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* If you listen to discourses with mental awareness
and alertness, your mind, step by step, becomes attracted towards Dharma. The foundations of
Dharma will automatically arise in your life. * You have to take some precautions in listening to
discourses. If you listen to discourses in a thoughtless and imitative manner, thinking thus,
stage fat qrufato "If we merely listen to discourses, our sins get destroyed", there will not be any transformation in you. Even if you hear not one or two but hundreds of discourses with that attitude, no transformation
can take place in you. * If you cannot practise some doctrines of Dharma,
if some people are practising them, you must ap
preciate them and praise them. * One important action relating to samyagdharsan
or the right vision is '3901 3UT' or appreciation of noble actions. We have forgotten this great principle. Hearty praise is disappearing in this age
of jealousy and rivalry. * After listening to a discourse, you have to carry out
a prolonged activity and that is, to contemplate deeply on what you have heard. If you proceed on this path of contemplation, you will attain the nectar (amrit) that lies concealed in tatvas
(doctrines). eroeroeroeroesoeveroeror
DISCOURSE 86 The supreme ocean of compassion, the great scriptural scholar, Acharyashri Haribhadrasooriji expounds the ordinary principles of grihasthadharma in the beginning of his great work, Dharmabindu. If you begin practising these principles in your lives, a healthy society will come into existence. A cultured society will come into existence. Only such a society is capable of adoring and pursuing the path of Moksha.
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