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नो गेगाः नैव शोकाः नकलहकलनाः नारिमारि प्रचाराः, नैवोंध्यम समाधिन च दुरदुरिते दुष्टदारिद्रतानो, नाश्शाकिन्यो ग्रहानो न हरि करि गणव्याल वैतालजाला,
जायन्ते पार्श्वचिन्तामणि नति वसतां प्राणिनां भक्ति भाजाम् || The Jain Swetamber Confrcence Herald.
Vol. 1
August, 1905.
NO. VIII
THE GREAT QUESTION.
Nemchand Modi B A. Sailana.
The great question of the day is "IIow to live happily." There is nothing men are so anxious to keep as life and nothing they take so little pains to keep well. Happiness and success in life do not depend upon the circumstances in which we happen to be placed . but on ourselves. Let us follow the dictates of our conscience contented with what we get and the happiness is ours in whatever walk of life we may be. We can make our life as we choose a triumphal march or funeral procession for happiness, as I have said, is a condition of mind and not a result of cifcumstances. Men of high positions or crowned heads are zot necessarily happier than those in humbler positions, Power, position. pomp, pell, influence, intellect, eren knowledge and genius are not in themselves sufficient to make a person happy if his conscience is not his friend. I may quote the golden stanza as I term it :
“What conscience. dictates to be done · Or warns me not to do
This teach me more than hell to shun And that more than fleaven pursue.”
