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people are totally different. If you want to become like “Krishna”, direct your life to his way. Let your mind enjoy a taste of peace and truth if you want to become like "Harishchandra". Someone asked me, “You have told us how to become 'Krishna' but if someone wants to be 'Kans', then?” I said, “There is no need to tell the way how to become 'Kans', you are little bit Kans in some or other way presently."
Peace is a valuable thing for me. If someone asks me what goal I fixed for my meditation, I would tell that in religious epics I have read to be like God or to get God, grace of God or a great eagerness to feel the presence of God must be the ultimate target of our meditation. I also read in epics that to feel or to get the soul must be the target of meditation but when I read myself; I found the conclusion that to gain the peace of inner conscience must be the target point of our meditation. It is the real peace which cannot be disturbed by any obstacle.
I have heard: once a saint visited a house hold who (the saint) had put on black clothes. The household asked him why he had put on black clothes. The saint replied that his anger, temptations etc. had died so to lament over his griefs, he had been putting on black clothes. Hearing this, the household ordered his servant to get the saint out from his house. The servant followed the order. The saint had hardly gone ten steps ahead, the household sent for him back. As soon as the saint reached to his home, the household again made him out from his home in insulting way seventeen times. But inspite of all this, the saint showed neither anger nor any opposition. At last, the household gave him great respect by telling that he (the saint) was a saint in real. He tried seventeen times to make him angry but he remained silent. He told the saint that he (the saint) had really won over the anger. Listening to the household's words, the
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| SR No. | 006795 |
| Book Title | How to Enjoy Anger and Anxiety Free Life |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Chandraprabhsagar |
| Publisher | Jityasha Foundation |
| Publication Year | 2013 |
| Total Pages | 120 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 11 MB |