The Ten Characteristics of a Dharmika: Difference between revisions

{{Quote box|width=360px|bgcolor=|align=left|quoted=1|salign=right|quote=With which qualities should one be endowed? The greatest quality of a person within an assembly is the capacity to convince others. The highest quality in the battlefield is “yudhi vikramam”, or valour in the battle. While in danger, one’s great quality is patience. So what are the qualities of a dhármika (virtuous person)? First, he or she must have patience. Without patience one’s intellect can easily get misguided resulting in misunderstandings as to what should be done and what should not be done. Losing the faculty of judgment, one is easily defeated.|source=Shrii Shrii Anandamurti}}

Anandamurti starts the discourse by saying that every object has a particular nature, endowed with certain characteristics.  Anandamurti then explains the ten characteristics which a virtuous person (''Dharmika'') must posses: Patience, forgiveness, self control, non-stealing, cleanliness, control over the sensory and motor organs and nerves, developed wisdom (fixed memory of one's goal), self knowledge (''Vidya''), ''satyam'' (that which one thinks or says should be with the intention of the welfare of all), and being free from anger. Anandamurti goes on saying that those who are free from anger will be victorious in any battle and easily win an intellectual argument because the mind of an angry person becomes too restless to contain any rational thought.<ref name="AV4"/>

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