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rebirths and throw us in the dungeons of hell.
Continuously contemplating on all these points is
also an endeavour to intensify your non-attachment.

4) Another effort in this direction includes reading our
scriptures and the motivational preachings of the Jinas.

Do you really feel the urge to increase your non-attachment?
Does the material world seem worthless to you? Do you want

to increase your contempt towards it? Then constantly exercise
the above 4 remedies. This is the real effort to increase your
Vairagya and thus to expand the unlimited power of the soul.
Constantly strengthen your efforts, the real non-attachment
will show its colours and the soul will thus become glorious.

Without Vairagya, the soul has no glory.

Without this glory, what is the point of renunciation, penance
or charity? With the above four factors in mind, Sujyeshtha
started reflecting on the current situation; what was in her
soul’s benefit and what was not. Her mind and thoughts
were deeply influenced by the preaching of the Jinas. As if
these preachings were telling her –

What do the preachings of the Jinas tell Sujyeshtha ?

O noble lady! Do not get misguided. You saw the nature of

these relations, right? Shrenik’s love? Chellana’s affection? How
much did your assumption work? Didn’t your trust shatter
and break like pieces of glass? All was set and a mere delay
of a few seconds changed the game! How can you trust time?

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