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Life on the marganusari path (the approach-road to the path of salvation)
not on any particular days. They are Munis, Sadhus etc. Apart from them, if any needy and destitute people come to your house, you must treat them hospitably.
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Rendering service to noble people and enlightened people is the eleventh duty.
II. DISCARDING EIGHT DEROGATIONS:
1) Discarding the habit of calumniating others. We should not calumniate others; and we should not listen to calumny. Calumny is a serious vice. On account of this tendency in our hearts there arise such evils as blackness, annihilation of love and the bondage of the low gotrakarma.
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DISCARDING DESPICABLE ACTIVITIES Just as you should not calumniate others, you should not also do despicable actions with your body, and the senses such as deceiving others, betraying trust and gambling. These will bring us sinful karmas.
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Discarding the slavery to the senses. We should restrain our senses and prevent them from rushing into improper areas. We should exercise a control over them.
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CONQUERING THE INNER ENEMIES : Desire (lust), Anger, Avarice, Pride, Arrogance, Delight are the six inner enemies. We should conquer them. If we are enthralled by them our wealth, purvapunya (merit earned in earlier lives), dharma etc. are harmed.
5) DISCARDING ABHINIVESH: We should not have abhinivesh or undue obduracy or prejudice; otherwise, we earn disgrace.
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Discarding the obstruction to the Trivargas. You should not put forth endeavours to achieve anyone of these objectives, namely, Dharma, Artha and Kama in such a way that the undue pursuit of one causes harm to the others. Your endeavours to achieve them should be such that none of them is affected. Otherwise, our fame and dharma will be affected.
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