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apararaavana Barsaioara
* If you are agitated, the cause for your agitation is
yourself. You will cause agitation to others also. You will entertain evil and harmful thoughts relating to others.
* Those who cannot tolerate the progress of others
and who cannot bear to hear the praise of others often happen to be the cause for the sorrows and excitements of others.
paraavanaraavaa
* Do not think ill even of those who do some injus
tice to you. Do not get angry with even those who cause loss to you. Do not pollute your mind by entertaining thoughts of desperation and helplessness in times of sorrow. In some inevitable circumstances, you may have to speak angrily and aloud. If necessary you may surely speak thus but soon you must also endeavour to remove the excitements of those who are near you. If someone knowingly or unknowingly harasses you; at such times, you should not lose your equanimity and you should not entertain thoughts of hostility.
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DISCOURSE 67
The supreme ocean of compassion, the great scriptural scholar, Shri Haribhadrasooriji while expounding the ordinary principles of the grihasthadharma in his work Dharmabindu, describes the seventeenth ordinary principle namely, “Your actions should not cause agitation to others".
You must act in such a way that your actions do not cause any agitation to any jivatma.
Agitation means restlessness. It means anguish. You should not cause agitations to others by word, deed or thought. You should not entertain thoughts that might cause agitations to
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