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avaararsaavaavaavaavaara
* You must desire to enjoy such happiness as would
not be censured by others. You must always save yourselves from social censure.
* If you should attain commendable happiness, you
must always act according to Dharma. If you desire to attain commendable happiness in this life ignoring Dharma relating to the practical life and the ordinary principles of the grihasthadharma, you will not attain success in your endeavour.
vaaraovaaravaavaavaadavara
* You must carry out your spiritual activities free
ing yourselves from fear and avarice; terror and
temptation; doubt and dissatisfaction. * Keep taking the guidance of spiritual heads at
every step in your life. If you do so, your life will become firm, organised and disciplined and at the same time, you can save your soul from unneces. sary sinful karmas. Now-a-days, the whole atmosphere has changed. In these changed circumstances, the conformity to the ordinary principles may appear rather unnatural; but yet you have to conform to them. Without this conformity, you will not be able to get on in life in the righteous manner.
* If you build a house neglecting the foundation,
some day the whole house may crack, break and collapse.
DISCOURSE 94
The supreme ocean of compassion, the great scriptural scholar, Acharyashri Haribhadrasoorishwarji after expounding the ordinary principles of the grihasthadharma in the first chapter of his great work Dharmabindu says this by way of concluding his exposition.
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