Dashlakshan Dharm Puja

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Uttam Satya Dharma (3) - Truthfulness: To speak affectionate and just words with a holy intention causing no injury to any living being.
Uttam Sanyam Dharma (374) - Self-restraint: To defend all living beings with utmost power in a cosmopolitan spirit abstaining from all the pleasures provided by the five senses - touch, taste, smell, sight, and hearing; and the sixth - mind. Uttam Tap Dharma (3) - Penance or Austerities: To practice austerities putting a check on all worldly allurements. Uttam Tyag Dharma (37) - Renunciation: To give fourfold charities, Ahara (food), Abhaya(fearlessness), Aushadha (medicine), and Shastra Dana (distribution of Holy Scriptures), and to patronize social and religious institutions for self and other uplifts.
Uttam Akinchan Dharma (3743)- Non-attachment: To enhance faith in the real self as against non-self i.e., material objects; and to discard internal Parigraha () viz. anger and pride; and external Parigraha (ч) viz. accumulation of gold, diamonds, and royal treasures.
Uttam Brahmachary Dharma (34) - Chastity
or celibacy: To observe the great vow of celibacy; to have devotion for the inner soul and the omniscient Lord; to discard the carnal desires, vulgar fashions, child and old-age marriages, dowry dominated.
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