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CONCLUSION
Although eternal truths have been revealed in the words of Bhagavan Mahavira, still, the doctrines that have taken shape from his words also give solutions to contemporary problems. Indeed the problem is only one, and that is how to be happy. The only task is to get happiness and terminate misery. This is not merely a modern problem; it is a problem for all times and in all regions.
Hence there is not much of a difference between problems of today and problems of all the three time periods. Hence there cannot be any basic difference in their solutions.
How problem
to establish peace and happiness that is the main today.
The importance of religion, faith in it and spiritual ideals in our life is no less than that of air, water and food; but the amount of urgency that we feel for the latter is not to be usually come across for the former.
All living beings desire to be happy and are afraid of misery and try to avoid the latter all the time. But what is true happiness? And what is the true road to it? Since this is not known all their efforts fail.
Air, water and food can meet our material wants, but the causes of misery are to be found, not in the material world, but in the mental world. So long as the flame of delusion, attachment, greed, etc, is burning within, it is not possible to be fully happy. To pacify the flame of delusion, etc., it is highly necessary to have religion, faith and ideal.
The spiritual ideals must be such that they have a link with the realities of life The ideals which cannot successfully descend in life, which cannot be successfully applied in life, they may be
