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* You should not forget this truth. We can make
our future. We are the architects of our destiny. Others cannot make or mar our future.
avanzadasoro
* Just as opium, charas, liquors etc. bring about
intoxication, attachments and hatred also bring about intoxication. How can there be any sense in a state of intoxication ? If you give importance to these thoughts and ideas, your thought-current will flow with clarity, purity and sanctity like the Ganga.
* Scholarship is different from wise and sensible
thoughts. Scholarship devoid of wisdom and thoughfulness cannot bring about inner serenity and felicity. Scholarship devoid of deep and genuine emotions may influence people but it cannot inspire feelings of love in them. On the other hand, the scholarship deeply interfused with exalted emotions fills
others with sublime love. BOXONEXOXOƏMergero
DISCOURSE 24
The supreme benefactor, the enlightened scriptural scholar, Acharyashri Haribhadrasoorishwarji describes the real form and nature of Dharma in his work, Dharmabindhu. In a brief sloka, he expresses many profound ideas. His method of composition is to write pregnant, pithy and epigrammatic aphorisms. Various Acharyas, sages and munis have given various definitions of Dharma. I feel that Shri Haribhadrasoori's definition of Dharma belongs to the rank of the best definitions. All of you understand this definition properly. Do not wander away from the thought. We must come to conclusions regarding Dharma after deep thinking because our endless future is bound with it. If you get into confusions regarding the concepts of Dharma; your future will become bleak and blighted and you will fall into the abysmal depths of spiritual ruin.
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