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You ought to think that be it the opposite person or our own
           karmas, they can cause obstruction in our external religious
           activities but not in our internal religious outlook and faith.

           A religious outlook – developing or destroying it is completely
           in your hands.

                        Obstacles in the path of religion


              1) Religious activities are likely to be obstructed due to
                 illness etc. Caused by our own previous inauspicious
                 karmas which have come into action OR

              2) Religious activities can be possibly obstructed by some
                 other person,

           But in such circumstances, a soul’s greatest source of comfort
           is the safety of his religious outlook. If it is intact, he has

           nothing to worry about. No helplessness in the first instance
           and no anger or disgust in the second.

                           Kurgadu Muni And Sulsa

              1) Because of Kurgadu Muni’s own inauspicious karmas,
                 he could not stay hungry, fast and observe such
                 external penance. Inspite of this, his internal religious

                 disposition was intact and hence he was not prey to
                 dejection, jealousy and animosity. Instead, he would
                 reflect and condemn his own previous birth’s wrong
                 doings which were showing their fruits today. This was
                 his true religious outlook and dedication in Lord’s
                 preachings which took him to the highest plane of


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