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* You must request your parents to retire from active
life and to take rest. If your parents have the desire of retiring from worldly activities and of endeavouring to attain spiritual elevation, they will accept your suggestion; and you would have
done your duty. * Old age also causes helplessness. It is not at all
proper to treat your parents with contempt when they are helpless on account of old age or sickness. Is it proper to treat them with contempt ? Supposing owing to your misfortune, your own health is upset; what will you do? You must bear with patience the angry and irritable nature of your parents or your Gurumaharaj. This is the most
important austerity. * Who has attained happiness by forgetting his
duties towards those who are worthy of worship ? Who has attained peace by doing so ? If you do
your duty, your sorrows will surely disappear. * If you follow Dharma, on the basis of your virtues,
there will not be any room for hatred, enmity or
conflicts. * Help and benevolence can be there even if there
is no friendship or affection. Bhagwan Munisuvratji Swami carried out Vihar even during
nights in order to create awakening in a horse. Namrowerowever
Pawaran
DISCOURSE 65
The great scriptural scholar, the supreme benefactor, Acharya Shri Haribhadrasooriji has described the ordinary principles of the grihastadharma in the beginning of his work, Dharmabindu. Only if a grihasta observes these principles, can he acquire the fitness to carry out the special austerities.
The sixteenth ordinary principle is worship of the father and mother. If the parents observe the fifteen principles mentioned earlier, the children will observe this principle. Worship
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