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Such a practice is enlivened with the spiritual tincture and is no more a torture Renunciation is in itself a source of happiness and hence such beings earn the fruit of satisfaction Such an abstinence implies discomforts which again lend happiness to the individual Hence the emotion of pain may sometimes cause the reverse of it in actual effect
6 The Language of the People for the People :
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The glory of a plant lies in its flower and of the latter in its stamen It is through the stamen that the plant and the flower find an expanse in the wide wide world Similarly does the man find expanse into the wide wide world If the flower of his contemplation is not crowned with apt expression, his contact with life around is snapped.
It is through the words that man communicates with the world Silent communion is a rare phenomenon The communication through gesticulation is also limited It is through words that man expresses himself Language has one purpose to fulfil and that is to bridge the inner world of the speaker with that of the addressee Language has a functional utility Initially, utility aspect is predominant Gradually alliterative and figurative functions make their presence felt When the native function of the language retains its original fervour and its grace is spontaneous, no embellishment is warranted Gradually, when the primal glow is lessened, a language tends to seek embellishment There came an era when the language was reduced to more embellishment That which was created to communicate became a status-symbol Sanskrit became the sole mode for the pedants, a language far removed from the common folk Consequently two clear-cut classes emerged the literary expressionists called pundits and the common vernacularists The language of the class-conscious scholars signified status, while the language of common parlance was looked down upon
Lord Mahavira sought to awaken each individual The means was to communicate with each individual The pedantic
