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BASIC ELEMENTS OF CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT
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Charity
The more you get, the more speedily you should give away in charity. This holy principle will enrich everybody from the individual to the society at large. It will change darkness into light.
In this context a celebrated poet says that when wealth begins to increase in the house or when water begins to seep into the boat, your wisdom lies in draining it out as early as possible. Your possessions, like water seeping into the boat, become a dead weight, which may suddenly sink the barque of your life in the ocean of the world,
Keep Your Critic by Your Side
If somebody criticises you, let him do so. Why do you pay any heed to him ? Why do you feel angry? Only look into your heart and see if there is really some weakness" within you that deserves to be decried. If it is there, give it up. But if there is none, be happy and fearless and go your way undaunted. The opinion of others can do you no harm.
Industry
Modern man wants rest. He does not want to work. The grim spectacle of poverty that you see around you in the society or the country is the result of this desire for rest. We taik of increasing our production, but how can production increase while people are dozing in their beds? Production depends upon the industry of man. So long as man lives, he must work hard, and die working. Industry is life, rest death. Not a moment of life should be wasted in lethargy.
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