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DISCOURSE 6
activities are clothed in the garment of Dharma, they do not become genuine spiritual activities.
IT IS NECESSARY TO HAVE FAITH IN THE PARAMATMA WHO IS OMNISCIENT AND WHO HAS ACHIEVED AN ABSOLUTE VICTORY OVER INNER ENEMIES
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Your spiritual activity must be carried out in accordance with the commands of the Jin. Of course, the Jin is omniscient and has achieved an absolute victory over all attachments and inner enemies. The Dharma that he expounded by virtue of his being omniscient and victorious over the inner enemies, is true and real. There can be no contradiction to the doctrine, that he has expounded. When it is examined from the logical point of view, there is no incoherence or inconsistency in it. He, who has destroyed vices and enemies such as attachments and hatred, on account of his perfect knowledge, describes a substance or an object as in itself it really is. A wrong interpretation is given only if we have either attachment or hatred for a person or an object. We describe a thing in a wrong manner when we do not possess the perfect knowledge that is necessary for seeing and understanding a thing or when we have attachment or hatred for anything.
You have a gold necklace with you but you kept it somewhere, some years ago, but you have forgotten that you have a gold necklace. To-day, a friend of yours comes and asks you, "Do you have a gold necklace? I want it for two days". What would you say? You would say, "I don't have a gold necklace". You have a gold necklace with you, but you do not know that you have it. So, what you say is untrue. In the same manner, you may have with you a garland of diamonds; but you do not know whether the diamonds are genuine or merely false diamonds. On account of your ignorance you cannot speak the truth regarding the quality of the diamonds.
IGNORANCE, ATTACHMENTS AND HATRED MAKE US SPEAK FALSEHOOD
You have a gold necklace. You know that you have a gold necklace but you are attached to it. Therefore, you do not like
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