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* The fifteenth ordinary principle is this: "You..
should not associate with ignoble and immoral people; and you should associate with those who are men of noble conduct and who observe noble principles. You can realize the importance of the 15th ordinary principle only if you try to realize the two ideals namely (1) reducing and discarding your defects and
(2) cultivating and increasing merits. * Spiritual purification is possible only when you
discard your defects; and increase your merits. * You should not associate with those who eat the
prohibited food such as meat. You must take a vow before your Gurumaharaj that you will not eat prohibited food. You should not hear any conversation or arguments relating to prohibited food. You should not go, even by a mistake, to a place where people are eating prohibited food. Now-a-days, people whose conduct is ignoble jeer at those who live according to some noble principles. They condemn noble principles and practices.
Ignoble principles are being praised and eulogized. * Now-a-days, it has become a fashion for people to
eulogize ignoble principles and practices. What
a time has come ! * The follower of Dharma gets agonies and anguish;
Satan or the calumniator of Dharma gets prospe
rity and benefits. What a pity! Xerererererererens
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DISCOURSE 61
The great scriptural scholar, Acharya Shri Haribhadrasoorishwarji describes the ordinary principles of the grihasthadharma in the beginning of his work, Dharmabindu. Those ordinary principles influence the individual, the society, the family and the nation. If you want to lead a happy, peaceful and felicitous life, you must practise those ordinary principles.
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