You must exercise constant watchfulness over your feelings and reactions, and endeavour to keep out selfishness, envy, anger, greed and other such evil  		  tendencies from entering your minds. These are nets which entrap you;  		  these vices overwhelm and subdue your holiness, so that you cannot be  		  influenced any longer. Then you  forget yourself and behave like  		  another worse individual, a person  caught in frenzy. You   		  blabber as your tongue dictates, without regard to the effect—good or  		  evil, and  engage your hands in work that it  favours. Be  		  aware and keep them in control! If you carefully discriminate,  		  you can be recognised by the good company you keep, the noble works you  		  delight in and the pleasant words you utter.
             - Bhagavatha Vahini, Ch  21, "The Durvasa Episode".
                                 
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