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PRACTICE OF KARMA YOGA
fashionable dress to attract his wife The sister of illfame wants to get more custoiners by putting on fashionable dress. This is all delusion. Can a fashionable dress give real beauty? This is all artificial decoration It is temporary, false, decaying, glittering beauty! If you possess divine virtues such as mercy, sympathy, love, devotion and forbearance, you will be respected and really honoured. This will give everlasting beauty even though one is clad in rags
Fashion is a terrible curse. It is a dreadful enerny of peace. It infuses evil thoughts, lust, greed and devilish tendencies. It fills the mind with worldly taints. It begets poverty. Fashion has made you a beggar of beggars. Annihilate this desire for fashion to the very root Wear simple clothing Have sublime thinking. Do not keep company with fashionable people. Remember those saints who lead a simple life and those living today who are very simple. Simplicity will cause piety. It will infuse divine thoughts. You will be free from worry and unnecessary thoughts. You can devote more time to divine contemplation and spiritual pursuits.
A Sattwic man or woman is really beautiful He or she does not require any artificial decoration with gold pins, with nose-screws or with any ornament or fashionable dress. Millions of people are attracted unconsciously towards them, even when they are in very poor dress.
How simple was Mahatma Gandhi in his dress!
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