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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
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The auspicious way of looking at things makes lis see virtues in others and it also helps us to realize our defects. This enables us to reform ourselves. In this manner, right seeing creates good men. The wrong way of looking at things makes us feel happy when we see others in sorrow and this kind of attitude impels us to taunt and torment others Moreover, this kind of looking at things creates bad men.
A swan saved the life of a rat which had fallen into water. The rat was shivering with cold. Taking pity on it, the swan took it under its wings. The rat felt warm within the wings of the swan, since the body of the swan gave it warmth and since its wings kept off the cold. But the rat which obtained shelter and warmth under the wings of the Swan nibbled them off, with the result that the swan could not fly. Those who adopt the inauspicious or wrong way of looking at things return evil for good and do not feel grateful to those who help them.
The right view or the right way of looking at things is obtained by us from the auspicious way of looking at things that we learn from the teacher. That is rightness and that is right concluct. That is purity of thought and feeling. Without this rightness of vision, all our austerities are futile. Our worship of the Lord, our Samayik, our devotion, our penance our confessions and all our austerities are fruitless
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