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* First, settle what you want to become and how
you should attain that end. That is enough. Then, keep glorifying such people. If you want to be a wicked man, keep praising wicked people; and if you want to be a noble man, keep praising noble people. Be polite in prosperity; unnecessary and irrelevant utterances will bring about meaningless verbal exchanges and quarrels; therefore, be careful while speaking. Have sense. Exercise control over your tongue. There can be no union between Dharmikatha (righteousness) and dishonesty, There can be union between honesty and righteousness. Kindness and compassion as well as legal and moral up
rightness unite with righteousness. * Double-faced behaviour is dangerous in life. Life
becomes bright only by means of concordance and
cordiality. exercererererererere
DISCOURSE 43
The great scriptural scholar, Acharyashri Haribhadrasoorishwarji describes the ordinary principles of the life of a grihastha in his work Dharmabindu. The fourth ordinary principle mentioned is the glorification of the character of noble people.
WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BECOME ?
In order to discard the ignobility born out of defects and faults, you should attain nobility, which accrues from virtues. Eulogy is a kind of bridge between ignobility and nobility. If noble people begin praising ignobility, they will surely become ignoble. If ignoble people keep praising nobility, they will surely become noble. People become changed into such men as
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