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annavarnaraamasarar
* I am unable to understand why so much inspiration
and so much exhortation that are being given now-a-days to encourage people to carry out special spiritual austerities and observances, are not being given to encourage them to practise the ordinary principles which constitute the very foundation of Dharma. Some people who are devoid of knowledge and who are inert and indifferent in respect of activity, become the toys of pride and keep wandering aimlessly. They, probably, imagine that they are omniscient or, at least, that they belong to the rank of the omniscient one; and they cause great harm and loss to Dharma.
Aawarawarawarawara
jarraroarbara
* The company of saints and sadhus is the very
spring of amrit or nectar. Whenever your mind is agitated; and whenever your mind begins wandering through the dark lanes of sorrowful contemplations (Arthadhyan) you approach, without delay, noble spiritual heads or saints, forgetting
your agonies and calamities. * Your thinking will be fruitful and meaningful if it
is free from all prejudices. You must pour the ghee of knowledge into the lamp of sense and keep
the light of contemplation burning bright. eNeNeNeNeNonOOrroe
DISCOURSE 87
The supreme ocean of compassion, the great scriptural scholar, Acharyashri Haribhadrasooriji has expounded the ordinary principles of the Grihastadharma in the first chapter of Dharmabindu. These ordinary principles constitute such a beautiful ideology and such an excellent code of conduct that they are unexampled in their own way.
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