Heroes only enjoy the world.
Show your heroism; apply, according to circumstances, the fourfold political maxims of conciliation, bribery, sowing dissensions, and open war, to win over your adversary and enjoy the world -- then you will be Dharmika (righteous).
Otherwise, you live a disgraceful life if you pocket your insults when you are kicked and trodden down by anyone who takes it into his head to do so;
your life is a veritable hell here, and so is the life hereafter.
This is what the Shastras say.
Do your Svadharma -- this is truth, the truth of truths.
This is my advice to you, my beloved co-religionists.
Of course, do not do any wrong, do not injure or tyrannise over anyone, but try to do good to others as much as you can.
But passively to submit to wrong done by others is a sin -- with the householder.
- Swami Vivekananda,
The East and The West
Show your heroism; apply, according to circumstances, the fourfold political maxims of conciliation, bribery, sowing dissensions, and open war, to win over your adversary and enjoy the world -- then you will be Dharmika (righteous).
Otherwise, you live a disgraceful life if you pocket your insults when you are kicked and trodden down by anyone who takes it into his head to do so;
your life is a veritable hell here, and so is the life hereafter.
This is what the Shastras say.
Do your Svadharma -- this is truth, the truth of truths.
This is my advice to you, my beloved co-religionists.
Of course, do not do any wrong, do not injure or tyrannise over anyone, but try to do good to others as much as you can.
But passively to submit to wrong done by others is a sin -- with the householder.
- Swami Vivekananda,
The East and The West
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