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ments and hatred. The words of those who have attachments and hatred cannot be trusted as authentic and true. Yes, this is the most important point !
THE LOGIC OF THOSE WHO HAVE ATTACHMENTS AND HATRED IS WRONG AND ILLOGICAL
Now-a-days, you repose too much trust in the words of people who have attachments and hatred. Of course, you have to trust others in your worldly life and its affairs but you should not trust even the logical arguments of those who have attachments and hatred when they speak of spiritual, transcendental and other-worldly matters. Their arguments and logic would be wrong and specious. The snares of specious logic can blind you even to the truth, for sometime and can even defeat the truth by entangling you in the meshes of wrong arguments. My desire is that you should not be entangled in the affairs of this world. The other-worldly and transcendental truths cannot be determined by means of logic and intellectual analysis. If by such arguments and distorted counter-arguments truths could be established at any time, there should have appeared unanimity by this time; but it has not appeared..
DO NOT WANDER ABOUT IN SEARCH OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF DOCTRINES
If you want to adore Dharma, and in order to practise Dharma if you want to know the real nature of Dharma, you need not wander here and there in search of such knowledge. You have in your possession the Dharma preached by the Paramatma Jineshwar. You have got the Dharma expounded by the Vitrag Paramatma, the omniscient. You endeavour to understand the doctrines of this dharma.
The Jain dharma gives you an extraordinary knowledge of spiritual doctrines that can dispel the dreadful darkness of deep ignorance. This knowledge can eradicate the anguish, sorrow and worry of the inner self. Study the philosophy of anekant. vada which can bring about concordance among ideologies that are mutually contradictory. Study the Nayavad which can
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