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Men, who took great strides in self-development.
But their progress did not take place overnight. It
took years. It was not achieved without hard work,
sincere efforts and unshakable focus on one’s own
self. Right efforts lead to right results.

This is how you may inculcate the understanding that the
key to spiritual progress is spiritual wealth, not material
wealth:

1. Constantly try to achieve spiritual welfare and realise that
it is the key to spiritual progress.
2. Prayers
3. Focus on the inner self, not on the body

4. Compare the lives of a true spiritual seeker and a material
pleasure seeker
5. Seek inspiration from great men
6. Satsang : Meet those who are on the right path

7. Read good books
8. Spiritual efforts focused on self-realisation
9. Give up the unnecessary

1. Constantly try to achieve spiritual welfare and realise
that it is the key to spiritual progress.

One should first contemplate on the fact that the Arihanta,
who being omniscient knew the past, present and future, found
that people would be benefited by three things only:

a) GunaSampadana - developing good qualities

b) SukrutaKamaai - practising good deeds

c) Dharma Sādhanā - living life as per the guiding principles
of dharma
The Arihantas were omniscient. If they showed us the path,

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