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Festival Days-
APRIL 9- TELUGU NEW YEAR, 11- RAMADAN, 14- TAMIL NEW YEAR DAY, 17- SRI RAMA NAVAMI, SHIRADI SAIBABA JAYANTHI, 21- MAHAVIR JAYANTHI, MADURAI MEENKAKSHI KALYANAM, 22- MADURAI CHARIOT FESTIVAL , 23- MADURAI KALLALAKAR VAIGAI RIVER FESTIVAL,CHITRA PURNIMA
New Moon Day- APRIL 8 (SOLAR ECLIPSE IN AMERICA ETC)
Full Moon Day- 23
Ekadasi Fasting Days- 5, 19
Auspicious Days- 4, 5, 15, 21, 22, 26
April 1 Monday
1.111.12. He is a wise man who regards another man’s wife as his mother, another man’s wealth as a lump of clay and all living beings like himself.
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April 2 Tuesday
1.113.33. A well-assimilated knowledge never diminishes; it increases on being imparted to others like the water in a well which increases when water is drawn out.
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April 3 Wednesday
1.113.30. Just as a gale blows a boat, the karma drags a man against his wish even from foreign countries to the place where he has to reap the fruits.
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April 4 Thursday
1.113.36. Of all purities, purity of food is excellent. If a man incurs impurity by taking unwholesome food, he cannot be cleansed with clay or water or any other substance of cleanliness.
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April 5 Friday
1.113.37. These are five cleansing agents – truthfulness, pure mind, suppression of sense organs, sympathy with all living beings and water, the fifth of the series.
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April 6 Saturday
1.113.49. A man gets only those things he is destined to get; he goes only to those places where he has to go (at the behest of karma) and whether misery or pleasure he gets only what he has to get.
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April 7 Sunday
1.113.48. If the time of death has not been reached no one dies even if pierced with a hundred arrows. If the same has arrived he does not survive even a slight prick with the tip of a kusa grass.
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April 8 Monday
1.113.40. He who keeps his hands and feet clean, his mind under perfect control, and acquires learning, penance and fame, reaps the fruit of pilgrimage.
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April 9 Tuesday
1.113.38. He who maintains truthfulness and purity finds an easy access to heaven. Truthfulness is superior to even horse sacrifice.
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April 10 Wednesday
1.113.50. A man gets things from karma only. Why should he shout and cry? Even if prodded, flowers and fruits do not transgress their stipulated time (they do not come out earlier or later). So is the case with karma of the previous birth.
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April 11 Thursday
1.114.9. O Saunaka, if there is no opportune moment, if there is no privacy and if there is no one to make overtures, women shall preserve chastity.
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April 12 Friday
1.113.53-56. Just as a calf can recognize its mother in the midst of a thousand cows, the previous karma approaches the doer. Enjoy your merits, o fool! Why should you feel aggrieved? What you do now will certainly follow you hereafter whether good or bad.
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April 13 Saturday
1.109.3. The residence in hell is better than that in a house of evil conduct. By the former, one’s sins are washed away whereas there is no redemption from the latter.
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April 14 Sunday
1.109.6. What purpose can be served by the riches in the hands of a miser? Of what avail to men can that knowledge be that is tarnished by a roguish disposition? Of what avail is beauty bereft of good qualities and valour? Of what value is a friend who turns his face away at the time of misfortune?
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April 15 Monday
1.113.58. O brahmana! Nowhere can they find happiness, who are defiled by lust and hatred. After careful consideration I see that there is pleasure where there is enlightened bliss.
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April 16 Tuesday
1.113.59. Attachment is a cause of misery; since apprehension follows in the wake of attachment. If, therefore, attachment is eschewed one should be happy.
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April 17 Wednesday
1.113.60. The body is the base for misery and happiness. Life and body are born together.
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April 18 Thursday
1.113.61. Pleasure and pain can be defined briefly. Whatever goes in the possession of others is misery, whatever remains in one’s possession is pleasure.
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April 19 Friday
1.113.63. What has passed has gone forever; if anything is to happen it is still far off. He who minds the present alone is not afflicted by sorrow.
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April 20 Saturday
1.113.62. After pleasure comes the pain and after pain comes the pleasure. Pleasure and pain whirl like wheels in human life.
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April 21 Sunday
1.113.57. The vicious and the mean observe other’s faults, be they so little as the mustard seeds. They see but pretend not to see their own faults as big as bilva fruits.
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April 22 Monday
1.114.5. If you wish for a prolonged friendship, avoid the following three, gambling with him, monetary transactions with him and seeing his wife in his absence.
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April 23 Tuesday
1.114.6. One should not sit in the same seat with one’s mother, sister and daughter in an isolated place. The powerful sense organs can drag even an erudite man (into the mire of lust). What of common men?
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April 24 Wednesday
1.109.5. One should unhesitatingly abandon a country infested with men of evil conduct, a residence of harassing environment, a king of miserly temperament, and a friend of deceptive disposition.
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April 25 Thursday
1.114.4. Men cannot have as much confidence in mothers, wives, brothers or sons as in a friend of kindred nature.
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April 26 Friday
1.114.3. If anyone says for once the two letters “Hari” he has everything made ready for his journey to salvation.
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April 27 Saturday
1.114.2. The two syllables “mitram” (friend) signify solace in sorrow, freedom from fear and preservation of love and confidence. By whom has this jewel been created?
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April 28 Sunday
1.114.1. None is friend or enemy to any other person by nature. Friendship and enmity arise from special causes.
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April 29 Monday
1.114.8. It is easier to gauge the velocity of the hailstorm at the time of the final dissolution, the speed of the racing horse and the depth of the great ocean than the heart of the person who does not love.
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April 30 Tuesday
1.114.15. Do not allow others to see your vulnerable points; but note others carefully like a tortoise that keeps all its limbs safe in its shell.
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BONUS QUOTES
1.113.45. During nights birds flock together on a tree for rest. In the mornings they go to different quarters. What is there to lament over?
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1.114.7. God of love compels persons to turn their attention to such spots as provide risks, death and punishments and not to one’s own? [i.e. People do not love their wives but run after other women risking even death].
—-subham—
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