31.Ethical propriety makes the man great

Ethical propriety makes the man great
O brethren! You don’t take it ill seeing any event/ incident at any time because any incident can become instrument of your amelioration. Here is a story of an old man. He being pained by the taunts of his daughter-in-law, came out from the home and left for pilgrimage and reached 'Summed Shikhar ji' and accepting initiation of Muni made himself elevated/ ameliorated. It is not bad to live in the world, you catch hold of the world which is bad. That attachment should be done away with. If anyone tells you something because of affinity then very soon you take it ill. On the other hand, son, daughter-in-law are there in the house, however much they may pass acrimonious remarks, may taunt even then you’re used to hear them. You do not feel ill because they look to you as your own. In earlier days the threshold used to remain in the house, and then the decorum of the house was main¬tained, Today neither there is threshold in the house nor the decorum is left over. If the home is propped with propriety-decorum then that house is propped up on its own. It comes into view as heaven. Where the decorum/propriety is not maintained that house comes into view as the hell. The men without propriety spoils him- self. Just as the flow of the river when remain within bounds looks, how beautiful, that very flow when assumes the form of flood/ transgressing / breaking the bound¬ary, then nothing is left except total ruin/ destruction. Marayada Purshottam Ram never transgressed his decorum/ propriety, that is why he is called as worshippable. Try to touch/ follow his conduct, the world would admire you. Only that person can adore the gems-trio who himself observes due bounds of propriety and lives in the house observing bounds of propriety. Make your thought positive, not negative. Occa¬sionally any incident can become a cause to make your life rescued from baleful condition.

O brother! It is common to err, the one who accepts his mistake, repenting for that, makes his life sacred and pious, that very is human. When the sandal is rubbed on the stone then that stone also becomes(fragrant. If a man happens to come in the company of virtuous person then his life also becomes fragrant. “Neither got anything becoming someone nor got by losing something whatever got, got by becoming of someone “. There is neither anything to get in the world, nor anything to lose, either become of your own-self or of the God. That who has learnt to live with his virtues, that only is beautiful in himself.

“Don 't gaze your face in the mirror, The mirror will get unclean. Look intently your face in conscious soul, That soul will become clean. ”

Today the person does not begin his morning with the worship of God and service of old ones. Today how many sons and daughters- in-law are there who begin their routine activities with the blessing of their father-in-law and mother-in-law touching their feet? We search affinity not in our owns, but in others, we wish eagerly to embrace others. If we try to search that love, affection, blessing in our own home, then we will make our very home heaven.

Just as water cleanses the stains & blood, similarly even the hard inauspicious sins of domestic routine by a house-holder are washed away by offering four types of alms to the ascetics who have renounced die worldly affairs.