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TIRTHANKARA MAHAVIRA AND HIS SARVODAYA TIRTHA
One who has mastered the science acquires an undistorted outlook He does neither feel the soul as attachment and greed nor does he feel with differences like right outlook or wrong outlook In his feeling, there is neither impurity nor difference.
“How does your mother look like?” A boy who has lost his mother will readily say, "My mother is like my mother.” “What is her name?” “Why? Mummy!” he will say at once "Is she white-skinned or darkskinned, tall or short, fat or slim ?” To these questions perhaps he can give no reply; for, he has never seen or known his mother in these forms He has known her only as his mother.
Naturally, these questions about his mother are relative to other women, but he has never cared to bother about these. For, to him, his mother is un-compared and uncomparable He did not choose her out of many.
His mother may be white-skinned or dark-skinned, tall or short, fat or slim; but he has heard these adjectives for the first time How can he then give a reply ? May be many others have seen her mother in these lights, but he has never felt it necessary to do so.
The police man may say that the boy does not know his mother, how she looks like or what her name is. Then what do we do? How do we search for her and find her ?
Is it necessary for the boy to know her name, to know how she looks like ? Is it not enough that she is the 'Mummy' as he has called her every day ? Does he then not know his mother, as the policeman says ? Does his mother come before him, will he not recognise her ? Well, definitely he will
May be he is unable to describe his mother in so many words, but then it is wrong, wholly wrong, to say that he does not recognise her To know one is something different from to describe one. May be who knows her village, ability, beauty, colour, size, etc, does not know her correctly; but none else knows her motherliness in the same manner and to the same extent as he himself does. Is it not enough for him ? Is it necessary
