Q:
What is more important than the earth itself? .
Yudhishthira:
One’s mother.
Q: What is higher than heaven?
Yudhishthira:
One’s father.
Q: What is swifter than the wind?
Yudhishthira:
The mind.
Q: More numerous than the blades of grass?
Yudhishthira:
The thoughts in the mind.
Q: What is the highest sanctuary of dharma?
Yudhishthira:
Liberality.
Q: What is the highest sanctuary of fame?
Yudhishthira:
A gift.
Q: What is the highest sanctuary of heaven?
Yudhishthira:
The truth.
Q: What is the most praiseworthy thing of all?
Yudhishthira: Skill.
Q: The most valuable possession?
Yudhishthira:
Knowledge.
Q: The greatest treasure?
Yudhishthira:
Health.
Q: The greatest happiness?
Yudhishthira:
Contentment.
Q: What is the highest dharma?
Yudhishthira:
To injure none of the living.
Q: What must be controlled?
Yudhishthira:
The mind.
Q: What must be renounced to make a man agreeable?
Yudhishthira:
Pride.
Q: What must be renounced to make a man wealthy?
Yudhishthira:
Desire.
Q: And what can be renounced without regret?
Yudhishthira:
Anger.
Q: And what will be relinquished to gain happiness?
Yudhishthira:
Greed.
Q: What makes the way?
Yudhishthira:
The good make the way, indeed they are the way.
Q: Who is the ascetic?
Yudhishthira:
He who remains faithful.
Q: What is true restraint?
Yudhishthira:
That of the mind.
Q: And what is true forgiveness?
Yudhishthira:
He who endures enmity truly forgives.
Q: What is real knowledge?
Yudhishthira:
The knowledge of god.
Q: What is tranquility?
Yudhishthira:
When the heart is still.
Q:
What is mercy?
Yudhishthira:
When one desires happiness of all creatures.
Q:
What is simplicity?
Yudhishthira:
When the heart is tranquil.
Q: What is the invincible enemy?
Yudhishthira:
Anger.
Q: What disease has no cure?
Yudhishthira:
Covetousness.
Q: What is the honest man?
Yudhishthira:
He who desires the happiness of all the living.
Q: And the dishonest one?
Yudhishthira:
The one who has no mercy.
Q: What is ignorance?
Yudhishthira:
Not knowing one’s Dharma.
Q: What is pride?
Yudhishthira:
When a man thinks that he’s the one who is the doer of life.
Q: What is grief?
Yudhishthira:
Only ignorance.
Q: How does a man become patient?
Yudhishthira:
By subduing his senses.
Q: Which is the true ablution?
Yudhishthira:
When the heart is washed clean.
Q: What is charity?
Yudhishthira:
Protecting all creatures.
Q: What is wickedness?
Yudhishthira:
Speaking ill of others.
Q: How is a man agreeable?
Yudhishthira: When he speaks agreeably.
Q: How does he get what he wants?
Yudhishthira: When he acts with discernment.
Q: And how do you find bliss in the next world?
Yudhishthira:
By being virtuous in this one.
Q: What is truly amazing in this world?
Yudhishthira:
The most amazing thing is, though humans are mortal, everybody goes about their
life as if they are going to be here forever.
Q: What is the news? Who is the real man?
Yudhishthira:
The word of one’s good deeds reach heaven and is spread from there across the
earth. As long as that word lasts, one is called a man.
Q: Who is he, Yudhishthira, who has every kind of wealth?
Yudhishthira:
Only he to whom joy and sorrow, fortune and misfortune, past and future are all
the same.
Source: ISHA FOREST FLOWER , August 2018
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