Passage 2

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This is the biggest magnet, drawing the whole world, he said. The sage Parāśara went on writing all such nāḍī books, about the future of many people of Bhārata. Translating splendidly the Dharma Śāstra written by the emperor Manu, he wrote a book called Manu's law. They concluded that there is no principle, in any śāstra, in any age or in any country, that is not in this śāstra of Manu. So the culture of Bhārata has captivated the whole world through its many fields and its many feelings. Enna bhārate tanna bhārata. That is, what is not in Bhārata is in no country, he said. Everything is in Bhārata itself. Today the people of Bhārata themselves keep forgetting the principle of the culture of such a Bhārata. Whatever comes to the people of Bhārata, misfortune or good fortune, rests on their own saṅkalpas.

Yesterday I spoke of adṛṣṭa. A-dṛṣṭa. That is, what the sight cannot see is adṛṣṭa. How do we come by this adṛṣṭa? Sowing the seeds called saṅkalpas, we reap the fruits called karmas. Sowing the seeds called karmas, we reap the fruits called habits. Sowing the seeds called habit, we reap the fruit called character. Sowing the seed called character, we reap the fruit called adṛṣṭa. Adṛṣṭa rests on character. Character rests on habit. Habit rests on karma. Karma rests on saṅkalpa. So the very root and ground of adṛṣṭa is our good saṅkalpas. What is the cause of misfortune? Sowing the seeds called evil saṅkalpas, we grow the fruit called bad habit. Sowing the seeds called bad habit, we grow the fruit called bad character. Sowing the seed called bad character, we come by misfortune. Adṛṣṭa and misfortune both rest on saṅkalpas. So our saṅkalpas must be of the noblest.

Svagṛhe pūjyate mūrkhaḥ. Who is a fool? One who, even knowing the good, ignores it, and however much good you teach him, pays it no heed and takes the crooked path: he is a fool. One who, however many ways you teach him the good, will not give up his bad qualities in the least, but clings stubbornly to them and has his way: he is a fool. They knew what Satya is. Duryodhana and Duśśāsana knew what Dharma is.