Golden Steps To Salvation

Author(s): Padmasagarsuri
Publisher: Arunoday Foundation

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give up eating brinjals. I did not say that I would not cat brinjals.”
The listener was angered by the scholar's explanation and he never attended his discourse afterwards.
"Flourishing the hands, preceptors preach lofty precepts to others but if the preceptors do not practise what they preach, then for them precepts are things to be sold for money. They preach and receive money offerings in return just as we buy things in a bazaar. Those preceptors who consider ethical precepts as things to be sold for money are unfit to be preceptors."
Those preceptors who do not practise what they preach have no right to open their mouths to preach to others. Kabir has said :
करनी कर सो पूत हमारा, कथनी कथै सो नाति । रहणी रहे सौ गुरू हमारा, हम रहनी के साथी ॥ Karani karai so poot hamārā
Kathani kathai so nāti Rahani rahai so guru hamārā
hamrahani ke sathi. “One who acts is our son, one who talks is grandson, one who lives with character is our Guru. We are companions of character." Their teacher taught the Kauravas and the Pāndavas :
" U I a II"
Satyam vada. Dharmam chara. "Speak the truth; carry out or practise dharma or duty."
The next day the boys remembered what was taught to them and recited it but Yudhisthira could not remember his lesson. The teacher rebuked him. On the third day also Yudhisthira said the same thing. He said that, he could not remember the lesson. The teacher got angry, reprimanded him and beat him.
After being beaten thus Yudhisthira smiled and said, "By your kindness now I remember the lesson."