fit. In short, if one pays attention to the body, mind and intellect equally, there will be a total and perfect integration of the personality. Mind and body are very closely related and affect each other for weal or woe. Body and mind communicate with each other - consciously and subconsciously. For the integration to take place, the only solution is to understand the mind.
Mahavira said, “Like the body, the mind is an instrument of the soul. Once the mind is purified for the highest spiritual purpose of life, all other purposes are automatically taken care of."
Freedom is supreme happiness. Dependence is extreme misery. Fearlessness is real freedom. Freedom from pain in body and freedom from fear in mind are happiness in its highest form. The greatest achievement of the life is mental peace. The impurity of
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