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Sacrifices
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a packet. Why?
are to be made; not in retail but or wholesale basis. How are you going to make such sacrifices ?
I AND MINE:
Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
As long as match-sticks have the power of catching fire and burning, they are kept in a box under control and when they are struck against the match-box and when their power to burn IS exhausted, they attain freedom. Automatically, they become free. They are not again put into any box.
In the same manner as long as our passions like attachments and hatred, which can burn us and others, are within us, we have to be in the bondage of the body and in that state we have the feelings of " and mine" (Aham and mamatva)
As long as Aham and Mamatva exist in us we cannot attain any spiritual development Those two feelings check spiritual growth. When those two feelings are annihilated our spiritual development begins.
If we part with anything with the motive of getting something out of it, it becomes business with profit as its purpose. But if we give anything without expecting any reward, then it brings us moksha.
Two great scholars of the city of Mathura were invited to a dinner. Pundits are generally fond of delicious food. Moreover, food obtained free is sweeter than hard-earned food.
The two pundits ate SO heavily at the dinner that they could not get up from their seats. The Seth, who was the host, pitied them. He gave them some digestive
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