Way of Life Part 3

SR No.: 006515
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Bhadraguptasuri
Publisher: Vishvakalyan Prakashan Trust Mehsana
Publication Year: 1986
Total Pages: 348
Language: English
Classification: Book_English & Religion
File Size: 18 MB

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CONDO
* Various traditions have various methods of worship. Instead of being entangled in controversies relating to the various styles and ways of worship, you worship the Lord in accordance with the tradition in which you have faith and which you know thoroughly. It is futile to keep wrangling over the rightness or otherwise of any style of worship. What really matters is devotion.
*Hospitality to guests is a great Dharma.
It is this dharma that sowed the seed of Samyaktva (righteousness) in the soul of Bhagwan Mahavir, in his janma, as Nayasar. The foundation of Tirthankaratva was laid then.
*Your life will become imbued with Dharma (spiritual excellence) if you act properly, if you carry out your duties properly, and if you have proper dealings with others in every situation of your life. If you keep performing the austerities of the Darshan (seeing the Lord): Vandan (saluting the Lord); Pujan (worshipping the Lord), and Sthavan (glorifying the Lord), sometime or the other the pinpoint of your heart will open out overflowing with bliss.
*The fountain of love for the Paramatma will surge out from within. Then the experience of bliss becomes natural and automatic.
* While rendering service you should not feel that you are bestowing a benefaction. You must concentrate your mind on doing your duty.
DISCOURSE 70
The ocean of supreme compassion, the profound scriptural scholar, Acharya Shri Haribhadrasooriji, while expounding the ordinary principles of the grihastadharma, mentions the nineteenth ordinary principle namely, "Rendering proper service to Gods, Guests and Destitutes".