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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
enter the needle eye of dharma, if it has knots and tangles of passions and attachments.
Dharma is the spring of the waters of virtue. We should seek quality not quantity in it.
There were four friends. They bought tickets for Poona and at Bombay-Central station they sat in a train that would go to Gujarat. The train began moving. At Dadarstation, the T.C. came to inspect their tickets. Seeing the ticket of one of them, he said, "There is some mistake in your ticket or you are travelling by this train by a mistake." He saw the second man's ticket and he said the same thing to him also. The first one shouted angrily. "You are wrong! Get out." The third man's ticket also had the word "Poona" on it. Even before the T.C. could say anything he said, "I have my ticket. In fact, you are without a ticket. So, you must get out or sit down quietly." The fourth man, seeing the word "Poona" on his ticket said to the T.C. "From which world have you arrived, Sir, you seem to be ignorant of the fact that our government is run on the basis of the majority's opinion. We four constiute the majority compared to you. We are travelling to Poona with tickets bought for Poona. So, this train must go to Poona. Just because one man, that is yourself, says so, the train cannot be the wrong one. We are right and you are wrong." Dharma or righteousness depends on sincerity and austerity not on the opinion of the majority.
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