Book Title: Key to Happiness
Author(s): Jayesh Mohanlal Sheth
Publisher: Shailesh Punamchand Shah

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________________ will be according to your gati (the next life/birth) only. Hence those 4who desire samadhi-marana, it is essential for them to live their entire life religiously coupled with Samyagdarshana. That is the reason why all your efforts in your entire lifetime should be towards acquiring Samyagdarshana because all your auspicious notions in the way of acquiring Samyagdarshana are useful otherwise it is useless for curtailing the vicious cycle of the transmigration. Even after acquiring Samyagdarshana one should not indulge in any pramada (unawareness of being soul / sloth, indolence, inertness) because it is Lord's precept that one should not indulge in pramada even for a samaya (smallest fraction of a second). Everyone should concentrate on one's own manifestations only and desire to improve them only. Do not ponder about 'what others are doing?' or 'what others will say?', rather ponder on what is proper for me. Do not indulge in arta-dhyaana (the contemplation on likes, dislikes, desires of having something or not having something, worries, etc.) and raudra-dhyaana (feelings/notions to possess and protect more than one needs, to usurp things belonging to others, adulteration, to seize someone else's happiness, abusing and quarrelling, etc.). In 36 KEY TO HAPPINESS

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