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THE WAY OF LIFE
think that your life is like a filthy gutter it has to be purified and chastened. There is no need to keep leading such a life, giving way to despair. You must begin the task of purification with enthusiasm and zeal. You have to carry out the task of purification using all your energy, and abilities because the present day life is completely dominated by lucre and lust. The great grantha, "Dharmabindu" can give you an excellent guidance in this respect. In this grantha an excellent guidance is given to men with respect to every activity of life; but please do not forget the vital point that your own strong determination is absolutely essential for any transformation in your life. Without such a determination in you, others can do nothing. If a student is really interested in his studies the teacher can teach him well. He can help the student to acquire knowledge and education.
From the Audience: Is it not a fact that a teacher motivates students to study?
Maharajashri : I am also doing the same thing. I have been delivering these discourses only with the purpose of inspiring in you a taste for a life of Dharma. By means of my discourses I have been trying to create in you the right mood. If the mood is created the objective is as good as attained. But your mood will be off very soon. Do you want to get that mood? Do you want such a family, such friends as will not switch off your mood of Dharma ?
HOW CAN THERE BE ATTAINMENT WITHOUT A CONFLICT ?
HOW CAN THERE BE PERFECTION WITHOUT SERENITY?
Please understand this point. As you endeavour to transform your life and make a beginning, thousands of impediments arise. If you change even a little in your way of life there will be a corresponding change in the attitude of the world towards you. Supposing you are a government officer and that you have been accepting bribes; and today if you go to your office and refuse to take bribes your neighbours and those who are around you would say that you are a corrupt officer and look at you
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