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Monday, April 4, 2011

Truth- The Dharma

As soon as a person has managed to comprehend this process, he is bound to start taking an interest in the opposite condition. He comes to realize that money, name and fame, and the like are of no help at all and that what is needed is something better than all these. He then starts looking around for something better and higher, some other way. He continues his search until such time as he meets some spiritually advanced person, sits at his feet and learns from the Truth, the Dharma. In this way he comes to know that about the state which is the very opposite of all that he has so far had and been and done, He comes to know about nirvana and the way to attain it. He arrives at the certitude that this is the goal that each and every man ought to attain. He realizes:"This is why I was born!" Anything other than this is involvement, entanglement, compounding. This alone is the putting out of the flame, coolness, stillness. His interest in nirvana prompts him to seek the means of attaining it, and he is convinced that the treading of this path to nirvana is the purpose for which he was born.

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