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and reflection coupled with self-experience and scriptural studies. is created the genuiness, by the dint of which a self realizer can gather the potentiality of providụng Erachanging deliberations to the whole world.
I Ought not Molest Any body. "I Give Comfort to All" :
The essence of self-realization should wake in the mind of an individual in such a form that it becomes his firm resolve. "I ought not cause pain to any body and give happiness to all", when such a mental determination of his begins to translate into his actions, he will then activate both the aspects of 'Non-Violence'. In not molesting any body, he will shrink his self-interests and in no circumstances he wțil allow them to go out of that embit where they may harm in any way the vitalities of any other living being.
The sentiment of giving comfort to all will motivate him in the direction of widening his field of philanthropy providing it the strong foothold of Equanimity. By this attitude he will out stretch his soul coupled with the highest evolution of dedicated spirit to the boundary of the universe
Minimise your self interests and maximise cordiality. This should be not only a slogan of the self-realiser but also the motto of his conduct. No religion is higher than nonviolence. The killing of any other being is the self-killing and love for other is the self-love. This empathy emerges in those moments when it is thought that all beings are like me and as I do not like pain so other beings also do not like it. Therefore, one who does not do violence nor make
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