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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
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This has been said hy a poet by name Soktha. It means that words are precious. “Speak such valuable words if you can. Give expression to your thoughts after thinking well.”
We should cultivate the habit of speaking out our thoughts after filtering them, with the sieve of thought. fulness. An English writer says, “Look before you leap and think before you speak.”
A certain king had a dream in which he saw all his thirty-two teeth falling off. The next day, he asked his astrologers to interpret the significance of his dream. One said, "All the thirty two members of your family will die one after another before you.” On hearing this, the king was greatly sad. Another astrologer told the king that among all the members of his family, he was endowed with the longest span of life. This made the king cheerful. Both the astrologers said the same thing but there was a difference in the way in which they expressed the idea. The first one lacked cleverness and spoke bluntly. The second one was clever and he said the same thing in a pleasing manner. That is why, the two statements had two opposite effects on the king.
It is not proper to reveal a secret about somebody though that may be the truth, if it harms the person. We should always speak the truth no doubt, but we should speak the truth that is helpful to others and
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