Light Of Life

Author(s): Padmasagarsuri
Publisher: Arunoday Foundation

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ochre- dress, my thoughts and emotions, underwent a similar transformation in consonance with the dress and feautures of Rama". Ravan possessed such tremendous yogic powers that he could assume any form. When he put on ochre- dress, all his sexual desires disappeared and his passion for Sita also became totally pacified. Ravan said, "Whenever I tried this method, this happened and so I gave up that attempt''.
Dress has its own imperceptible impact on our mental and emotional propensities. Our clothes influence and condition our thoughts and feelings. If you put on simple and plain dress your thoughts and feelings also will grow plain and pure. If you put on colourful and gaudy dress, it will have an undesirable effect on your mind. In the great work, "Dharma Bindu", this point relating to dress and decorations, in accordance with place and environment and propriety, is mentioned. We will take up this matter later. I will not go into details now.
THE INDIAN CULTURE STANDS FOR TOLERANCE, WHY?
in India, there are various kinds of people with vari. ous kinds of faiths and beliefs. But there is a great ideal prevalent in our country. According to this ideal every individual is free to follow his own Dharma. Every individual is free to carry out the activites relating to his Dharma. This is a speciality in India culture. Our Aryan culture is tolerant Tolerance is the essence of the Aryan culture. It is to be noted that Indians never used coercion or never fought wars for the sake of religion. They never converted people of other faiths to their own faith by using temptations, and if at all they converted people to their faith, they did so by effecting a genuine transformation of the hearts and minds of those people. The doors of our culture are kept open to those who accept the ideals of our culture; who love this culture, but we never used the sword to compei people to accept
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