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GURUDEVA SMRITI GRANTHA Water takes the lower level and so does human habit. It is easier to adopt evil habits but it is difficult to get over them. Diseases are ipfectious, good health is not Evil thoughts and evil habits spread and gather momentum and then they
Not become a normal feature of life and the public conscience becomes deadened only that, but even sound principles are but to unsound uses. The principle of equality of sexes meant to prevent the exploitation of women by men, has resulted in doubling the consumption of wine and cigarettes. The freedom of women from slavery of the husband has thrown them into the slavery of the capitalist to supply him with cheap labour. Perhaps there is not aprinciple which has not been misapplied in some way or other, because the application depends on man's tendency and man's tendency as we have said above, takes easily to lower levels Man cannot risc above his weaknesses and so naturally justifies all his actions Then there is not an evil in the world, in support of which intellectuals cannot find an argument Common people follow the intellectuals and thus the lower lever of bebaviours becomes the general standard Then came another group of intellectuals--the philosophers who preach the theory of Realism Anybody who preaches against his, any body who preaches about raising the moral level by self-control, a spirit of self-sacrifice and similar things which were regarded as the foundation of character is called amania having some psychological defects. All the ancient sages and saints and religious teachers are placed in that category and their teachings are charged with thwarting the personality of a human being
Thus no incentive is left for the development of those qualities which were called noble and were regarded the foundation of character, individual and national and which were prized and guided human behaviour. Those qualities are no longer the ideal now The ideal is more and more physical comforts and enjoyment with no limits The natural consequences of this ideal cannot be other than what have been described above.
If man has to survive, he must change his ideal. He must appreciate that he is not only matter-body, but is a combination of body and soul and that soul has got certain basic properties and his ideal should be in consonance with those qualities and not antagonistic to them. In usual parlance, we say, man should have a healthy mind in a healthy body This means nothing more nor less than, that man should aim at a healthy body and a healthy soul For keeping the body healthy, you must know how to tend it, you must know the laws of keeping it healthy and you must know what is a healthy body. Similarly for keeping your soul healthy, you must know how to tent it, you must know the laws of keeping it healthy and saving it from epidemics and disease and above all you must know what is an ideally healthy soul For your body you know that foreign matter spoils its health is to purge your body of the foretgn matter. Similarly, in case of your soul it is the foreign matter that wars its inherent qualities and your aim should be to cleanse your
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| SR No. | 010772 |
| Book Title | Ratnamuni Smruti Granth |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Vijaymuni Shastri, Harishankar Sharma |
| Publisher | Gurudev Smruti Granth Samiti |
| Publication Year | 1964 |
| Total Pages | 687 |
| Language | Hindi |
| Classification | Book_Devnagari |
| File Size | 21 MB |