Three things possess every human being: mind, body and speech; and that is why one claims, ‘I am Chandulal, I am a collector, I am her husband, I am his father.’ Are you going to be a collector forever? No, he will reply, ‘I will retire one day.’ This is another form of possession. If a drunk, lying in the street claims to be a king, would we not know that it is the intoxication of the alcohol saying so and not him. Similarly the possessive influence of the mind, body and speech makes people say ‘I am Chandubhai, I am a conductor, I am a father…’ I am the ‘exorcist’ of the ghosts of the mind, body and speech that have possessed you. I free you from their attachments.  If you simply understand that the mind, body and speech are like the ghosts that take possession over you, you will have learnt twenty-five of the forty-five Agamas (Jain Holy Scriptures). There is no need for you to renounce your wife, children and clothes. All you have to do is free yourself from the possession by these three.

                                                              

                                                                                                                Gnani Purush Dadashri

 

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