Awakening

SR No.: 008704
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Padmasagarsuri
Publisher: Arunoday Foundation
Publication Year: 1982
Total Pages: 211
Language: English
Classification: Book_English & Sermon
File Size: 8 MB

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anger harins others also. An angry man burns himself and burns others too; ruins himself and ruins others too. Anger clestroys the intellectual potentialities that are essential for the acquisition of knowledge.
The third great obstacle that impedes education is intoxication (Pramad). Intoxication or carelessness maims man's moral, intellectual and spiritual potentialities and his finer propensities; keeps him away from industry and cliligence and makes him a dead creature devoid of inspiration, enthusiasm and intellectual inquisitiveness. A inan steeped in intellectual and spiritual intoxication imagines that lassitude is restfulness and seeks delight in it. He thinks that when a snake does no work and a bird is idle, he need not work and that God who takes care of all would take care of him also. He thinks that when all things have rest, he need not work. He longs for rest and lingers over idleness as if it is a kind of sweetness.
The man who is steeped in intellectual intoxication and consequent stupefaction loses all originality and becomes intellectually insipid. He depends on others for everything and his indivicluality is completely ruined. The doors of progress are shut to such people. Intellectual and spiritual intoxication blinds people to their own blunders and such people camot acquire any cducation. How can they remember what