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* Examine your life closely. Inspect it. You are
afraid of the ghost of fear; are you not? The fires of animosity are flaming on all sides; are they not? Are not the impurities of sorrow and gloom collect
ing in your heart? * Please understand well. If the mundane life were
not filled with sorrow and agony why should we get out of it? The happiness of the mundane life is precarious and dangerous. This samsar is replete
with countless derogations. * Do not come to a hasty conclusion even in matters
which you have personally seen or heard. Think calmly about them. Examine them fully and completely. Whatever decision you take, do not take
it with a harsh and unkind heart. * If there is Dharma in your heart; that Dharma will
protect you. Seek the refuge of Dharma and be
fearless in that refuge. * Why do you ruin your own life and others' lives by
treading on the path of ignobility and lechery ? Return from that foul path to the path of righte.
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DISCOURSE 10
The great acharya, the enlightened soul, Haribhadra Soori says this while explaining the real nature and form of Dharmatatvas or doctrines in his work Dharmabindu.
वचनाघदनुष्ठानमविरुचापथोदितम् ! मैत्र्यादिभावसंयुक्तं तसर्म इति कीर्त्यते ॥
When a man firmly aims at self-purification; and when he decides, “I must purify my soul”, he will at once search for the way to chasten and purify his soul. That way is the path of
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