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ASIC ELEMENTS OF CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT 115 vut love, and in whịch the feelings of anger and rancour are 1ot allowed to enter your heart at all.
Humility
The more humble you are, the higher you rise and the nobler you become. The greatness of man lies not in vanity but in humility, not in insolence but in reconciliation, If you want to drink water from a pond, you will have to lower your head to the level of the water, You cannot drink water if you keep your head insolently high.
Either This or That
You want to enjoy the mundane pleasures of the world on the one hand and to have the bliss of self-realisation on the other. Both these things cannot go together. Godhood and animalhood cannot be worshipped at the same time. One of them will have to be given up. And now it depends on you which of the two you decide to give up and which to choose.
Look Upwards
Why are you stumbling into the pitfalls of the world ? Do not look downward, look upwards and attain the peaks. Remember, there is evil and fierce struggle below. But there is purity and bliss above. There you can fully cnjoy the pure bliss of life.
False Approach
You eat whatever good or bad things come in your way and then you go to the physician for medicine. Is there
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