5.1  Quest for peace: Sri Krishna's mission            114
5.2  Hindu Dharma: Methods to show gratitude           115
5.3  Need to pray for fortitude to bear sorrow         116
5.4  Mahabharata's stress on truth and righteousness   118
5.5  Munificence without mental reservation, a virtue  119
5.6  Pious people are always patient and restrained    120
5.7  How destiny operates                              121
5.8  Integrity and purity of character                 122
5.9  Better to remain as foes than being untrue friends123
5.10 Wealth and power must be used for public good     124
5.11 Devotee relies solely on God's succour            126
5.12 The inexorability of destiny                      127
5.13 Six companions of man                             128
5.14 Religious recipes for keeping the mind pure       130
5.15 Influence of attachment                           131
5.16 Company of the pious is beneficial                132
5.17 Spiritual gains will be lasting                   134
5.18 Work is worship                                   135
5.19 Gratitude and attitude to wrong                   137
5.20 Bold adviser to erring emperor                    138
5.21 All actions governed by Divine sanction           140
5.22 Forgive and be Divine                             141
5.23 Epic heroine purified in flames                   143
5.24 Virtue is the shield of man                       144
5.25 Adopt law with faith and firmness                 146
5.26 Guidelines for man's good conduct                 147
5.27 Time on earth too brief to be wasted              149
5.28 Man must seek liberation                          150
5.29 Vidhura Needhi, code of conduct for all           152
5.30 Discharge duties with equanimity of mind          153