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you want to promote and preserve your merits, then keep your eye on your demerits. Know and scan your demerits if you want to increase and strengthen your merits. Now choose between the two courses.
AMAR VANI
Treat Your Guest as Your God
O man, if ever a needy person knocks at your door, welcome him heartily. According to Indian culture and philosophy, the guest is not merely a guest, he is a God. Serve your guest in the same spirit in which you serve your God.
Desire
O man, can ever your desires be satisfied? There is a limit to one's power of acquisition. The means and sources of wealth, property, pleasures and luxuries of life are limited. But the desires of your heart are unlimited and infinite. Can the infinite be ever filled by the finite ? Can a lump of clay ever fill the whole sky? Can fire be extinguished by adding fuel to it ? No, it is never possible. You have to control and curb your desires. The feeling of greed can never be satisfied with acquisition. It can be satisfied only by contentment and renuciation. If you want to extinguish fire, you need water, not fuel.
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