Book Title: Awakening
Author(s): Padmasagarsuri
Publisher: Arunoday Foundation

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________________ Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra www.kobatirth.org Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir 99 refrain from speaking the truth that harms others because it is a sin to cause harm to others. Hence, the Mahashraman Mahavir has given this sacred commandment : "You should not speak a truth if by speaking it you are committing a sin." In that magnificent novel, Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, there is a soul-stirring event. A holy man speaks an untruth and saves a robber from punishment with the consequence that the robber becomes a noble person, on account of the impact of the holy man's benevolence. Our speech must be like a mantra, that is, a sacred utterance. It should be brief but profoundly meaningful. On account of speaking haughtily in the intoxication of afluence even a millionaire becomes penniless, and has to go to court for recovering coppers. If you have control over your thoughts, you can have control over your words. Why does the “thandul fish” which is as tiny as a grain of rice, go to the seventh hell ? It sits on the eyelids a crocodile and watches how when the crocodile opens its large mouth, small fish rush out of its mouth and run hither and thither and it thinks “ This crocodile is a fool. It cannot even shut its mouth properly. If I For Private And Personal Use Only

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