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happy and content. You cannot attain this precious human
birth without practicing Charitra*. Also, you cannot end this
painful cycle of birth and death without practicing Charitra.

Selfishness, ignorance and deceit leads to an unstable mind
which inturn obstructs the feeling of (Vairagya) non-attachment.
It also obstructs children’s feelings of non-attachment and
their desire for renounciation.

Sita’s highly matured behavior and depth and her advice of
courtesy to her sons force us to think that : “How did she
keep her life’s most tragic event just to herself ? Inspite of the
fact that the whole world knew about it, how could she stop
herself from telling this to her own sons ? How is it possible
that she stopped her sons from fighting with Rama ? Instead
taught them to have respect for him and thus motivated them
to go and touch his feet. Doesn’t all this seem fictional ? How
can someone have such a noble outlook and an equally royal
behavior ?

The answer to both the above confusion is –

* Charitra – Lord Mahavir’s path of renounciation
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