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Contents

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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