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[ 13 ] Remember that the latent consequences of thy actions do not temper justice with mercy!
[ 14 ] As the dark planet Rāhū ( dragon's head ) has got the power of eclipsing the bright moon, just so hypocrisy can deprive piety of all its brilliancy and power.
[ 15 ] Around “Desire', all the vices seem to flock together. If desire is absent, man is virtuous.
[ 16 ] An iron chain can be broken by physical strength, but the chain ‘Infatuation cannot be shattered, except with the help of the tool ‘Aversion from the world'.
[ 17 ] The circuit of all the mundane existences we have to undergo, is nothing but the result of the efficacy of our former actions. Where the latter are absent, the other is non-existent too.
[ 18 ] Happiness followed by pain is pain, and not happiness, and pain followed by happiness is happiness, and not pain.
[ 19 ] When Right Philosophical Knowledge reveals the vulnerable points of Delusion, the true hero, who endeavours for his welfare, begins to display his strength.
[ 20 ] Not he is a real Pandita, who after studying his books engages in sophistry, nor he who instructs others without acting accordingly himself : but a true Pandita possesses knowledge, and also acts according to it.
[ 21 ]
Spiritual happiness is a wish-tree as it were, whose blossoms are those supernatural powers called 'Labdhi', which form, as it were, the wealth of the Inner Self.
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