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Hearing this, Bhima became enraged; and roared, "If I do not break that thigh and drink that blood, I am not Bhima."
The arrows of speech were thus released without restraint and the consequence was the Kurukshetra war.
Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
Wars orginate in our hearts and minds. The second world war originated from Hitler's mind. What kind of end did Hitler meet? How did he die? If you know this you too will pity him. He had to die in a very pitiable manner. He had to shoot himself. Before shooting himself he said to his confidante, "After my death, pour petrol upon my body and set fire to it".
Hitler, the mighty military hero, under whose iron heels the whole world shuddered with mortal dread, had to die thus in utter despair and humiliation, probably realising at the end that life is but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more and that all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death.
Hence, there is the need for a proper restraint on our speech. All dissensions originate from speech. Noble things also have their source in speech. Speech can bring about a hell or a heaven.
Today people do not exercise restraint on their speech; they do not scrutinise their soul and they do not ponder over tatvas. They do not even care to entertain the question "Who am I?"
THE INDIGESTION OF INTELLIGENCE :
Now-a-days, there is what may be called indigestion of intelligence and it may lead to our total ruin.
Scientists have made the atomic bomb. What will be
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