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DISCOURSE 23
403 MAKE YOUR HEART A LAKE OF THE FOUR EMOTIONS
In order to make your spiritual activities and austerities meaningful and fruitful, your heart must be full of these four great emotions namely, amity, love, compassion and neutrality. The heart that is pervaded by those emotions can receive Dharma Shri Haribhadrasoori has given a magnificent exposition of the true nature of Dharma which comprehends these four great emotions. You will experience unexampled and unprecedented felicity and peace if you possess those four emotions. In that case, every spiritual austerity carried out by you will bring about a feeling of exultation. Others will look upon your austerities with esteem and veneration.
We are completing our discussion of neutrality today. Tomorrow, we will summarize our thoughts relating to these four great emotions. We shall summarize tomorrow all our thoughts relating to those four emotions and to the true nature of Dharma, because immediately after this, the great author has described the thirty five qualities of the Marganusari Life (the life that leads to the path of salvation,) and we shall have to consider those qualities next. The author of Dharmabindu was not only a mighty scholar but also a man of great spiritual enlightenment. He has composed this grantha in the form of Sutras (aphorisms). The Sutras have a profound meaning and are of great importance. Even a brief utterance is packed with meaning. Though the sutras are brief, they are terse and profound in respect of meaning. We shall consider those Sutras. Those thirty five qualities are of great use to all people whether they are Jains or not.
This is enough for to-day.
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