Real victory is that, after which there can never be a reverse. Nobody can call himself a victor for ever merely by crushing an external foe, because such foes can spring up again. A real victory is
achieved by bringing under control the internal foes. A check over the internal enemies is therefore the only way of conquering the external enemies forever, because we should bear in mind that it is our own internal enemies which create the external enemies.

~ Swami Brahmananda Saraswati

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