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2) Increase your devotion towards the Jinas by their
worship, reverence, meditation, and pilgrimages.
Increase your dedication towards saints by serving and
heartily appreciating them and by dutifully listening
to their discourses. Why do all this? So that this world
seems worthless and all its temporary pleasures seem
futile.

3) The third solution – You come in contact with various
people, objects and situations in the course of day-to-
day affairs. Do not get immediately overwhelmed if
they seem favourable and do not get depressed if they
are not. Consider them from the spiritual point of
view – are they beneficial to the soul or not?

i) Don’t they cause intense attachment and hatred,

anger, greed, lust, pride and ego?

ii) Aren’t those pleasures built on a foundation of
violence towards innumerable small and big living
creatures? Won’t they cause violence in future, too?

iii) Aren’t they responsible for enmity amidst family and
friends?

iv) Don’t they lead to lies, cheating, fraud and other
illegal activities?

v) So wretched is their nature that they make us forget
all religious activities, acts of benevolence and charity,
generosity, God, Guru and Sangha. They spoil our

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