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The Perfect Society: Four Social Classes
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santoṣaḥ samadṛk-sevā grāmyehoparamaḥ śanaiḥ nṛṇāṁ viparyayehekṣā maunam ātma-vimarśanam
annādyādeḥ saṁvibhāgo bhūtebhyaś ca yathārhataḥ teṣv ātma-devatā-buddhiḥ sutarāṁ nṛṣu pāṇḍava
śravaṇaṁ kīrtanaṁ cāsya smaraṇaṁ mahatāṁ gateḥ sevejyāvanatir dāsyaṁ sakhyam ātma-samarpaṇam
nṛṇāṁ ayaṁ paro dharmaḥ sarveṣāṁ samudāhṛtaḥ triṁśal-lakṣaṇavān rājan sarvātmā yena tuṣyati
satyam —speaking the truth without distortion or deviation;  dayā —sympathy to everyone suffering;  tapaḥ —austerities (such as observing fasts at least twice in a month on the day of Ekādaśī);  śaucam —cleanliness (bathing regularly at least twice a day, morning and evening, and remembering to chant the holy name of God);  titikṣā —toleration (being unagitated by seasonal changes or inconvenient circumstances);  īkṣā —distinguishing between good and bad;  śamaḥ —control of the mind (not allowing the mind to act whimsically);  damaḥ —control of the senses (not allowing the senses to act without control);  ahiṁsā —nonviolence (not subjecting any living entity to the threefold miseries);  brahmacaryam —continence or abstaining from misuse of one's semen (not indulging in sex with women other than one's own wife and not having sex with one's own wife when sex is forbidden, like during the period of menstruation);  ca —and;  tyāgaḥ —giving in charity at least fifty percent of one's income;  svādhyāyaḥ —reading of transcendental literatures like  Bhagavad-gītā ,  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam ,  Rāmāyaṇa  and  Mahābhārata  (or, for those not in Vedic culture, reading of the Bible or