Gurcharan Das Quotes

#1. By deceiving Drona, Yudhishthira corrupts his teacher's relationship with the world. So do we every time we lie - we corrupt the 'other' in the same way.

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#2. Commerce they say, encourages the bourgeois virtues of thrift, hard work,self -reliance,and self discipline.

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#3. Dharma is easiest to spot by its absence: the Mahabharata employs the pedagogical technique of teaching about dharma via its opposite, adharma

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#4. What sort of ideas, I wondered, might help to give meaning to life when one is in the midst of fundamentalist persons of all kinds who believe that they have a monopoly on truth and some are even willing to kill to prove that?

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#5. Its own position veers towards the pragmatic evolutionary principle of reciprocal altruism: adopt a friendly face to the world but do not allow yourself to be exploited.

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#6. Good intentions are useless in the absence of common sense. - JAMI, BAHARISTAN

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#7. Sleeping in the park in a city is a form of civilization. First, you need a city with enough bustle and clatter to make a person yearn for a calm, green spot. Then you need a first-class park,

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#8. When individuals blunder, it is unfortuante and their families go down. When rulers fail, it is a national tragedy

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#9. Modern India is a product of Hindu tradition, the religion of Islam, and Western civilization.

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#10. Dharma is precisely this 'discipline of ordered existence', a 'belief system that restrains and gives coherence to desires.

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#11. One should never do to another what one regards as injurious to oneself. This, in brief, is the law of dharma. - Mahabharata XVIII.113.8

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#12. Yudhishthira answers Yaksha's question - what is man? by saying, 'The repute of a good deed touches heaven and earth; one is called a man as long as his repute lasts.

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#13. When ordinary human beings err, it is sad, but when leaders do, it haunts us for generations.

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