Limit, control, regulate, set bounds and bunds: that is the way to succeed. If people let loose their thoughts, words and deeds, calamity will be the consequence. Shastra means that which ‘lays down limits’; interest in art of living is created by these rules. Imagine a game of football which has no rules, the ball is never ‘out’, there is no foul, no corner, no offside, no hands, nothing by which you can decide who plays well or ill, who wins or loses. The game will all zest: it will be pandemonium, a free fight. Rules of behaviour must be observed by politicians, rulers, subjects, sannyasins who are leaders of the community and heads of monasteries, scholars and others, for they are exemplars and guides and their responsibilities are greater. (SSS Vol.5, p. 139)