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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
श्रुतसागर
जून-२०१९
Awakening
Acharya Padmasagarsuri (from past issue...)
The great poet, Shri Shantha Prakash, “Satya Das” has written:
“If I wish, I can melt a stone. If I wish I can show the existence of God and if I wish, I can give life to a dead body and teach it language.”
"If I wish,” that is if I propose to do so, I can do everything. In this world, there is nothing that is impossible.
In an excellent couplet, the great poet, Kabir has expressed the idea that when a child is born it cries and others smile and feel happy and when the child grows up into a man, he must perform such noble actions that when he dies he must smile not caring for death and others must weep thinking that they are losing a great man and that his death is a misfortune to them.
People remember only those great men who help others. You must also help others according to your ability and if some body gives you help you must be grateful to him.
The dog serves its master according to its ability. It never deceives its master. The man who deceives one who helps him is like one who makes a hole in the plate off which he eats his food. Such a man is ungrateful. The man in whose life, ingratitude takes the place of gratitude is worse than a dog.
One man who is grateful to his benefactors inspires ten men to be charitable and benevolent. But, on the contrary, one ungrateful man prevents the emergence of a hundred benefactors. Only a man who knows himself and the nature of his soul can show the quality of gratitude. God's mercy, the mentor's percepts and righteous conduct are essential for the realization of the self.
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