Way of Life Part 2

SR No.: 006514
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Bhadraguptasuri
Publisher: Vishvakalyan Prakashan Trust Mehsana
Publication Year: 1986
Total Pages: 362
Language: English
Classification: Book_English & Religion
File Size: 18 MB

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avaravaavaraardaraavas * You are leading our society towards ruin by giving
great importance to affluent people who are devoid
of Dharma and by encouraging their ambitions. * Day by day, the inoral and ethical values of our
society are deteriorating. We are responsible for
this; not others. * If you can bear with your sorrows with equanimity
and with willingness, the countless Karmas that have gathered in the soul will be destroyed. In bearing with sorrows there should be no Aartha. dhyan (sorrowful contemplation) and there should be no helplessness or destitution.
* The path of salvation is closed to those who are
crazy of fashions; who are steeped in addictions and who are drowned in blind imitations. The jivas that are interested in pleasures and enjoy. ments can never recognise the importance of the
path of salvation. BOXOXOXONGONO NOXer
DISCOURSE 28
The great scholar Acharyashri Haribhadrasooriji has described the quintessence of the ordinary grihasthadharma in his work, Dharmabindu. At the outset, he discusses, at length, the objective of earning money in order to support one's family in one's life as a grihastha or a householder. A grihastha or a householder must earn money and this is unavoidable. The life of a grihastha cannot go on without earning money. A householder cannot become happy by merely earning money. If a householder earns money by illegal or immoral means, his life would be torn with worries and agitations. Though he may have the means for the enjoyment of materialistic pleasures, such a man cannot enjoy peace, equanimity and felicity in his life. Some of you might have had this experience. Have you had this experience ?