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amarraroar
pareraroarnavaara
* The thought of causing loss or harm to others is
a very despicable one. This kind of attitude arises only on account of the absence of the emotion of
amity. * If others attain the happiness that you wanted to
attain and if you do not attain that happiness, your mind becomes agitated and you try to show that those people are low and mean. We get happiness or sorrow on account of our sins or merits of our
previous life (poorvajanma). * It is a great sin to believe that innocent and sinless
people are guilty and ignoble and to make others think so. This sin pursues us through countless
lives. * Even if some people are committing sins what
right have we to punish them? Who are we to punish them? We should think of our own souls. Instead of judging others let us judge ourselves and
do what is right. * In some villages in Gujarat and elsewhere this
experiment has been carried out successfully. Even thieves became reformed on account of the exhortations of noble people. Whole villages became reformed. Therefore, we should have compassion
even for those who commit crimes and sins. XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOX
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DISCOURSE 88
The supreme ocean of compassion, the great scriptural scholar, Acharyashri Haribhadrasooriji has expounded the ordinary principles of the grihasthadharma in the first chapter of his great work Dharmabindu. The thirty first ordinary principle is : " AFTAaat:" "discarding Abhinivesha (ignoble determination) in all activities". The commentator has defined Abhinivesha in an excellent manner. "नीतिमार्गमनागतस्यापि परामिभवपरिणामेन कार्यस्यारम्भोऽभिनिवेश:"
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