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Aaisa Sogan jarur karnā Dhanki gante ghar me dharnā Tyag karungi mai be nath
Chala karungi tumre sath.
Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
"We should certainly make such a sacrifice (as brings a benefit). We should bring home such bags of money. My Lord! I too will make a sacrifice. I will follow you in this habit of making such sacrifices." Self-sacrifice is nece.sary for the attainment of spiritual bliss; not to attain worldly delights. How could that ignorant wife know this great truth?
A man should endeavour alone to attain spiritual felicity. It cannot be attained by people in a group because if many people gather together there will be confusion and disturbance.
Namiraj was the king of Mithila. Disease, old age and death follow every individual. Namiraj was no exception to this law of nature. Once, a terrible fever began to shake him to the depths of his being.
The doctors suggested that sandal-paste should be smeared to his body. His thousand wives who desired to attain merit (punya) by serving their husband began making sandal paste. The clinking noise of eight thousand bangles worn on the two thousand hands of the queens filled the palace. It increased the king's headache and his mental agitation.
When the chief minister came to know of the cause for the king's mental agitation, he conveyed a suggestion to the queens. The suggestion was carried out at once. When the noise stopped the king wondered if the queens had stopped making the sandal-paste. He also made enquiries with the minister. The minister explained to him. "Oh king! They are making the sandal-paste. There is no noise because the queens have taken out their bangles from their hands leaving one on each wrist."
This made the king contemplative. He realized that peace could be attained in solitude not in company. He realized that it was very hard to attain peace living
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