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BODHAYANTI PARASPARAM – VOL 7
viii) Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without many comforts and hopes. We see in needle-works and embroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground. Judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precious odour when they are incensed or crushed. For prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue."
Lord Bacon
ix) Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional... Anonymous
x) Practice right conduct, learning and teaching; Be truthful always, learning and teaching; Master the passions, learning and teaching; Control the senses, learning and teaching; Strive for peace always, learning and teaching; Rouse Kundalini, learning and teaching;
Serve humanity, learning and teaching; Beget progeny, learning and teaching. Satyamvacha says: "Be truthful always." Taponitya says: "Master the passions."
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