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condition, how can we find fault with others? If we think of it, we find that you have not acquired a proper familiarity or intimacy with noble spiritual heads. Eventhough you listen to their discourses, you do not abide by their words. The familiarity with a noble spiritual head will surely destroy your sins. It will surely eradicate your sinful activities but you must have intimacy with the Gurumaharaj in the real sense of the word.
The familiarity with a noble spiritual head does not consist merely in knowing his name and fame; nor does it consist merely in rendering service, devotion and worship to him. Familiarity with him does not also mean giving a charity of two rupees impelled by his discourses. Familiarity with him is of a deeper nature and it is related to your heart, thoughts and emotions. Familiarity with a noble spiritual head means knowing his sinless and pure life; knowing his intellectual vision; knowing his selflessness and compassion. Have you become familiar with a noble spiritual head in this manner? Such a familiarity transforms even a robber into a saint; just as even Shravaks may become robbers in the absence of such a familiarity with a noble spiritual head.
Discard those activities which are offences against the nation and the people of the country and our society. Make your life pure and sinless. Enjoy so much happiness as you can attain by means of honesty and nobility. Be satisfied with it. Discard your desire to attain happiness by questionable ways. If at least one family or one small society leads such an exemplary life, we can tell the nation or the world giving that example that it is possible to live such an excellent and exemplary life even in these days. Without contentment and satisfaction, you cannot lead a sinless and pure life. Those who are always discontented and dissatisfied, cannot be sinless and pure. Do you entertain a strong desire to lead a sinless life?
Discard your ignoble ways and actions; discard your antisocial propensities and actions. Always have matrimonial alliances with those people who are popular and who are esteemed by your society and your city. If you discard your censurable
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