Way of Life Part 1

SR No.: 006513
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Bhadraguptasuri
Publisher: Vishvakalyan Prakashan Trust Mehsana
Publication Year: 1986
Total Pages: 432
Language: English
Classification: Book_English & Religion
File Size: 22 MB

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* If you want to look into your inner self, you must
close your physical eyes. If the external eyes are closed, the internal intellectual eyes automatically open. See the inner world of your existence with your internal eyes.
The mind that is crazy after sensual cravings can never be serene or balanced. Such a mind be. comes senseless and forgets all decency, decorum, and dignity.
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* If a pregnant woman desires to know the future of
her child; if she desires to scrutinize it, she can know it. If she scrutinizes her own mental state, thoughts and feelings, she can know whether the child is going to be noble or ignoble because the mother's thoughts and feelings shape the future of the child by their impact.
All jivas are under the sway of Karmas. The Jiva experiences happiness or sorrow in accordance with its own Karmas. Why should we blame others saying, “You have caused sorrow to me"?
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DISCOURSE 13
Acharya Shri Haribhadrasoori, the boundless ocean of compassion has given a definition of dharma. The Acharya Shri Haribhadrasoori has given an excellent definition of dharma. He does not say, "Only that which has been expounded by Mahavir Swami is true dharma". He says that dharma is that action or austerity which is performed according to indisputable prescriptions; which is all that is, which is carried out in accordance with scriptural rules and prescriptions and which is carried out with the sublime emotions of amity, love, compassion and neutrality. This kind of austerity, whoever has expounded it or described it, is dharma. Let it be an austerity