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* Keep fighting against the inner enemies; you will
surely achieve a victory. After being victorious, you will attain perfection - you will become perfect.
* Give up the amusement of seeing movies. Count.
less mental aberrations result from seeing movies.
* Do not see anything; do not read anything and do
not hear anything which provokes the sexual passion. This is one easy way to attain a victory over the enemy called Kama or sexual passion.
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* You must pay attention to your dress and garments and see that they do not provoke passions or those of others.
* Your dress and decoration must be such that they
do not provoke passions in those who see you. They should not produce or provoke the sparks of passion and its aberration.
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DISCOURSE 48
The supreme ocean of compassion, the great scriptural scholar, Acharyashri Haribhadrasoori describes the ordinary principles of the grihasthadharma in his work Dharmabindu. Samanyadharma means the code of common principles for all. These common and ordinary principles are useful in impelling the innate humanity to manifest itself in those who are living the life of householders.
In order to impel their innate humanity to manifest itself, men should recognise their inner enemies; should control them and they should restrain and discipline their senses, but the actual situation is different. Men have surrendered themselves to their inner enemies. They have decided to live only with the help of those inner enemies. Is it not true? Lust, anger, avarice,
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