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THE WAY OF LIFE
CARRY OUT CONTEMPLATION EVERY DAY
Carry out auspicious contemplations distinguishing the sublime from the sordid without getting entangled in the confounding tangles of worldly joys and sorrows. Respect what is auspicious and sublime; carry out what is auspicious and sublime and think about what is auspicious and sublime. Realise that ignoble things are to be renounced. Realise that ignoble things are to be disregarded and discarded. In case, at any time, you have to act ignobly, have inner awareness. Do not commit the blunder of thinking that sordid things are acceptable and beneficial.
-- Every day remember this great truth, “The state of human
existence is difficult to attain”.
“I must save myself from the ignoble actions and propensities of my mind, word and body”. Observe this principle with perfect awareness.
"I must make every moment of my life permeated with Dharma". Keep making this determination every day.
"Wealth is worthless; all relations in this world are transient. The body is full of diseases. Therefore, I should be detached from them”. Remember this point every day.
"I must attain such a lofty level of spiritual progress that death should be a felicity not a perplexity and that death should be a jubilation; should not be a horripilation”.
The great author concludes the first Adhyaya of the Dharmabindu with a very profoundly meaningful utterance. He makes a profoundly meaningful statement in the conclusion.
The author exhorts petople to achieve spiritual progress by observing the ordinary principles of a householder. He makes this sublime statement with his heart overflowing with the lofty emotion of compassion. He expresses this idea with the sublime feeling of selflessness. All of you must think about this truth
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