Sacred Thoughts - Mahabharata

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Sacred Thoughts - Mahabharta

Make the impossible possible, make room for us where there is no room,

bringing back life to us for we are as good as dead.

Vidura (to Sanjaya), Vyasa, Mahabharata, 134. 21.

Prosperity intoxicates even the wise and valiant. Those who live in luxury soon

lose their reason.

Vyasa, Mahabharata, Vana Parva, CLXXX.

 

After joy, sorrow;

after sorrow, joy;

After day, night;

after night, the day;

Ceaselessly rotate they on the Wheel of Life;

O'er and between the two broods peace always.

 

The intoxication with power is worse than drunkeness with liquor and such,

for who is drunk with power does not come to his senses before he falls.

Vidura

 

A man should avoid these six like a leaking boat in the ocean: a teacher who

does not teach, a priest who has not studied, a king who fails to protect, a

wife who is abusive, a cowherd who wants a village, and a barber who wants

a forest.

Vidura

 

Revenge is not always better, but neither is forgiveness; learn to know them

both, so that there is no problem

Mind is very restless, forceful and strong, O Krishna, it is more difficult to

control the mind than to control the wind

Arjuna to Krishan

 

Your behaviour should never be such that you don't expect others to behave

like you do.

Krishna to Arjuna

 

The cravings for food, sleep, intercourse are the same in both man and

animal. Both man and animal are affected by fear. The only thing, which

differentiates man form animal, is the quantity of religion. Man is more

religious. If a man lacks religiousness then he is more like an animal.

 

The sweet-speeched wives are their husband's friends on the occassion of

joy; they are as fathers on the occasions of religious acts; they are the

mothers in the hours of illness and woe.