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peace lies in contentment. By contentment soul obtains equanimity, discrimination and lasting joy. Attachment to objects is the destroyer of reason. Certainly, for the conquest of the senses, freedom from all possession is a must.
Mahavira said, “The renunciation of attachment is useful for controlling the sense-organs as the mahout's hook is useful for controlling an elephant and the moat for protecting a town. A monk who is totally detached, calm and serene in his mind, attains that blissful emancipation which even a universal monarch cannot ever have.'
Equality, tranquillity and austerity - these three are the constituents of a true monk. Renunciation consists in abstaining from sweet food, objects that arouse attachment and hatred and habitation that causes the sense of mineness. Absence of attachment for home, family life etc constitutes detachment, and reduction in defiling instincts of anger, arrogance, deception and greed and is a convenient method to achieve onepointedness of mind which can also be achieved by practice.
Mahavira said, “A true monk is one whose limbs, speech and senses are under his control, who is forever immersed in the contemplation of the self, and who understands the true spirit of scriptures."
Monk observes self control, vows and austerities and attachment and aversion do not cause any disturbance or tension in him. He does everything carefully and with proper restraint and maintains calmness. Use of things consciously not virtually binds him. The monk have compassion on all beings; he is of a forbearing nature, restrained and chaste and maintains
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