Book Title: Panchbhashi Pushpmala English
Author(s): Pratap J Tolia
Publisher: Vardhaman Bharati International Foundation

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________________ .12 *16* Make this day worthwhile, fruitful, and exalting without forgetting purity of the mind, howsoever dependent you may be. *17* Remember death if you are being led to committing any misdeed today. *18* If you are inclined to cause harm (grief) to anyone, recapitulate the happy and unhappy events of your life. *19* Whether you are a king or a pauper, turn towards righteousness by contemplating upon this thought that the remains (relics) of this body are going to require not more than five to six feet of land and that too for a brief period of time!. *20* It doesn't matter if you are a king. Do not lose yourself to unawareness and idleness, since you are eating the bread (by extracting Taxes) from people of lowest among lowest, of meanest among meanest, of adultery, of abortion, of heirless person, of outcastes, of butchers and of prostitute. What then.... ? *21* By inquiring (investigating) into the miseries, injustices and taxations of

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