Text 12] The Perfect Society: Four Social Classes 31

santosah samadrk-seva
grdmyehoparamah sanaih

nrnam viparyayeheksa
maunam atma-vimarsanam

annadyddeh samvibhago
bhiittebhyas ca yatharhatah

tesv dtma-devata-buddhih
sutaram nrsu pandava

Sravanam kirtanam cdsya
smaranam mahatam gateh

sevejydvanatir dasyam
sakhyam atma-samarpanam

nrndm ayam paro dharmah
sarvesam samudahrtah

trimSal-laksanavan rdjan
sarvatma yena tusyati

satyam—speaking the truth without distortion or deviation; daya—
sympathy to everyone suffering; tapah—austerities (such as observing
fasts at least twice in a month on the day of Ekadagi); sawcam—cleanli-
ness (bathing regularly at least twice a day, morning and evening, and
remembering to chant the holy name of God); titiksé—toleration (being
unagitated by seasonal changes or inconvenient circumstances); iksa—
distinguishing between good and bad; samah—control of the mind (not
allowing the mind to act whimsically); damah—control of the senses
(not allowing the senses to act without control); ahirmsa —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; tyagah—giving in charity at least
fifty percent of one’s income; suédhydyah—reading of transcendental
literatures like Bhagavad-gitaé, Srimad-Bhagavatam, Ramayana and
Mahabharata (or, for those not in Vedic culture, reading of the Bible or
