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THE WAY OF LIFE
for ages. Some jivas do not wake up upto infinity. Even if a Tirthankar appears who can awaken jivas, some do not wake up. When they are not awake, how can they hear ? When they do not hear, how can they understand the truth ? When they do not recognise their enemies, how can they fight against them ? LISTEN INWARDLY; ENDEAVOUR TO UNDERSTAND INWARDLY
If you realise that lust, anger, avarice, arrogance, pride and pleasure are your inner enemies and that they cause unhappiness to your souls and that they cause sorrow to your souls, then I will believe that you are awake. You are awake because you are listening to me. You are awake! But you must be inwardly awake. You must listen to me inwardly and you must understand the truth inwardly. Therefore, you have to traverse inwards. When you once, traverse inwardly you will never take delight in outward life or you have to journey into yourselves, in order to see and understand what is within you. Somehow or the other, you journey into yourselves and see what is there. See the inner enemies like lust and anger that are there deep-rooted in your mind. You will realise that all your thoughts that emerge from your mind are influenced by those inward enemies. If some thoughts are influenced by the passion of lust, some are permeated with anger. If some thoughts are enveloped by avarice, some are excited by arrogance. If some thoughts are coloured by pride, some spring up under the influence of pleasure. In this manner, the influence of the whole band of these six enemies in established over the entire uni. verse of the human mind. RECOGNISE THE INNER ENEMIES
Do you know what kind of hostilities are perpetrated by these enemies against you? Do you know, what happiness or anguish these enemies cause to you ? Understand it; understand it thoroughly. Get acquainted with these enemies who are deep-rooted in your mind in the guise of friends.
Lust is the first enemy. Lust means sexual passion. Lust means the desire for sexual contacts. This lust can be for the members of the opposite sex or for the members of one's own
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