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*In order to cover up your weaknesses, do not think that the special virtues of others are but a show.
If you lack some virtues and if others possess those virtues, admire them whole-heartedly.
It is easy to become a man of virtues but it is extremely difficult to admire the virtues of others, because the human mind, as long as there is pride in it, cannot admire and appreciate the virtues of others.
Sympathy is a mesmeric charisma. We can captivate the heart of anyone by means of sympathy. Sympathy needs nothing. Sympathy can perform miracles with the help of a selfless heart, sweet and pleasant speech and patience.
It is a greater achievement to live as a human being than as a heavenly being but this requires, a tremendous effort.
DISCOURSE 90
The supreme ocean of compassion, the great scriptural scholar, Acharyashri Haribhadrasooriji expounds the ordinary principles of the Grihasthadharma, in the first chapter of his great work, Dharmabindu. If all people practise these ordinary principles in their lives, our Indian culture will be a living culture. Now-a-days, you have to practise these ordinary principles in uncongenial circumstances. This endeavour has to be made, if human life is to be meaningful.
The thirty second ordinary principle that has been expounded is " गुणपक्षपातिता" or a partiality for virtues. Always, you must take sides with virtues and live by them. Even if you lack noble virtues, you must appreciate noble virtues in others. For instance :
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