Way of Life Part 4

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

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You should not be ignoble in your dealings with the people with whom you have to live; and who happen to be your fellow-travellers in the pilgrimage of your life. You should not take delight in causing sorrow and misery to them.
*In case our ancestors have transmitted to us some ignoble traditions, we should have the courage to discard them because they are opposed to the welfare of people and society and to dharma.
*You should free yourselves from attachments and hatred. If you want to keep your mind free from the delights and displeasures that cause elation and depression, understand and practise the Karma philosophy. After knowing the way in which the karmas show their effects in our lives, we can free ourselves to the fullest extent from our personal attachments and hatred.
* You cannot encounter everything in practical life. You have to make a compromise sometimes. Instead of trying to make others understand a truth you understand it first.
* Do not criticise others. Others also will stop criticising you; if not to-day, they will do so to
morrow.
DISCOURSE 75
The supreme ocean of compassion, the great scriptural scholar, Acharya Shri Haribhadra Sooriji while expounding the ordinary principles of the grihasthadharma in his great work Dharmabindu describes the twenty second ordinary principle; "The proper way to carry on the pilgrimage of life".
The great Acharya exhorts us not to slight or ignore the thoughts and opinions of others. He forbids the tendency to act against the wishes of the people around you. If you deviate