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286 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
- “That though others may be possessed by sloth and torpor, you will free yourselves therefrom.
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“That though others may be puffed up, you will be humble-minded.
“That though others may be perplexed by doubts, you will be free from them.
“That though others may harbour wrath, malevolence, envy, jealousy, niggardliness, avarice, hypocrisy, deceit, imperviousness, arrogance, forwardness, association with bad friends, slackness, unbelief, shamelessness, unscrupulousness, lack of instruction, inertness, bewilderment, and unwisdom, you will be the reverse of all these things.
“That though others may clutch at and hug the temporal nor loose their hold thereon, you will clutch and hug the things that are not temporal, and will ensue Renunciation.
“I say it is the development of the will which is so efficacious for right states of consciousness, not to speak of act and speech. And therefore, Cunda, there must be developed the will to all the foregoing resolves I have detailed.”
Such is the purpose of religion as conceived by the Buddha.