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Lets see…

(1) Continuous rainfall for just 4 days can cool down the
atmosphere heated up by the scorching summer heat since
the past 4 months.

(2) Huge pile of grass accumulated over a long period can
be burnt completely by a mere spark of fire.

(3) Just 3 hours of saint’s sermon can pacify the animosity
prevailing since a long time and give rise to seeds of
friendship and brotherhood.

(4) Greed which is practiced since times eternal can be
eradicated by the feelings of satisfaction and self-restraint
developed by listening to a saint’s discourse.

(5) It takes years to construct a building and not even few
minutes to destroy it.

The impact of positive feelings in the rapid progress of the
soul is quite evident from the lives of great people like Mata
Marudeva, Bharat, Bahubali, Sudarshan Sheth, Nagketu, etc.

Thus it is absolutely necessary to enrich this heart with positive
thoughts all the while; especially thoughts of brotherhood for

all, devotion for God and Guru and non-attachment towards
material pleasures because the reason behind the rise of
negative thoughts is generally the lack of the positive
feelings of brotherhood, devotion and non-attachment.
The lives of great men depict exemplary virtues of non-
attachment, brotherhood, compassion, etc. They must have
imbibed these virtues so deeply that it made their thoughts
and actions also noble !

Reading and listening to their motivating stories repeatedly

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