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Mahabharata

wisdom from the Santi Parva, explained

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Mahabharata — Vidura Niti

• Master Yourself First · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 34.10
• Body, Driver, Horses · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 34.12
• Friend or Enemy Within · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 34.18
• Want and Anger Tear Judgment · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 34.20
• Company Shares the Fire · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 34.24
• Wounds That Stay Open · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 34.33
• Wrong Dressed as Right · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 34.38
• Clear Sight, Not Clubs · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 35.16
• Proof Under Pressure · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 35.22
• Hard Times Show Who Stays · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 35.23
• Eight Ways Things Wear Away · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 35.24
• How Lasting Success Grows · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 35.25
• Truth Inside Duty · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 35.33
• Habit Shapes the Mind · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 35.35
• Plan Ahead for Rest · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 35.41
• Wrongful Gain, Widening Hole · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 35.43
• Not Returning Abuse · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 36.3
• Company Colours the Mind · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 36.8
• Ranking What We Say · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 36.10
• The Best Kind of Person · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 36.13
• Poverty of Conduct · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 36.25
• The Friend You Rest Upon · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 36.32
• Proof Comes With Need · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 36.39
• What Sorrow Costs the Body · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 36.40
• Each Effort, Its Fruit · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 36.48
• Alone, Even the Best Falls · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 36.60
• Swallowing Anger Whole · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 36.65
• Hard Words, Rare Ears · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 37.6
• Weighing What to Give Up · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 37.8
• Good for All, Good for Me · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 37.30
• The Even-Minded Wanderer · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 38.4
• Trust Has Limits · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 38.8
• Guarding Your Own Counsel · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 38.17
• Seven Fuels of Fortune · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 38.40
• Sleepless Beside Guilt · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 38.42
• Effort Wasted by Mismatch · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 39.31
• Four Remedies, Each Matched · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 39.33
• What Lengthens a Life · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 39.43
• The Habit That Takes You · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 39.46
• Where Prosperity Begins · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 39.48
• Where Real Strength Lies · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 39.65
• Answering Harm With Good · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 39.68
• Feeding What Never Fills · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 39.74
• Enough Is Not Owned · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 39.77
• Letting Go of Wrong Gains · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 40.1
• Virtue Under Pressure · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 40.9
• What Lasts, What Passes · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 40.10
• Two Companions at Death · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 40.16
• Senses, Desire, Anger · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 40.22
• A Chain of Checks · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 40.25

Mahabharata — Sanatsujatiya

• Death as Forgetting · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 42.2
• Drunk on Wanting · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 42.17
• Practice Kept Quiet · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 42.38
• Borrowed Honour · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 42.45
• Honour Comes From Nature · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 42.47
• Learning That Cannot Save · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 43.3
• Twelve Faults, One Household · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 43.8
• Twelve Marks of a Brahmana · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 43.11
• Not Grieving Failed Work · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 43.21
• Truth as Foundation · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 43.25
• Books Without Knowing · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 43.36
• Pointing Toward the Self · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 43.47
• Who Can Settle Doubts · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 43.48
• Gathering the Scattered Self · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 43.52
• A Second Birth · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 44.2
• Humble Work, Quiet Temper · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 44.5
• Work Earns Only Perishable Worlds · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 44.11
• Too Fine to See · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 44.16
• Seven Marks of Bad Conduct · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 45.1
• Speaking Ill of Others · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 45.6
• First Signs of Friendship · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 45.9
• A Cleansed, Quiet Heart · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 46.23
• Vices Hidden Like Snakes · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 46.25
• Seeing Self Everywhere · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 46.32
• One Thirst, Two Waters · Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva 46.33

Mokshadharma — Grief and Its Cure

• Freedom From Wanting · Mahabharata, Santi Parva 174.6
• Nobody Matches the Poor Man · Mahabharata, Santi Parva 174.7
• Nothing Left to Steal · Mahabharata, Santi Parva 174.9
• The Face Wealth Wears · Mahabharata, Santi Parva 174.12
• Turning Away From Wanting · Mahabharata, Santi Parva 175.22
• Loss That Set Me Free · Mahabharata, Santi Parva 175.33
• Where Does Life Go · Mahabharata, Santi Parva 184.12
• Level Eyes, Quiet Heart · Mahabharata, Santi Parva 192.43
• The One Cause · Mahabharata, Santi Parva 200.5
• Water Everywhere, Still Parched · Mahabharata, Santi Parva 202.6

Mokshadharma — Renunciation

• Born Again Through Practice · Mahabharata, Santi Parva 236.15
• Nothing To Hold Onto · Mahabharata, Santi Parva 237.15
• One Self, Two Descriptions · Mahabharata, Santi Parva 237.31
• The Unwatched Gap · Mahabharata, Santi Parva 238.16
• Food Left After Giving · Mahabharata, Santi Parva 241.18

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