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them - then for sure, any small or big change in them wouldn’t
affect or deject you. While dying, their upcoming absence
wouldn’t upset you.

Tell me,

You have borrowed someone’s dress, jewellery, etc. for
temporary use. Now will you feel depressed while returning
it to its original owner?

Loss or change in the nature of the object is not the cause of
sorrow but the blind trust and attachment towards it, definitely
is. Vairagya (non-attachment) checks this attachment and trust.
Thus, Vairagya is an effective remedy to eliminate sorrow.

Sulsa was on the highest plane of Samyak Darshan (right
perception). If you want Samyak Darshan possessed by Sulsa,
you have to create the kind of non-attachment she possessed.

Samyak Darshan cannot exist without Vairagya. Hence, if
you desire Samyak Darshan, then develop a feeling of non-
attachment, dislike and mistrust towards the material world
and the so-called pleasures it offers, be it house or shop,
comforts and luxuries, fame and respect, family and friends.

You cannot be assured and carefree that all these will always
remain yours, be favourable, will not betray and disappoint
you. This will ensure mental peace. Look around yourself.
Flip through the pages of history. Have these materialistic
objects ever given permanent happiness to anyone? Have they
proved beneficial all throughout? They have never resulted
in anyone’s upliftment. Inspite of this, our mind keeps
pinching us.

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