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WHEN DHARMATATVA IS ALIVE ...... THEN
I like to exhort you to understand dharmatatvas rightly and thoroughly. I will leave it to your discretion to decide whether you should perform spiritual austerities or not. You realise this truth that if you love a dharmatatva, you will acquire a thorough knowledge of it either through listening to others or through study; and it will become a living force in your life. Dharma will one day radiate from you. The beauty of dharma will decorate your life. The radiance of dharma will fall upon your mind, voice and body and will make them resplendent. Your thoughts and contemplations will be suffused with dharma. Dharma will manifest through your voice and the effect of dharma will fall upon every action of yours. You will attain extraordinary felicity and serenity. In case, the merits of your previous janmas are not adequate you may get less of physical enjoyments but if you give a place to dharmatatvas in your life, you will attain an extraordinary inward serenity and spiritual felicity. Felicity is not so important as serenity. Felicity is not so essential as spiritual bliss. Believe that you have acquired the felicity of the whole universe if you have peace and happiness. Do you believe this? You run madly after physical enjoyments. When that is so can you realise the value of spiritual bliss ?
WHY IS LOVE ABSENT ?
Well, today I will tell you about the great men who possessed the sublime quality of love, the capacity to experience felicity at the sight of others' felicity. When you hear about them, your way of thinking itself changes. You will realise that in this immense universe, there are great men who embody countless virtues. You see only those who are around you and your world is very small. Even in that narrow world, you see with a narrow eye and with a narrow mind. Therefore, you are unable to experience pramod or love.
PRAMOD MEANS LOVE
Pramod Bhavana or love is the name given to that quality which impels you to experience joyful emotions and felicity
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