Way of Life Part 4

Author(s): Bhadraguptasuri
Publisher: Vishvakalyan Prakashan Trust Mehsana

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Of all the pilgrimages, the pilgrimage of life is the greatest and the most essential. The pilgrimage of life means living properly and carrying out your dealings in life in a proper manner.
*A man who is devoid of intelligence cannot understand the importance of the pilgrimage of life; and he will not get any fruits for his endeavours in his life.
When those people who carry out spiritual austerities with absorption commit ignoble actions, or antisocial actions and if they cannot discard such actions, people and society will condemn and censure dharma.
Acquire a thorough knowledge of the nature and mental propensities of the leaders of dharma, the heads of families and the leaders of society and the city, in which you are living.
It is not proper to act ignobly towards the sangha the fourfold Jain society; and to treat with contempt the codes of society. Of course, even the sangha has to act only in accordance with the commands of the Jin.
A tremendous spiritual power lies concealed in a devout recitation of the name of the Paramatma. On account of its efficacy a mighty miracle may occur, any moment. But of course, this requires that we should dedicate ourselves completely at the feet of the Paramatma.
DISCOURSE 74
The supreme ocean of compassion, the great scriptural scholar, Haribhadrasooriji while expounding the ordinary principles of the Grihasthadharma in his great work Dharmabindu describes the twenty second ordinary principle thus; " यथोचित लोकयात्रा हीनेषु हीनक्रम: " (There should be propriety in our way of life.) Here the great author employs the expression which means the pilgrimage of life.