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DISCOURSE 50
Answer: Be cautious! Be vigilant ! In case you have committed such a sin in your life, repent it heartily. Make a determination not to commit such a sin again in your life, “I will never experience delight in committing a sin. My weak mind may, any time, entertain sinful thoughts but I will never take delight in the contemplation of a sinful action." DELIGHT HAS BEEN DEEMED AN ENEMY IN OTHER RELIGIONS TOO.
Even those who are not Jains and who do not know the Jain doctrines should not experience delight in committing sins if they consider a sinful action a sin; and if they consider violence, falsehood, theft and ignoble conduct as sinful. Delight has been deemed a sin even in the Buddhistic and the Vedic traditions. No religion approves of delight in committing a sin, if it is really a Dharma or religion. If some people under the name of religion or under the name of doctrines encourage you to take delight in sinful actions, you should not get caught in the snares of their trickery. Even to-day, there are some who preach to people to commit sins with delight. In their Mathas all sins are committed with delight. The so called sanyasis and their followers commit sins in an inebriate manner. They have spread such deceptive snares that innocent, ingenuous and naive people helplessly fall into them easily. They fall into many addictions; ignoble ways and even sexual immorality. They become ruined in respect of wealth, body and mind.
Committing a sin is a blunder; but committing a sin with delight is a more serious blunder. Punishment attends upon a sinful action; but the punishment for experiencing delight in committing a sin, is going to be prolonged and serious. Therefore, consider delight as an enemy; and free yourself from it. If you desire delight, then take delight in doing some noble actions. Take delight in noble conduct. Experience delight in seeing or hearing about the noble actions of others. Such a feeling of delight experienced by you will become Pramod (felicity).
King Shrenik attained from Lord Mahavir this great truth. Shrenik was a man of such a weak mind that he could not
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