Sahara Group’s Subrata Roy: From money is a bad master to being grateful to God, top 10 quotes to read

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In jail for almost two years now, the embattled Sahara Group chief Subrata Roy says being confined to a prison cell with only basic amenities came as a 'rude shock' and he has often wondered what went 'wrong'. In a book, the first of a trilogy, released today, titled 'Life Mantras: Thoughts from Tihar', Subrata Roy said that 'life in jail can be painful and lonely'. Here, we present, in his own words, Subrata Roy's description of his state of mind in 10 excerpted points: (PTI)

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1. Subrata Roy: My judicial custody in Tihar jail and being confined to a prison cell with just the basic amenities definitely came as a rude shock. I, like any other human in confinement, could not contain my thoughts and at times felt an emotional outrage, 'why me?', 'what have I done wrong to deserve this?'. Thoughts such as these often raced through my mind. (AP)

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2. Subrata Roy: Fortunately, God has blessed me with the ability of keeping stress away at all times. Living all alone without any contact with the outside world would make people pull their hair or even go insane. Time is a great healer. Money is a good servant but a bad master. (PTI)

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3. Subrata Roy: Will have to live all alone with the gates of the palace locked from outside, not allowing any contact with the outside world, not even through television or radio. In such a case, some will take twenty days, some thirty and some forty, but soon after when the gates are opened, they will be found pulling their hair or having gone insane. If anyone of you does not believe this he can meet me and I will prove it to him practically. (PTI)

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4. Subrata Roy: Do you know why such a person goes mad? It is because he has stopped getting food for his internal personality. There is no exchange of duties. He is neither performing his duties towards anyone nor is he sharing his emotions with anyone. (PTI)

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5. Subrata Roy: Greed always keeps a human being in a state of tension, discontent and dissatisfaction. A greedy character can never feel, say, accept or agree that life is beautiful. I feel a sense of pity for such human beings who are singularly greedy in character. (PTI)

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6. Subrata Roy: Whatever situation I am in, I should always be happy and content. Therefore, we were very happy at that time and we are happy today. One should never be dishonest from inside and never be manipulative, deceitful or a liar because such people are the ones who ruin their own lives. …such kind of people can never live a beautiful life continuously. So never be a person who deserves punishment from outside. (PTI)

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7. Subrata Roy: In the business of financial schemes, it has been observed that whosoever doesn't have good knowledge of his professional subject never succeeds in and always accuses the company, its products or his bad luck. (PTI)

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2. Sahara Group's Subrata Roy: The Sahara Group has sought Supreme Court's permission to sell its shares in the Force India Formula 1 team as part of its effort to raise funds for the release of conglomerate's jailed chief Subrata Roy.The Group currently owns 42.5 percent of shares in the team and the same amount of shares are with troubled businessman Vijay Mallya. The remaining 15 percent is with the Mol family of the Netherlands. (PTI)

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9. Subrata Roy: A better future can be chalked out by keeping the present in the right order, living the present and being grateful to God for what one has in the present. Do not worry about what happened yesterday; care for what will happen tomorrow; mend your ways today and the scars of yesterday will fade away. (AP)

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10. Subrata Roy: You have to abide by the values, the right tradition; you have to honour the law of the land. If you keep all these things in mind while dealing with others and continue to maintain them in practice, you are an ethical person. (Reuters)