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*By means of Dharma, wealth can be attained. By means of Dharma worldly enjoyments can be obtained. By means of Dharma, Swarga (heaven) can be attained. By means of Dharma, even deliverance can be attained. The efficacy of Dharma is inconceivable. But even by a mistake, you should not seek from Dharma mundane enjoyments.
*"Whatever profit you get, you should spend a part of it for noble deeds". A man gave this advice to William Colgate and he attached a great value to that precept. After practising that precept he became a magnanimous and affluent person.
*The cowherd boy did not become Shalibhadra by merely giving a gift of sweet milk-preparation (Khir). He became Shalibhadra by giving a gift, with love, to a deserving seeker of help. Only his love of Sadhus made him Shalibhadra.
* Do not make Dharma a means for securing Artha (wealth) and for the fulfilment of Kama (mundane desires). Make spiritual welfare the aim of your life; and for attaining that, keep making spiritual endeavours.
DISCOURSE 2
THE EFFICACY OF SPIRITUAL POWER
Acharya Shri Haribhadra Soori, the very embodiment of benevolence, commences his work Dharmabindu, with an invocation to the Paramatma. The salutation offered to the Paramatma is Bhavamangal an invocation with the emotion of devotion. The Bhavamangal or an invocation has a boundless spiritual energy, such a spiritual potentiality that all impediments and all sorrows get destroyed and rooted out. How do all these things happen? Please do not ask that question.
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We do not even have an idea of what spiritual power is. It is likely that you have not even thought about the potentialities
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