Sri Vasista
The joy of contentment is indeed the highest good. The joy of contentment is called comfort and happiness. O slayer of foes, with contentment the highest and per- fect repose is attained.
For the composed, with an eternally reposed mind and who are happy with the wealth of contentment, even an empire is like a piece of straw.
O Rama, a discriminating mind endowed with the joy of contentment will never be agitated by worldly pains and adversities.
Those peaceful people attain contentment by drinking the nectar of `santosha' (joy), will turn away from (even) priceless riches.
The delight caused by the blemish - cleansing happi- ness of contentment (santosha) can not be matched even by the most enjoyable ripples of nectar.
He is the one called contented who abandons the de- sires that are not possible and is equal with what is obtained, unmindful of happiness and sorrow.
So long as the mind does not feel contented and de- lighted within itself, adversities and misfortunes arise in the mind- tunnel like intertwined creepers.
A mind cooled by the joy of contentment will blossom exceedingly with pure knowledge insight like a lotus which blooms with sunshine.
The lotus of human being will never shrivel in the dark night of ignorance, when the sun of contentment shines on it without respite.
In a mind that is in the grip of intense desire to the ex- clusion of contentment will never reflect knowledge like a dirty mirror which can not reflect a face.
Even a wretched poor person will enjoy the comfort and happiness of an empire if his mind is contented. Such a person is liberated from physical and mental illnesses.
One who does not desire what can not be obtained and enjoys what occurs (and is given) to him, such a person of gentle and equal action is called a contented person.
Goddess Lakshmi glows with grace on the face, pure like ocean of milk, of a fulfilled soul with a mind full of joy with contentment.
With perfect purity as support and base, one should strive to discard intense desire through one's own (self) effort.
A mind that is filled with the nectar of contentment will attain steadiness by itself due to moon-cool peaceful thinking.
Great and vast riches follow a contented man like ser- vants follow a king.
All mental and physical ailments become humbled (and subside) in a person who remains contented within him- self, the way dust is suppressed by rain.
A person of pure thoughts shines like full moon, by re- maining cool, unpertubed and untarnished.
The joy and delight that one obtains seeing the grace- ful face of a person with equality, can not be obtained even by seeing heaps of money.
O son of Raghu dynasty, even gods and munis pros- trate before a kinglike person adorned with equality and noble qualities.
