
The Palace of Illusions

The pleasures that arise from sense-objects are bound to end, and thus they are only sources of pain. Don’t get attached to them. And: When a man reaches a state where honor and dishonor are alike to him, then he is considered supreme. Strive to gain such a state. Uttara was too distracted by her own
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wave, we chafed in our calmness,
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She was the only consort that dared accompany the
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Pandavas
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To see a loved one in pain is more wrenching than to bear that pain yourself.
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Your childhood hunger is the one that never leaves you.
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skirmishes
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“until the day I bathe it in Kaurava blood.”
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