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THE WAY OF LIFE
From the Audience: All jivas bring with them their Karmas when they are born in this world. If we leave them to suffer the fruits of their Karmas....?
Maharajashri: If you are left by others to suffer the fruits of your Karma what would you think? When you are suffering from some serious disease, when you are caught in calamities; when you are helpless and when you have fallen on evil days, if your friends do not help you, thinking thus, "His sinful karmas have brought about these consequences. Let him suffer the bitter fruits of his sinful Karmas !" What would you feel? Would you not feel unhappy? It is cruel and unkind to allow people to suffer when they are afflicted with some disease or when they are caught in some calamities. Only those people who do not want to carry out their duties, who regard themselves as enlightened people, indulge in such illogical arguments. How can those people who are ensnared in their selfish desires and cbjectives extend a helping hand to others? You have some definite duties to be carried out to help those whom you consider as your relatives and friends. Your first duty is to render proper help to them.
YOU MUST PAY AT LEAST THIS ATTENTION TO YOUR FAMILY
You must never neglect your family. The following are the factors to which you must pay proper attention.
(1) You must see whether the members of your family are getting adequate food or not; whether they eat food' at proper times or not; whether they have the sense to distinguish between what kind of food is to be eaten and what is not to be eaten. You should also see that they do not eat any food that is contrary to nature.
(2) You must see whether the members of your family are getting adequate clothes or not; whether all are getting dress and decorations that are suitable to their status.. You must see that money is not wasted on dress unnecessarily.
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