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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
weeds also grow
attainment of salvation. Just as with crops, honour and heaven come to those who endeavour to attain salvation, but, honour and heaven like weeds take away its glory. Hence, they should not be our objectives.
A man who has to go in darkness carries a torch with him or accompanies a man who as a torch with him or goes after finding out the right way from those who know it. In the same way, a sensible man walks in Samsar (worldly life) with the light of selfdiscipline or in the company of those who have acquired self-discipline or after knowing from them the right path.
If it is not possible to secure the company of men of self-discipline and enlightenment, people can find out what is proper and what is improper by studying the scriptures. Passions and evil propensities lie concealed like lions in the den of the human mind and they leap out every now and then and cause perplexities and worries in human lives. Hence, all enlightened men have emphasized the importance of keeping our minds pure.
A certain poet asked the flute why Lord Krishna loved it so much. It replied that he loved it because it was pure inside, simple and sublime. The mind also is like a flute for the atma which plays on it like Krishna. If it is pure and simple, the soul loves it.
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