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JavnaDavarovaradarararo
* In fact, it is difficult for the jiva to attain the
human state of existence. Compared to the heavenly beings, the inhabitants of hell and the brutes, human beings are very small in number. Compared to the numbers of the beings in those three states of existence, the number of human beings is inconsiderable. If you get the chance or opportunity of being born as a human being, you must
utilise the opportunity fully. * A diamond is a diamond in the eyes of a jeweller
or of a connoisseur but it is a piece of worthless glass fit to be used as a toy, in the eyes of a grazier
boy. He plays with it and throws it away. * Kindle the light of contemplation in your soul.
Keep pouring the ghee of scriptural studies to the light of contemplation. Endeavour to keep yourself
engaged in spiritual contemplation always. * Death is a dreadful word but death is a truth. It
is inevitable. The contemplation on death has kindled in the hearts of some people the light of sensibility. The light of contemplation gets kindled even by the sight of the flames of the funeral pyre. What you have to do, do it at once. Complete at once the work which you have to complete. Why do you postpone it to to-morrow? The "tomorrow" may
not come. exoeXXXeroxenexe
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The supreme ocean of compassion, the great scriptural scholar, Acharyashri Haribhadrasoorishwarji says this conculding the first Adhyaya in his work Dharmabindu.
दुर्लभं प्राप्य मानुष्यं विधेयं हितमात्मनः। करोत्यकांड व्वेह मृत्युः सर्वन किंचम ॥२॥
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