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The methods by which you can free yourselves from your mental tensions are: meeting and remaining in the company of noble people; studying Dharmagranthas or listening to discourses on them; carrying out yogabhyasa (yogic exercises for spiritual elevation); and living in the midst of
nature.
*You must develop such a strong mind that evil things do not affect your intellectual equanimity. You must make your minds evil-proof.
* Can a man attain salvation if on one hand he keeps committing sins; and if on the other hand, he carries out spiritual austerities also? No! He cannot attain salvation. Is that not so? Those who want to live peacefully and happily must discard those condemnable sins.
You must at least feel this sting of the conscience : "I must not continue to do these sinful actions which I have been doing. By committing these sins, I am binding my soul with sinful Karmas. My soul is becoming stained; and my mind is growing weak".
* You must prepare your mind for observing the ordinary principles of the grihastadharma. Some change or reformation should be brought about in the way of your life which is degenerate and stereotyped.
DISCOURSE 59
The supreme ocean of compassion; the great scriptural scholar, Acharya Shri Haribhadrasoorishwarji has described the ordinary principles of the grihastadharma in his work, Dharmabindu. The thirteenth principle is; you should not have even the slightest propensity to do evil actions. You should not do those actions which affect your worldly and your other
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