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wake up and act positively, to fight against evil and to persist in
that battle. He preaches that people should nurture good
thoughts, say god words and do good deeds. Zarathustra calls
people to be well-intentioned and moderate in their desires and
passions, to strive to live in peace and friendship with everyone,
to help other people. Zarathustra concluded that people’s
greatest achievement is to make the good inside them prevail.
This means that people can create their own happiness, but in
order to be successful in their battle against evil, they have to
commit themselves to goodness, honesty and purity.
World legitimacy includes justice, truth, and order. Their opposite
is disorder, falsehood and injustice. Zarathustra admires the
good and wonders how to avoid and overcome evil, he wants to
reward the virtues and punish the bad. Zarathustra is cursing the
negative practices, especially the bad actions of the spiritual
leaders and the world rulers.
He shows what the proper actions of each person should be in
order to have good life for all the people. Zarathustra’s wisdom is
similar to that which is later called philosophy, the disposition of
the mind to know what is true, right and good.
Mahavira Jaina (b. 599 BCE) advocates extreme ethics and
abstention from doing evil. One of his maxims is:
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