text,updated_at,metaphor,created_at,context,theme,reviewed_on,dictionary,comments,provenance,id,work_id
"In days gone by this mind of mine used to stray wherever selfish desire or lust or pleasure would lead it. Today this mind does not stray and is under the harmony of control, even as a wild elephant is controlled by the trainer.
(Verse 326, p. 81)",2014-06-22 04:02:49 UTC,"""Today this mind does not stray and is under the harmony of control, even as a wild elephant is controlled by the trainer.""",2014-06-22 04:02:49 UTC,"","",,"","","Reading Jonathan Haidt, The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom (New York: Basic Books, 2006).",24103,7948
"Find joy in watchfulness; guard well your mind. Uplift yourself from your lower self, even as an elephant draws himself out of a muddy swamp.
(Verse 327, p. 81)",2014-06-22 04:03:32 UTC,"""Uplift yourself from your lower self, even as an elephant draws himself out of a muddy swamp.""",2014-06-22 04:03:32 UTC,"","",,"","","",24104,7948