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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
If a dog bites you, would you also bite it?
The Buddha said, "He has become devilish. Shall also become a devil ? Shall I stoop to that level? He is revealing his nature and I am revealing my nature. Shall I also behave like him?"
The Kshatriya had become blind with anger. He had no words to speak out; so he spat. He experienced a kind of peace by doing so. The Buddha said, "I am not going to behave thus''.
Here is an instance from the present-day iife. If someone is angry and is shouting abuses into the phone, you can say, "wrong number'. That would be enough. His anger would at once come down to the zero degree.
If there is no one to hear the words of an angry man he will himself cool down.
You must always keep this point in your mind, "If react violently to the words of an angry man his anger would increase". Where there is a reaction there is agitation.
Where there is a reaction there is total ruin.
Where there is violence there is a decline.
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If someone hurls abuses at a saint, he will remain calm; he does not react to those words. At last, the man who is insulting the saint using abusive words will become tired and will grow silent. He who tolerates such abuses does not experience tiresomeness.
If a man who endeavours for something does not get the fruit for which he endeavours he will give up his endeavour at the end. He will stop his endeavours on account of tiresomeness. That Rajput was also tired of hurling abuses at the Buddha. Because there was no
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