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Noa
The tenth ordinary principle relates to dress and ornaments. To-day, you choose dress and decorations, imitating one another in order to make yourselves more and more attractive in appearance.
* Your dress and decorations must accord with your status and dignity; your age; your condition or stage; and your state and nation. You must not wear the dress and decorations that look ridiculous in the eyes of others, "For the apparel oft proclaims the man".
*I am unable to understand why some young men and young ladies come to religious centres dressed like movie actors and actresses. Can't they come to religious centres as members of cultured and noble families?
*Those who do not wear the dress and decorations that are appropriate to their society and nation are sure to come to grief sooner or later.
*I will narrate to you a real incident that took place in Uttarpradesh.
mee
DISCOURSE 56
The ocean of supreme compassion, the profound scriptural scholar, Acharya Shri Haribhadrasoorishwarji expounds the gradual steps to salvation, in his magnificent work, Dharma bindu. The guidance found in this grantha is of the highest utility to those who are desirous of knowing the gradual steps to the attainment of Moksha; and to those who desire to attain to a state of proximity to the felicity of spiritual elevation.
What a divine insight has the great author displayed in respect of every duty and function of a householder! The duty should not remain a duty; but it must become a dharma (a lofty
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