Shrutsagar 2019 03 Volume 05 Issue 10

SR No.: 525344
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hiren K Doshi
Publisher: Acharya Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir Koba
Publication Year: 2019
Total Pages: 36
Language: Gujarati
Classification: Magazine, India_Shrutsagar, & India
File Size: 3 MB

Page 9

SHRUTSAGAR
March-2019 by the strength of the Kalinga army, he asked the king of Kalinga for the reason for such strength among his soldiers. He replied, “Oh king, I love every soldier heartily. They also love one another; so we are united. This unity is the cause for our strength.”
While paying tributes to Mahatma Gandhi, a poet has sung: तुमने अपना प्राण दिया और मौत की शान बढाई। तुमने अपना खून दिया और प्रेम की ज्योति जलाई॥
Thumne apna pran diya aur maut ki shan badhayi! Thumne apna khoon diya our premki jyoti jalayi!!
(You gave your life and increased the greatness of death. You gave your blood and made the light of love burn).
We cannot wash a mark of blood with blood. To wash it we require the water of love. The love of a certain sage transformed the dacoit, Ratnakar into a sage. Mercy is a form of love. It has such tenderness that under its effect even the hardest heart becomes tender. If from the mountain of the human heart always pity, love, affection and kindness flow down as cataracts, sorrows can never exist.
The Lord said, FATIT À Holha ati Huşi a dus ll”
Mitti me savvabhuyesu veram majjham na kenayi (I have amity for all creatures and I do not hate any creature).
The earth produces food for all; water satisfies thirst; air keeps all beings alive; the sun gives light to all; the tree gives fruits and cool shadow to all; the flower gives fragrance to all; when that is so, why should man be selfish and self-centered? Why is it that like nature man cannot be generous, selfless, broadminded and beneficent? To make out lives flower forth and develop we should discard vices and cultivate virtues. The flower gives out fragrance not a foul smell. Is not life also like a flower?
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