Excessive attachment to sense pleasures leads to bondage, and detachment from sense pleasures leads to liberation therefore it is the mind alone that is responsible for bondage or liberation.
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Separation from the wife, disgrace from one's own people, an enemy saved in battle, service to a wicked king, poverty, and a mismanaged assembly these six kinds of evils, if afflicting a person, burn him even without fire.Chanakya
He who desires sense gratification must give up all thoughts of acquiring knowledge and he who seeks knowledge must not hope for sense gratification.
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Do not put your trust in rivers, men who carry weapons, beasts with claws or horns, women, and members of a royal family.
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It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life.
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The poor wish for wealth animals for the faculty of speech men wish for heaven and godly persons for liberation.
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Those men who are happy in this world, who are generous towards their relatives, kind to strangers, indifferent to the wicked, loving to the good, shrewd in their dealings with the base, frank with the learned, courageous with enemies, humble with elders and stern with the wife.
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