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Aug. 28th, 2005 06:09 pmDespite having been chided lovingly:
" 'Tapa is innocent, study is harmless, the ordinance of the Vedas
prescribed for all the tribes are harmless, the acquisition of wealth by
exertion is harmless; but when they are abused in their practices it is
then that they become sources of evil.' "
MahaBharata, Book 1, Adi Parva, section 1-Ganguli translation
" 'Tapa is innocent, study is harmless, the ordinance of the Vedas
prescribed for all the tribes are harmless, the acquisition of wealth by
exertion is harmless; but when they are abused in their practices it is
then that they become sources of evil.' "
MahaBharata, Book 1, Adi Parva, section 1-Ganguli translation
