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Sayings of Śri Vijayadharma Sūri
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[ 39 ] A person over whom Illusion has got power, be his outer position ever so high, can never reach the shore of this ocean of births and re-births.
[ 40 ] A nation, a family, or a community in which good-will is absent, can never be successful.
[ 41 ] Every work should be done in conformity with matter, place, time and disposition. He who ignores these four – be he a scholar, a physician, or a preacher --- gets needs into trouble.
[ 42 ] An army or a community, into which licentiousness has found its way, or which has got no leader, or many leaders, can never hope to be successful.
[ 43 ] A family, community, or nation in which intolerance has found a home-stead, gets rotten in all its parts.
[ 44 ] The habit of exposing others' faults not only adds to our own faults, but also helps to create bad prospects for our own after lives.
[ 45 ] He who cannot see others' merits without debasing them, will never gain renown.
[ 46 ] It is one of the chief commandments of Lord Vīra to save other lives even at the cost of our own.
[ 47 ] The suppression of such customs as are a stain on religion, is religious duty, and helps to establish religion itself so much the firmer.
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