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endeavours to achieve spiritual progress. If you cannot accept Charitra Dharma and if you have to live as a grihastha, then you must live in such a way that your way of life conduces at least to the performance of some spiritual austerities. This will be possible only when man's mental propensities are calm and pacified. The mental propensities become provoked by such passions as sensual desires and anger. Therefore, you must keep off violent sensual desires and other violent passions like anger. You should not allow any occasions to arise that will provoke your passions and disturb your minds. Those people who marry taking care to see that all these parities exist between them, can for the most part, avoid the violence of passions and can maintain emotional equanimity in the midst of uneven and rough situations.
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I have to discuss the thirty-five ordinary principles of the Grihasthadharma and this is the second principle of Grihasthadharma, namely the propriety of marriage. If you ignore the ordinary principles of the Grihasthadharma and if you perform the special austerities then your spiritual austerities will not bring the desired fruit.
This is enough for to-day.
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