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Truly, this is the right way to live a peaceful life. As man goes on acquiring more and more means of physical and sensual pleasures, his mental peace keeps declining. He will not be able to entertain noble thoughts. He will be caught in countless entanglements. His life will be full of agitations, worries and anxieties. Nobody can save such men from their difficulties. If you realise this truth and stop wasteful expenditure then you can save yourselves from many calamities.
ONLY THEN WILL YOU EXPERIENCE IT
"The potentialities of the body, mind and materialistic wealth should not be wasted". Accept this great truth. Only then will you be able to admire noble people. You too will have this ideal in your life. "I should not waste anything." You will feel unhappy, if you or the members of your family expend potentialities or spend money wastefully. "I made a mistake. I spent money wastefully.” This experience, you will have then.
Give up the craze for modernism. Discard the habit of imitating what you see on the movie-screen. If women accept this principle and if this principle appeals to them, there will be a great reformation in families. Stop spending money wastefully. The quality of noble men of spending money carefully and thoughtfully will attract you.
I am carrying out a detailed discussion of the principle of adoring the virtues of noble people because you too must become noble. I am introducing you to the way of life adopted by the noble men so that you may like it and admire it.
We shall discuss later the second extraodinary virtue of noble people.
This is enough for to-day.
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