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me to college again. If I go to college, I will again fall into evil ways. My friends are not of desirable character. Their ways are questionable. I will certainly be ruined if I again get into their company. Many girls have gone astray because of such a company. On account of bad company many girls have lost their chastity. Those girls cannot get on without boy-friends. I do not want to get into that company again. I do not want to become a graduate. I will safeguard my chastity; though no one may marry me for not being a “graduate”.
Later, the girl left college. Her life became pure.
RESTLESSNESS CAUSED BY EVIL PROPENSITIES ANDACTIONS
From the Audience : Such condemnable propensities are seen in some girls and boys who go to colleges.
Maharajashri : Yet, you send your sons and daughters to colleges. You may say: "If we do not send our daughters to colleges, we will find it difficult to secure bride-grooms for them; and if we do not send our sons to colleges, they will not be able to secure jobs". This is the matter; is it not? But a time may come when girls who have studied in colleges may not be able to marry since no one may come forward to marry them. Because of some ignoble girls people may suspect all girls who have been educated in colleges. A time may come when degrees may be delinked from jobs. To-day, men have fallen into the evils of ignobility and immorality. On account of these evils, human beings are worried, agitated and are experiencing great anguish; and men are moving away – far away from Dharma, from spiritual heads and from the Paramatma.
AT LEAST YOUR HEART MUST THROB ONCE
Until you renounce your evil and immoral propensities, you will not be able to adore and pursue the path of salvation; and you will not have the right and fitness to pursue that path. Until you attain the right or fitness to adore dharma you will not attain spiritual purity whatever the number of spiritual
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