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          learning; what is real beauty; renounce the world for your spiritual

          benefit; fruits of endeavor; avoid extremes; there are no impediments
          for the strong; on good and bad sons; how to discipline a son; how to
          protect one’s life; a worthless life; the residence of Lakṣmī.

          Chapter Four ............................................. 87

          What is ordained by fate; follow the sādhu; saintly devotees look
          after their associates; advance spiritually while still healthy; learning
          is like the kāmadhenu; one moon is better than many stars; better a
          still-born son than a fool; six circumstances that burn one like fi re; a
          son who is neither a scholar nor a devotee; shelter from the miseries
          of material life; what happens only once; what to do alone and what
          in the company of others; a true wife; all is void to a poor man; four
          kinds of poison; what should be abandoned; four kinds of weariness;
          constantly think about your circumstances; different visions of God.


          Chapter Five ............................................ 112

          Four gurus; four ways of testing a person; how to get rid of fear; no
          two people are the same; one who is honest cannot deceive; envy;
          what becomes ruined; learning is retained through practice; what
          preserves what; blasphemers come to grief; what destroys what;
          no happiness is higher than spiritual knowledge; one is born alone
          and dies alone; Svarga is but a straw; dharma is the only friend; rain
          upon the sea; no wealth is dearer than stored food grains; the poor
          crave riches; all things rest upon truth; religious merit alone is steady;
          barber is cunning; fi ve fathers; fi ve mothers.

          Chapter Six ............................................... 43

          The importance of hearing; who is a cāṇḍāla; what cleanses what;
          traveling; the man of means is respected; everything is controlled by
          Providence; time is insurmountable; who is blind; the soul is alone
          in saṁsāra; who accepts the sins of others; four enemies at home;


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