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* You must select a proper and auspicious site and build your house on it. This is the ninth ordinary principle of the grihastadharma. While expounding this grihastadharma, the author of the grantha has in his view two very important points :
(1) Fearlessness and (2) Conformity to some
rules of noble conduct. * If the principles and practices of your neighbours
are ignoble, your principles and practices may be sullied ... This happens if you are careless.
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A strong sexual passion does not allow a man to remain a man. It makes him a devil or an animal..
Even if your house is a very large or a palatial one, if it is located in a lonely place or in the neighbourhood of uncultured people, you should not reside in it.
These points are to be taken into account not merely from the point of view of dharma but also from the point of view of the peace and felicity of your family ....For this reason, those points must be taken into account and this is absolutely essential. Association with disreputable people; and bad
company are things that can cause much harm. NoendervoarMBNOOKOON
DISCOURSE 54
The Supreme ocean of compassion; the profound scholar, Acharya Shri Haribhadrasoorishwarji has given a beautiful exposition of the gradual steps of the path of Moksha, in his magnificent work, Dharmabindu. At the beginning, he expounds the ordinary principles of the grihastadharma. He has described 35 ordinary principles of the grihastadharma. These thirty five principles constitute the foundation of human life. They constitute the basis of human existence. They are the
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