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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
For example, the cyes can bring progress or decline. We can get noble thoughts by looking at the image of the Lord or we can entertain sensual desires and fill our hearts with unclean feelings by looking at physical beauty. The man who is sensible would never commit the blunder of polluting his heart thus.
There are two ways of looking at life. One is the way of delusion or self-deception; and the other is the way of right perception. False perception reveals unfavourable and adverse things everywhere and true perception reveals favourable things everywhere.
A boy began weeping on seeing a rose-plant in a garden. When he was asked why he was weeping, he said, "There are thorns beside these beautiful flowers". Another boy began laughing with joy when he saw the same plant. When he was asked why he was laughing, he said, "Even among these sharp and pointed thorns, beautiful flowers have blossomed".
The result of the absence of right perception is that we forget what we should remember and remember what we should forget. People forget the words of the Lord, which they hear at the discourse, soon after they return home. But they remember throughout their life the harsh and cruel words uttered by somebody and keep worrying over such words. Even a few words of the Lord can help us if we hear them and
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