Mahavira Golden Principals Of Life

SR No.: 269657
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: T J Salgia
Publisher: T J Salgia
Total Pages: 5
Language: English
Classification: Article
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he does not feel sorry for himself who is sinking in the great ocean of mundane wandering!
ROTT W .MUS one should acquire valuable knowledge and avoid what is worthless.
27. Happy are we, happy live we, who call
nothing our own.
20. To the beings in the world, union and
separation, gain and loss, pleasure and pain, as well as honour and dishonour variedly happen.
28. Know that all the earths riches with
crops of rice and barley, with its gold and cattle, will not satisfy one single man; one should practise austerities.
21. In happiness and suffering, in joy and
grief, one should regard all creatures as one regards his own self, and let us therefore refrain from inflicting upon others such injury as would appear undesirable to us, if inflicted upon ourselves.
29. The more you get the more you want.
Your desires increase with your means Though two ounces would do to supply your want, still you would scarcely think ten million sufficient.
22. The fool is not warned by seeing dis
tress overtakeothers; he acts like the man who, seated on the top of a tree in the midst of a burning forest, sees deer and other living beings perish, but does not think that the same fate is soon to overtake him also.
30. Men who, adhering to wrong principles.
acquire wealth by evil deeds, will lose it, falling into the snares of their passions and being held captive by their hatred.
23. You cannot prolong your life, therefore
be not care-less, you are past help when old age approaches. Consider this: "what protection will careless people get, who kill living beings and do not exert them-selves?"
31. Wealth will not protect a careless man
in this world and the next. Though he had seen the right way, he does not see it, even as one in the dark whose lamp has suddenly been put out.
24. Do not spread your own fame!
32. Forgetting that his life will have an end,
a rash and foolish man is full of selfishness; he toils days and nights greedy for wealth, as if he never should grow old or die..
25. The mind of those, who sin in thoughts,
is not pure; they do not conduct themselves carefully.
33. The fool thinks that his wealth and rela
tions will save him; but they are of no help, no protection.
26. One should always be meek and not be
talkative in the presence of the wise;
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