Awakening

Author(s): Padmasagarsuri
Publisher: Arunoday Foundation

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(Keep your mind cheerful since that is the means of
attaining all objectives.)
Once, the great Jain saint, Anand Ghanji said:
“ चित्त प्रसन्न रे पूजन फल कयूँ रे gon Grafoza g3 11
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Chitta prasanna re pujan phal kahu re Pooja akhandith eh ||
According to him, the felicity of the mind is the truest worship of the Lord. The man who is cheerful is always surrounded by friends because cheerfulness has a magnetic power of attracting people. If anyone is sad or melancholic; if he narrates his miseries and sorrows to others; If he laments over his misfortunes, he makes others unhappy and such a man loses all his friends gradually; and ultimately he has to be lonely.
Therefore our concern should be to keep our minds happy and free from worries, perplexities and perversities and to fill them with noble thoughts.
Vulgar films and film-songs have caused greater loss and damage to the world than nuclear weapons because vulgar movies pervert the minds with low and sensual desires. The same thing can be said with respect to the effect produced by vulgar fiction on the minds of readers. We should keep all these things away
from us.