In this short booklet Sankara gives a practical guide to many of the problems faced by a seeker of truth, in the form of a series of questions and answers.
You must avoid excessive merriment. A mind in that state never becomes calm; it becomes fickle. Excessive merriment will always be followed by sorrow. Tears and laughter are near kin. People so often run from one extreme to the other.
-Swami Vivekananda