The appeal of the "Sri Rudram", the beautiful Vedic homage to Lord Rudra, lies not merely in its phonetic majesty but its universality of approach to God.
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