Way of Life Part 2

Author(s): Bhadraguptasuri
Publisher: Vishvakalyan Prakashan Trust Mehsana

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* The money that is earned by immoral and illegal
methods will not allow you to live peacefully and
happily. It will not allow you to sleep peacefully. * Agitation pursues you even if you are rolling in
riches. Day and night, you will be consumed by the flames of agitation. Woman has a special kind of power; that is why she is called Shakthi or the embodiment of power. If she minds, she can make man a Paramatma. She has also the power of making him worse than Satan and of throwing him into the abysmal
depths of spiritual ruin. * Now-a-days, the economic condition of the country
is so complicated and problematic, that people are experiencing deep distress. Every day, the government keeps levying new taxes on people; and keeps draining their resources; and this has become the main activity of the government. Therefore,
people do not consider tax-evasion, a sin. Beroende BeNRemember
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DISCOURSE 29
The great scriptural scholar Acharyashri Haribhadrasoorishwarji describes in his work Dharmabindu, the ordinary Dharma or duty of a householder. The author dwells, in great detail, on the point that all the activities of the life of a householder must be absolutely legal and lawful. Wealth is the foundation for the life of a householder. Every Grihasta or householder has to earn money to support himself and his family. This is one essential objective of a householder. But if anyone tries to achieve this objective by illegal, immoral, dishonest and deceptive methods or by means of trickery, forgery etc. and if this objective takes an ignoble direction; if the objective is pursued with the sole intention of acquiring wealth irrespective of ethical considerations, it will bring only sin. The effort will bring only agony and anguish.