The speculations of which we see the commencement and progress in the Upanishads were finally developed and classified in a series of writings called the six Sastras or darsanas.
Balarama thought that the Suta had learned the Itihasas, Puranas and all Dharma Sastras from Vyasa but he had not learned humility and self-control and that he had become proud of his wisdom.
The Sage should extract wisdom from all Sastras big or small.
For these reasons the wise never speak approvingly of partition amongst brothers who, when divided, do not regard the most authoritative Sastrasand live always in fear of each other.
And so is he the master of all those Sastras that the son of Angiras (Vrihaspati) adored by the gods and the Asuras, knoweth.
Kusuma Sreshti protested, and said that the sastras were against such a union.
The same fourfold division is to be similarly traced as the case may be in other Sastras also.
Having thoroughly searched the Sastras of former teachers, very hard to be crossed, the fortunate Sayana-Madhava[5] the lord has expounded them for the delight of the good.
Hath thy study of the Vedas, thy wealth and knowledge of the Sastras and marriage been fruitful?
Knowledge of the Sastras is said to bear fruit when it resulteth in humility and good behaviour.
Here there is light, and there is darkness on the other side, and this is empty space and that is the solid ground; these are the sastras and these are the Vedas, are distinctions unknown to the wise.
Manu continued:--Enlightenment of the understanding by the study of the sastras and attendance on holy and wise men, is said to be the first stage of yoga by yogis.
The man that is seized by the voracious yaksha of his own mind, has no change of his release from his grasp, either by the lessons of the sastras or by the advice of his friends, relatives and preceptors.
Their clearness of understanding and learning of the sastras led them both in the one and same way.
There are others who are situated in the sight of, and not far from the path of living liberation, who are employed in leading others to salvation, and in the exposition of the sastras in their works.
Now hear me attentively to tell you the sastras that they have invented, in order to propagate their agnostic religion or belief in this avidya, by setting up the living soul and others in lieu of the supreme spirit.
It is the true virtue of faithful wives, to raise their fallen husbands much more than the sastras or learning, riches, the spiritual guide and his teaching, can serve to save a man from his degradation.
There is no written testimony of the vedas, and of other sastras and Siddhantas to show, that any material thing is ever exempt from its three conditions of birth, growth and decay, and is not perishable at the last dissolution.
It is by long study of the sastras and association with the wise, as also by continued practice of yoga, that the light of the supreme spirit dawns in the inner soul, like the rising moon with her benign beams.
He that is not guided by the evidence and dictates of the sastras and vedas, is the most foolish among fools, and is never to be relied upon by good and sensible men.
Being seated in each others heart, they were as two bodies with one soul; so that the learning of the sastras of the one, and the skill in painting and fine arts of the other, were orally communicated to and learnt by one another.
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