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FESTIVALS :1 May Day; 4 Agni Nakshatra period begins; 10 Akshaya Trtyai; 12 Adi Shankara Jayanthi; 22 Vaikasi Visakam & Narasimha Jayanthi; 23 Buddha Purnima; 28 Agni Nakshatra period ends.
Amavasai/ New Moon Day 7; Purnima/ Full Moon Day – 23; Ekadasi Fastig Days – 4, 19;
Auspicious Days – May 3, 5, 6, 13, 19, 26.
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May 1 Wednesday
1.112.7. The chief secretary to the king should be intelligent, clever in conversation, shrewd, truthful in speech, with sense organs under his control, and acquainted with all sastras.
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May 2 Thursday
1.112.8. The chief ambassador should be intelligent, sensible, a reader of others’ minds, ruthless and blunt in speaking facts.
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May 3 Friday
1.112.13. Whether he is a writer, or a reciter, an accountant or a chief executive, if anyone is found to be lazy, he should at once be dismissed.
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May 4 Saturday
1.112.15. A wicked man should be avoided even if he happens to be a scholar. Is not a serpent terrific though its head is bedecked with a precious gem?
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May 5 Sunday
1.112.17. If a salaried servant of the king becomes so rich as to vie with him, is of equal competency, knows his inner secrets and vulnerable points, is very industrious and puts up a claim to half of his kingdom there is no harm if the king puts him to death.
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May 6 Monday
1.113.7. The anthill, honey, the moon in the bright half and alms wax little by little.
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May 7 Tuesday
1.113.9. A vicious and lustful man shall find hundreds of obstacles even in the forest; but if he can control his five senses he can practice penance even in his house. He who is engaged in activities not censurable and he who is free from passion can make his house a hermitage.
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May 8 Wednesday
1.113.10. Virtue is protected by truth, knowledge by further acquisition, a pot by frequent cleaning and a family by good conduct.
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May 9 Thursday
1.113.11. It is better to stay in the forest of Vindhya, to die without partaking of food; it is better to sleep in a spot infested by serpents or to leap into a well; it is better to plunge into a whirlpool or a dangerous water current than to say “Please give” or beg for a sum of money from one’s own kindred.
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May 10 Friday
1.114.10. She serves one man but cherishes love for another. In the absence of man a woman can very well be chaste.
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May 11 Saturday
1.114.11. A mother moved by passion may commit some misdeeds. Though the sons may disapprove of the conduct yet they shall not worry much about them.
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May 12 Sunday
1.114.12. The body of a courtesan is prized in the world; the body that is held at stake always with the neck torn by the hoofs of debauches and hence always agitated and anxious. Her sleep is dependent on others’ convenience; she has to follow the wishes of others and without a show of sorrow she has to laugh and sport always.
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May 13 Monday
1.114.13. Fire, water, women, fools, serpents and royal households – these are to be resorted to by others always, yet they take away one’s life all of a sudden.
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May 14 Tuesday
1.112.14. The mouths of a wicked man and a serpent are sources of distress – since they are double-tongued, causing pain, ruthless and terrific.
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May 15 Wednesday
1.113.22. Everything happens in the age, time, day, night, hour or moment as is ordained beforehand; not otherwise.
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May 16 Thursday
1.113.13. Knowledge is an ornament to a brahmana; a king is the beautifier of the world; the moon is an ornament of the sky; a good conduct is an ornament to everyone.
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May 17 Friday
1.113.14. Bhima, Arjuna and others were born as princes, they were pleasing and delightful like the moon; they were valorous, truthful, brilliant like the sun and were kindly protected by Lord Krsna. Even they were subjected to abject misery by the influence of evil planets; they had to beg for alms; if fate is adverse who is capable of what? The current of previous actions tosses everyone about.
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May 18 Saturday
1.114.14. What is there to wonder at, if a brahmana well versed in grammar becomes a great scholar? What is there to wonder at, if a king well versed in polity and administration becomes a virtuous king? What is there to wonder at, if a young woman endowed with beauty and charms errs from chastity? What is there to wonder at, if a poor man begins to commit sins sometimes?
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May 19 Sunday
1.114.16. Women may be confined to the nether worlds or may be imprisoned with high walls all round. Still if there is no moving glossy tuft of hair who can see them? [Using her long tresses she will escape from these places].
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May 20 Monday
1.114.18. He is the real scholar who pleases children with sweets, the good people with humility, the women with wealth, the deities with penance and people [by work] for their welfare.
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May 21 Tuesday
1.113.8. Seeing that collyrium and ink, used though very little every day, become exhausted after some time, and that the anthill flourishes day by day, one should be careful in not wasting one’s time. One should engage oneself in activities of charity or self-study.
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May 22 Wednesday
1.113.21. Even Ravana perished at the hands of time. Ravana whose fortress was the mountain Trikuta, the moat – the very ocean; soldiers – Raksasas; the action of the highest order; and the sastra propounded by Usanas [Sukra].
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May 23 Thursday
1.113.24. The learning of bygone days, the money made over as gift and the actions done before – these run ahead of a person who walks at speed.
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May 24 Friday
1.113.20. A man can never forsake the action done by him far into the sky, or deep into the sea or high on the mountain; whether he is held by his mother on her head or kept in her lap.
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May 25 Saturday
1.113.19. The happiness is enjoined by oneself, the sorrow too is enjoined by oneself; even the womb selected by him is in accordance with the action of the previous birth.
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May 26 Sunday
1.113.18. Man enjoys only the fruits of his previous actions; whatever he has done in the previous births has its reactions now.
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May 27 Monday
1.113.41. The characteristics of a saintly man are: he is not elated much when honoured, he does not become angry when slighted, he does not speak harsh words in anger.
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May 28 Tuesday
1.113.17. The mother is goddess Laksmi herself; the father is Lord Vishnu; still if the son (Cupid) were to be of crooked mind, who is to be punished for the same?
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May 29 Wednesday
1.113.34. Riches acquired virtuously become stable; they flourish still more with virtue. Hence, when you aim at riches, remember this and seek virtue. You thus become great in the world.
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May 30 Thursday
1.113.39. A man habitually wicked in deeds, with his conscience benumbed with evil thoughts, cannot be cleansed with a thousand lumps of clay or a hundred pots of water.
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May 31 Friday
1.113.32. When chased, a serpent escapes into a well, an elephant to the trunk (to which it can be tethered); a mouse to its hole; but who can fly from karma which is quicker than all these?
–subham—
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