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THE WAY OF LIFE
In this monstrous situation, saving yourselves is not an easy task. Those noble householders who want to carry out spiritual endeavours; and who want to endeavour to attain spiritual progress, must keep off those sinful and criminal propensities and actions.
THE ROOTS OF RESTLESSNESS LIE IN YOUR INDIFERENCE TO THE ORDINARY PRINCIPLES
From the Audience: We, of course, like those sinful propensities; that is why we go to movies.
Maharajashri : Then, you will not be able to carry out any spiritual endeavours. If you do not observe the ordinary principles of the grihastadharma, how can you practise the special principles ? If you try to observe the special principles ignoring the ordinary principles, you will not achieve any spiritual progress. Spiritual progress will be beyond your reach; not only that; even your present life will not be peaceful. When those who practise the special principles, complain of restlessness, the cause for their restlessness is their neglect of the ordinary principles. You keep doing sinful actions; and you also perform spiritual austerities. It is something like a patient taking medicine; and ignoring the diet-restrictions prescribed by the doctor. If you do so, can you get rid of your disease ? In the same manner, if a person keeps committing sinful actions and also keeps carrying out some special spiritual austerities, can he attain liberation from Samsar ?
You are Jains; even in the lives of those who are not Jains, such sinful propensities and actions should not find a place. All those who want to lead a peaceful and felicitous life, must keep off those sinful propensities and activities.
The lives of noble householders should be free from such sinful propensities and actions as drinking, gambling, meateating and illicit and immoral sexual intimacies and goondaism. Noble householders should not associate with those who commit such ignoble actions.
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