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* Calumniation veils hatred or hatred is concealed
behind calumniation. Calumniation originates from the wicked motive of assassinating the character of someone; or from the ignoble propensity of treating others with contempt or
from one's desire to conceal one's faults. * It is never proper to develop enmity with others.
Enmity causes agitation in your mind. You will become restless and worried on account of your feeling of hostility towards others; and that feel.
ing puts an end to your spiritual austerities. * If you calumniate a man in power it brings sorrow
in this life. The hostility against sadhus and saints brings sorrow in this world and also in the other world. That is why I cxhort you to discard the
evil habit of calumniating others. * Those who practise the special principles ignoring
the ordinary principles can never attain a knowledge of Dharmatatvas. Their spiritual austerities only serve to make them proud and haughty. Those who calumniate spiritual heads and listen to the calumnny of spiritual heads gather sinful
Karmas in their souls. * Calumny cannot exist without the propensity to
see faults in others. The tendency to see faults in others impedes your adoration of the path of salvation. It will impede even the pilgrimage of your worldly life. The tendency of secing faults in others prevents a man from looking into him.
self and from contemplating on the soul. NONOSMEROM ONMONOV
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DISCOURSE 60
The great scriptural scholar, the revered Acharyashri Haribhadrasooriji describes the ordinary principles of the Grihasthadharma in his work Dharmabindu. These ordinary principles are common principles. They are not really ordinary principles in their value. They are extraordinary principles possessing extraordinary value and significance. He who wants
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