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arsaraaraavaavararaaraan
* Impure conduct impedes the effort to attain spiri
tual purification. If a man's activities and actions are impure and ignoble, then his spiritual activities
cannot be pure, firm and felicitous. * Even earning money becomes a dharma if it is
carried out with intellectual vision and insight. The greater the purity in one's activities, the greater the dharma. Dharma increases in a man's life in proportion to the extent to which he practises the Jin's commands.
no acaravaanar
waaraansara
* You must spend money according to your income.
If income is less, expenditure also should be decreased. Your expenditure should never exceed your income.
* Divide your income into four parts. Save one part.
Invest one part in your business. Spend one part for the management and maintenance of your
family. Reserve one part for spiritual activities... Verearoarerererererero
DISCOURSE 57
The Supreme ocean of benevolence, the great scriptural scholar, Acharyadev Shri Haribhadrasooriswarji has expounded the gradual steps to salvation in his great work, Dharmabindu. This grantha provides an excellent spiritual guidance to those who want to proceed on the way that gradually leads to spiritual development. This grantha is also immensely useful to those who want to make the activities of their life pure, proper and noble. But for those who do not want to attain spiritual progress; and for those who do not want to lead a pure and noble life, this grantha is of no use or significance. In fact, to such people no other grantha will be of any importance.
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