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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
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There is no room specially meant for breathing in air so that we may go into it when we need air and stay in the other rooms when we do not need air. In the same manner, there is no fixed time or place for the performance of Dharma. Dharma is necessary in all the phases of life.
Ayimuntha Muni, Hemachandracharya, and various other great men attained self-discipline even in their childhood. Blessed are those that begin walking upon the path of brightness and enlightenment, even from the beginning. The task of carrying out Dharma is easy for them but those people are more blessed who obtain the light of self-discipline after having wandered about in the darkness of worldly desires and illusions because the task of acting according to dharma is difficult for them. They have to put forth greater efforts to drag their minds towards the path of salvation. They have to perform a more severe penance to attain this objective and they have also to be more careful.
To attain self-discipline, the company of (Samyamis or) disciplined people is essential. There is a
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