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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
attain perfection. If you come under its impact, you will be liberated from all desires and cravings. To those who are young and inexperienced; who lack intellectual maturity; who have not been initiated into the right modes of conduct; who have not attained the doctrines of the Paramatma and who have not digested them, the Agamas are vast and boundless, but for others in the world they are like a beautiful garden and they also contain guidance regarding the way to travel through that garden.
We can get all kinds of things in the garden of scriptures. If you cultivate land for food-grain you will get food grain. But you get grass freely without having to work for it.
A HOUSEHOLDER AND A SADHU :
The endeavours of a householder bring him worldly prosperity and what a householder cannot get by all this endeavours, a sadhu attains by means of his spiritual endeavours. Both householders and sadhus have to carry out endeavours. A sadhu's sadhana has speed whereas a householder's sadhana is slow. Even a householder can attain moksha but it takes a very long time to attain it. How many years would you take to travel to America in a bullock cart? For such a travel you require a plane : A sadhu renounces everything but a householder renounces worldly things one by one. A householder's movement is slow; therefore, he needs force. A sadhu attains his objectivewithin a few births but a householder has to live through many janmas to attain what a sadhu attains speedily.
THE GREATNESS OF SMALL QUANTITIES:
A householder can become a sadhu, If that is not possible he must drink the nectar of the Paramatma's doctrines, and if he thus imbibes those doctrines, they will function like small pills. The stanzas in Dharma Bindu are short ones. They are like tiny homeopathic pills ; yet they produce a tremendous effect on the soul. The right
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