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== Synopsis == | == Synopsis == | ||
{{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}} | {{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 | Anandamurti starts the discourse by saying that unlike the Indian scriptures that encourage people to cherish the desire for salvation, He recommends that we ask nothing from God. if we are to ask for anything at all, we should ask for our intellect to be led along the path of virtue. Anandamurti then explains that all the violence and clash in this world are the result of a misguided intellect. Although excerting circumstential pressure against exploiters and immoralists in society is necessary, we must encourage people to move along the path of righteousness. Anandamurti goes on saying that Parama Purusha knows 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"/> | ||
== References == | == References == |