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THE WAY OF LIFE
said on The Gita”. Those who do not understand the real meaning can cause much harm.
If you should understand the scriptures, you must possess the third quality namely the power of comprehension. May I hope that you have understood something of the grantha Dharmabindu ? If you cannot understand anything at anytime, it does not matter but do not misunderstand it. Do not understand it wrongly. If you understand it wrongly, you will be ensnared in confusions and aberrations.
YOUR INTELLIGENCE SHOULD BE INCISIVE TO UNDERSTAND DHARMA
Just as an incisive intelligence is an imperative necessity in the sphere of academic education, it is equally essential in the sphere of spiritual education. In order to understand scriptural knowledge one must have an intelligence characterised by those eight qualities. Even if you do not have very incisive intelligence, you can get on in the sphere of academic education and if you do not study you will experience a proportionate loss but in the sphere of Dharma, you suffer great loss if you do not have a sharp and incisive intelligence. The loss is not confined only, to this life. It extends to your future lives. You cannot gain access to the knowledge of such indirectly comprehensible subjects like the soul, karma, the other world, the heavenly world and hell and similar things, if you do not possess a sharp and incisive intelligence. Only when your intelligence possesses excellence can you understand these things. You can make estimations and arrive at conclusions, in these matters, only if you have an excellent intelligence. In matters relating to estimation and determination, you must be capable of arguments and counter-arguments and you must be able to understand arguments as well as specious arguments and for this you require extraordinary intelligence.
Thousands of works have been written to explain these subjects like Atma, Karma etc., which are not directly comprehensible. Such granthas are there not only in the Jain Dharma
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