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God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.

Chanakya

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.
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Attachment Deep Experience Family Fear Grief Happiness Oneself Sorrow Wisdom
Brass is polished by ashes; copper is cleaned by tamarind; a woman, by her menses; and a river by its flow.
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Cleaning Flow Metal River Woman
The foolish wish to speak out what was spoken in secret by the master.
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Fools Master Secret Stupidity Talk
A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.
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Alone Born Death Experience Goodness Hell Heaven Karma Man Result
He who gives up shyness in monetary dealings, in acquiring knowledge, in eating and in business, becomes happy.
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Business Deal Eat Give Up Happiness Knowledge Money Shy
Evil person causes harm even if treated well.
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Evil Harm Person Treat
He who runs away from a fearful calamity, a foreign invasion, a terrible famine, and the companionship of wicked men is safe.
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Adversity Attack Company Fear Foreign Friendship Man Run Safety War
The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.
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Earth Nature Power Shine Sun Support Truth Wind
The beauty of a cuckoo is in its notes, that of a woman in her unalloyed devotion to her husband, that of an ugly person in his scholarship, and that of an ascetic in his forgiveness.
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Beautiful Devotion Education Forgiveness Husband Person Song Ugly Woman
That man who is without religion and mercy should be rejected. A guru without spiritual knowledge should be rejected. The wife with an offensive face should be given up, and so should relatives who are without affection.
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Affection Appearance Face Family Give Up Knowledge Man Mercy Rejection Relative Religion Spiritual Wife
A thing may be dreaded as long as it has not overtaken you.
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Control Deep Fear Yourself
The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.
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Destroy Secret Share Yourself
Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
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Difficult Fortune Friendship Judgement Relationship Servant Service Trouble Wife
Do not put your trust in a bad companion nor even trust an ordinary friend, for if he should get angry with you, he may bring all your secrets to light.
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Angry Bad Betrayal Company Friendship Himself Light Ordinary Secret Trust
One who is in search of knowledge should give up the search of pleasure and the one who is in search of pleasure should give up the search of knowledge.
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Give Up Knowledge Oneself Sacrifice Search
People’s Fury is above all the furies.
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