Thursday, June 25, 2020

conquest

Conquest
 akrodhena jayet krodham asādhuṁ sādhunā jayet | jayet kadaryaṁ dānena jayet satyena cānṛtam || 138 || 
Anger must be conquered by forgiveness; and the unscrupulous must be conquered by honesty; the miser must be conquered by liberality, and falsehood must be conquered by truth.
 na svapnena jayen nidrāṁ na kāmena striyaṁ jayet | nendhanena jayed agniṁ na pānena surāṁ jayet || 139 || 
One cannot conquer sleep by lying down; women by fulfilment of desires; fire by piling on fuel and wine by drinking. 
avisaṁvādanaṁ dānaṁ samayasyāvyatikramaḥ | āvartayanti bhūtāni samyak praṇihitā ca vāk || 140 || 
Honesty, generosity, observance of the protocols of social intercourse, and well-controlled speech, bring everyone under subjugation. 
priyo bhavati dānena priya-vādena cāparaḥ | mantraṁ mūla-balenānyo yaḥ priyaḥ priya eva saḥ || 141 || 
One becomes agreeable by gifts, another by compliments and praises, a third by the force of incantations and drugs. One however, that is naturally agreeable, always remains so. 

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