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customer, he will buy from you even when you charge him
sixteen and a half Rupees instead of the sixteen and if he is not,
then even if you charge him fifteen, he will not buy from you.
Have this much faith!
To worry about your own well-being is artadhyan. It is
also artadhyan to have worries about your daughter and how
you will cope with the expenses of her marriage when you have
no money. She is still young and to worry about the future is
artadhyan.
If someone you do not like comes to live with you for a
few days, you will think, ‘I wish he would leave. Why did he
have to come to my home?’ Such internal bhaav (dhyan) is
artadhyan and if you say, “He is a worthless person”, that is
raudradhyan. You are in artadhyan and raudradhyan.
If you have to make rice pudding from pure milk, you
should put sugar in it, not salt. Putting sugar in pure milk is
dharmadhyan. Dharmadhyan is to have the understanding that all
miseries that come your way are due to your own karma and
mistakes.
When one has learnt the four words of Lord Mahavir,
then he has accomplished the study of the 45 Agams.
The true dharmadhyan of the vitarag Lords, will destroy
all conflicts.
What is dharmadhyan? It is to have no negative bhaav
(feeling) towards anyone who causes you harm and to take the
support of Gnan that tells you, “I encountered this person as a
result of my karma.” Dharmadhyan is to bless the one who
insults you in front of a large crowd and to forget the incident.
The Lord has said it is dharmadhyan if you feel indifference
towards insults and not remember them. But alas there are
people who will not forget an insult till they die.
A person with dharmadhyan is considered to be shresthi