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Mahavira is no brother to me nor Kanada etc foes Never did I come across any of them However, Mahavira's virtuous preachings have enthrilled us and drawn us to his shelter 1 Tirthankar was not our father nor Kanada etc our foes Tirthankar never gifted us with gold nor Kanada robbed us But Mahavira is absolutely beneficial to the world and his chaste word redeems all evil Hence subscribe to his faith * I am not biased in favour of Mahavira, nor averse to Kapila etc I am committed to the preaching that is truly rational 3 Lord Mahaviral Your word sometimes supports the providence, at other times calls events as spontaneously occurring or ascribes destiny to the temporal factors At times you hold the deeds of the individuals as the mould of their desert, at other times find another's deeds project their moral reflection on the individual The miracle is that none blames you for these paradoxical utterances 14 As all the rivers pour themselves into the ocean, so all the views pour themselves into your philosophy But these views don't reflect you as the rivers fail to reflect the ocean You were freed of the world by following the doctrine that it is the self that generates the world, merges into it and frees itself of the world At any time, in any form and accepted name, if one is shorn of all attachment, that one is you alone My
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