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"What are you doing here now ?" said his friend. "I am carrying out an experiment”, Edison replied.
"Your people have been searching for you from the morning and you are here carrying out experiments”.
“Why? What is the matter ?” "I say! Your marriage has to take place to-day !"
"Oh ! Yes. Yes. I forgot all about it. Yes. Now, I remember that my marriage has to take place to-day".
How deeply was Edison absorbed in his experiments ! What extraordinary delight he must have experienced in carrying out his experiments ! Imagine it. Absorbed in his experiments, he forgot that his marriage was to take place. Probably, you cannot believe this. You may think that Edison was a fool. You may think that he was crazy. We may think whatever we like about them but they remain what they are. Those who take delight in sensual pleasures, always think that lovers of knowledge are fools. But it is only these mad men; it is only these men who are mad after knowledge that brightened every corner of the world with the torch of knowledge and provided to the people of the world, countless amenities, comforts and means of entertainment and enlightenment.
Those who loved sensual enjoyments brought about wars in this world and those who loved knowledge brought peace to this world. Those who love sensual pleasures bring about sorrows in families but those who love knowledge bring about joy and dispel sorrow. Those who loved sensual pleasures increased the evils in life and those who love knowledge have been trying to dispel those evils. Those who love sensual pleasures, scoff at the lovers of knowledge and place impediments on their path but the great men who love knowledge shower over them the rain of forgiveness.
If you want to observe the ordinary principles of the grihasthadharma, you must become lovers of knowledge. You may have to experience sensual delights. You may have to
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