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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
success or failure of our life depends on our speech. Therefore, see that your speech is pure, sensible and restrainted.
Let us suppose you have an excellent car. It gives you great delight to sit in it. But if you, in your infatuation, sit in your car, would you travel by it, if your driver tells you that the brakes have failed.
No ! !t may be an expensive car but if its brakes have failed, you would not travel by it.
Similarly, there is the need for restraint on your speech. Unrestrained speech can bring about unforeseen calamities. If speech is not controlled properly, it may bring about death.
On account of Hitler's blunder one crore and eighty lakh people had to die. Because speech lacked sense and politeness, the great Mahabharatha war took place causing the decimation of crores of people during the eighteen days of the war, The Pandavas invited the Kauravas to a dinner. The Pandavas, at that time, lived in a magnificent palace. In one room, the floor was made to resemble water. Thinking that it was water, Duryodhana stepped into it as one steps into water. Seeing this. the Pandavas, especially Draupadi laughed hilariously. In another chamber, the floor seemed to be an excellently and artistically laid out floor. It looked cool and still like marble floor. The Kauravas walked on, thinking that it was a marble floor and they fell into the water. The Pandavas laughed at them. At that moment, Draupadi said something which marked the commencement of the mightiest kind of hostility. She said, "Now, I see that even the children of the blind are blind." She spoke thus without restraint. The Kauravas were enraged. They cried out in a terrifying voice, "Ah. How dare you insult our revered father" Duryodhana took a terrible oath, "If I do not make Draupadi sit upon my thigh, I am not Duryodhana."
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