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then how can you give full justice to it? How can you maintain
enthusiasm throughout?

Remove this ignorance – that there are benefits in sleeping
and loss in Pratikramana, benefits in eating and loss in penance,
benefits in spending money for one’s self and loss in utilizing
wealth in religion, benefits in gossiping and loss in religious

discourses.... Decrease in this ignorance will lead to spiritual
upliftment.

Without elimination of this ignorance, how can your life
blossom with true religious faith and consequent religious
activities? It is all interdependent. As religious faith increases,
religious activities increase and as religious activities increase,
there is a rise in religious faith.

We start a particular religious activity due to some flow of

auspicious thoughts and as these thoughts stabilise and
increase, our religious activities also increase. All this is possible
once ignorance is eliminated.

Money and mansions are not the only wealth. Hoard the
wealth of the spirit. Character is wealth; good conduct is
wealth and spiritual wisdom is wealth.

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