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* Wherever you live, you have to live with other
people; and wherever you live with other people, you have to make their acquaintance. But carefulness is essential in respect of these points; with what kind of people should you develop familiarity? What is the extent to which you can be familiar and
intimate with people? * Parents should be extremely careful and sensible
in taking care of their children. They should know what kind of friends, their children have. Parental guidance will be effective if it begins in the impressionable years of their children. When children grow up the attempts to control them often bring
about quarrels. * Excessive familiarity is undesirable with anyone.
Many evils can be caused by excessive familiarity.
Familiarity often breeds contempt. * What is the use of that intimacy which destroys
your purity and culture? * Whenever any agitation or anguish arises in your
life try to probe your karmas because they cause anguish and agitation. Sorrows are caused by the effect of the sinful karmas of our poorvajanma
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DISCOURSE 76
The supreme ocean of compassion, the great scriptural scholar, Acharyashri Haribhadrasooriji, while expounding the ordinary principles of the grihasthadharma describes the twenty third ordinary principle, "Discarding excessive familiarity' ( sfaenasia).
Familiarity with others is a necessity in our life. A man has to be familiar with others. After we take our birth in this world, the sphere of our familiarity keeps expanding. Familiarity
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