CHANAKYA NITISHASTRA – CHAPTER TWELVE

1. The man is said to be blessed if his house has heavenly atmosphere and his wife speaks sweetly and he feels happy in her company.  His sons are talented and servants are obedient. In his house supreme god is worshipped daily and the delicious food and drinks are taken. Apart from this, he finds happiness in the company of the devotees.

2. The person who give donation to Brahmana in distress will be benefited tremendously.

3. The men who are happy in this world are liberal towards their relatives, nice to strangers, shrewd behavior with the wicked, love to the good people, respect the elders and strict with the wife.

4. The person is considered as Jackal whose hands are never used to give donation, whose ears never listened the voice of learning, whose eyes never seen the real devotee of the God, who never visited holy places and the person whose stomach is filled with food that he had obtained by unfair means.

5. The people who don’t have devotion to the krishna’s feet, disinterested in listening the glories of Radha and adventures of Krishna, the sound of mridanga(musical instrument) disrespect  such persons.

6. Spring is unable to bring leaves on Bamboo tree, Sunlight is unable to give sight to the owl in the day, and raindrops unable to fall in the mouth of Chetek similarly no one is able to erase what is already written in your fate.

7.  A shrewd person may get virtuous qualities in the company of devotees but devotee does not imbibe bad qualities if remain in the company of wicked people.  The earth is scented by a fragrance of the flowers but flower does not contact the smell of the earth.

8. One is blessed by the glimpse of the devotee as they have the ability to purify quickly whereas sacred pilgrimage gives purity only after long contact with these places.

9. A stranger asked first question to the Brahman that to tell him that what he considered as great and the Brahman replied palmyra trees. Second question stranger asked to the Brahman that whom he considered as the most charitable person and Brahamana replied the washer by  whom clothes were taken and returned back.  Third question he asked is whom he considered as the most able person than Brahman replied that everyone who were expert in grabbing other’s wives and money. Last question he asked Brahman that how he could manage to live in such city than Brahman replied that he was residing in a same way as the worm was living in the filthy place.

10. The house where feet of Brahmans are not washed, Vedic mantras are not recited loudly, holy sacrificial activities are not performed is considered as Crematorium.

11. It is said that when the sage is asked about his family than he answered that truth is his mother, spiritual knowledge is his father, right conduct is his brother, mercy is his friend, inner peace is his wife, and forgiveness is his son.

12. Our bodies are not permanent and is evitable to death anytime. Therefore we must not waste time and spent it with doing good acts.

13. Arjuna said to Krishna that as the Brahmans rejoices in having feast, cows feel happy in eating tender grass, and wives feel happy in the company of their husbands.

14. The person who regards other person’s wife as his mother, the wealth of other person is as mud, feel empathize for the other person when he is in sorrow or when he is in joy and see everything in the right perspective is the true teacher.

15. Sage Vashishta praised Ram for his love towards the moral values, doing  charitable acts, transparent dealings with the friends, pure conduct, modesty in the presence of the teacher, calmness of the mind, acquired the knowledge of Hindu epics ‘Shastras’.

16. Rama is superior than the miraculous things of the universe such as Kalpataru tree(wish fulfilling tree), golden mountain Meru, Sun, Moon, Bali, kamdhenu cow as all of them have some negativity such as Kalpataru is wood, Meru is motionless, sun is hot, Moon is change its shape in waning and waxing phases, Bali is born in demon clan, kamdhenu cow is the mere beast... Read More

CHANAKYA NITISHASTRA – CHAPTER ELEVEN

1. Pleasing behavior, kindness, politeness and bravery are the inbuilt moral qualities and cannot be acquired.

2. The person who leaves his own society and join another one parish in a same way as the king who chose an unethical path.

3.The goad controlled the elephant even though goad was not as large as elephant similarly lighted candle can help in overcoming the darkness, but the candle is small with respect to the darkness. The Thunderbolt can break a big mountain. From all such cases, we can conclude power matters more than the size.

4. The person who is drenched in the family life can never obtain knowledge; the non-vegetarian person does not have mercy; the greedy man will not be honest; women or a hunter will not be ever found pure.

5. The clever person will not attain the holiness, even if he is taught in many ways same as Neem tree will never become sweet even if the whole tree is sprinkled with milk & ghee.

6. Dirt that is deposited in the mind cannot be washed even by taking the bath hundred times in the sacred water. It is same as wine pot that cannot be purified even by evaporating all the wine by the fire.

7. It is not surprising that the person does not show any gratefulness for which he has no knowledge same as wild hunter’s wife throws the pearl that she found at the head of the elephant and instead picked up rural seed as her ornament.

8. The people who eat their meal silently for one year than that can attain to the planets for ten millions of years.

9.  The student should completely renounce their lust, greed, anger, beautification, excessive sleep or excessive efforts to maintain the body.

10. The person is true Brahman, who takes one meal daily and six purification acts such as garbhadhana and who have a sexual relationship once in a month.

11. The brahmana who is immersed in worldly affairs, raise cows and engaged in a business is really called a trader (Vaishya)... Read More

CHANAKYA NITISHASTRA – CHAPTER TEN

1. One who is poor is not considered as poor as the one who does not have knowledge.

2. We should careful while walking as by chance we do not step on the dirt or insects. Similarly, we should try to drink clean water and speak the words as recommended by Shastras and perform our actions after the consideration of its positive & negative thoughts.

3. The people who desire comfort forget about acquiring knowledge. The people who desire knowledge forget about their comfort. The person who has knowledge has all the comforts.

4. There is nothing that can escape from the imagination of the poet. No act is there that a woman is incapable of doing. No prated words left that cannot be expected by drunkard and nothing is there that a crow cannot eat.

5. Luck can play the big game that it can make king the beggar and the beggar a king.

6. The miser’s enemy is a beggar, for a fool good counselor is the greatest enemy, Husband is the enemy for a disloyal wife, and in the same way the moon is the enemy of the thief.

7.  Those that don’t have the knowledge, penance, good virtues, and humility are  burden on the Earth.

8. The person who is empty-minded cannot be benefited by any pieces of advice as Bamboo at Malaya Mountain cannot acquire the quality of sandalwood.

9.  The person cannot take the advantage of scriptures if he or she does not have common sense. Similarly, a blind man cannot take the advantage of the mirror.

10. A bad man cannot be reformed as body’s posterior part cannot become a superior part even though it has washed hundred times.

11. By annoying your relatives, you can lose your life. By annoying others you can lose your wealth, by annoying the king, one can lose everything and if someone annoys Brahma it can ruin family.

12. It is better to stay under a tree in the forest occupied by tigers where you can have fruits and vegetables to eat, grass to lie down, tree barks to wear. It is better to live there than to live in the relative’s home in the time of poverty.

13. The Brahmin is considered as a tree, his prayers are depicted as roots, and when he recite Vedas, it can be considered as branches and his religious acts as the leaves.

14. Lakshmi is my mother and Vishnu is my father and relatives are Vishnu’s devotees, and homeland is all the three worlds.

15. In the evening all the birds rest on the tree and in the morning they fly in all the ten directions. They are not sad for it then why we are unhappy while parting from our relatives... Read More

CHANAKYA NITISHASTRA – CHAPTER NINE

1. If you really want to get rid of the vicious cycle of birth & rebirth than you must not run to satisfy your sense organs rather always endeavor for good conduct, forgiveness, hygiene, and truth.
2. Those people who divulge the undisclosed secrets of the others can be compared with the snake that lay dead over anthills.
3. Nobody recommended Lord Brahma, the creator to provide fragrance to the gold, fruit to the sugarcane, flowers to the sandalwood tree, prosperity to the learned, and longevity to the king.
4. Amrita (Immortal Nectar) is considered as best medicine, enjoying best food is considered as best materialistic happiness, in all sense organs eye is considered at the top and head attained the main position among all body parts.
5. There is no massager that can fly in the sky and no information can be passed from the sky. The Brahmin that can predict solar or lunar eclipse is acknowledged as learned man.
6. Seven people such as student, hungry person, expeditor, scared person and financial guard and the steward as these people and need to be awake, in case they fell asleep.
7. These seven: The snake, the emperor, the tiger, the stinging insects, young babies, dog and the fool need not be disturbed in the sleep.
8. The person who have studied important Vedas to fulfill their materialistic rewards and accepts food offered by lower caste would not have any kind of strength. They are the snakes without the poisonous tooth.
9. He who cannot create fear by his anger or he who cannot do any kind of favor can neither be controlled nor protected. He is not able to do anything.
10. The snake raises his hood to frighten people, no matter whether it is poisonous or not.
11. Intelligent men spend their mornings in discussing gambling that can refer to the gambling of Yudishtra, a great devotee of Krishna, afternoon in discussing about the activities of women that refer to Goddess Sita, consort of Rama (Incarnation of Vishnu)... Read More

CHANAKYA NITISHASTRA – CHAPTER EIGHT

1. Wealth is desired by lower class men, wealth, & respect by middle class men whereas noble man’s true wealth is honor.

2. Lamp burns to take away the darkness and becomes itself dark. In the same way, our diet whether it is satvic, rajasic and tamasic can decide the nature of our thoughts.

3. Wise men disperse their wealth to needy people not to the others. Clouds give Rainwater that is sweet. The rainwater facilitates the growth of the movable and immovable products and then returns to the ocean.

4. The intelligent man thinks that the non- vegetarian are lower than that of the thousand lower class people. Indeed there is no one is as lowest as the non –vegetarian.

5. When one rub oil on its body, attended the funeral, had sexual intercourse or shave is considered as beast. Unless and until taken a bath.

6. Indigestion’s best medicine is water, if it is taken after the digestion of the food. When water is taken as soon as the food is eaten, it acts as
the poison.

7. knowledge is waste when it is not put into the practice, a person is lost due to lack of knowledge; an army cannot win without a commander; and a woman is lost without a husband.

8. A man who encounter any or all of the three following situations such as when wife died in old age, money goes in the hands of the relatives, dependency for food on others are considered as unfortunate.

9. There is requirement of chanting Vedas along with the sacrifices through the medium of the fire for the plentiful gifts. Perfection can only be achieved through the devotion and the devotion is basis of all success.

10. There is no penance equivalent to balanced mind; no happiness equivalent to contentment, no disease is equivalent to cleverness and no virtue is equivalent to mercy.

11. Anger is considered as the personification of Yama, greediness can lead to the hell, knowledge is considered as the personification of thousand cows (Kamdhenu).

12. Moral Values and the right conduct are the ornaments for personal beauty. Apart from the inner beauty, moral values and right conduct are also important for the birth in high... Read More

CHANAKYA NITISHASTRA – CHAPTER SEVEN

1. An intelligent man should not disclose his financial loss, the displeasure of his mind, the misbehavior of his own wife, bad words spoken by others and the humiliation that he has got.

2. He who gives up bashfulness in monetary dealings, in acquisition of knowledge, in eating and in business becomes cheerful.

3. The joy & peace of mind can be attained by those who are satisfied by the nectar of spiritual calmness rather than those who are greedy and impatiently moving here & there.

4. Man should feel satisfied with the three things that is his own wife, food given by fate, wealth acquired by his honest efforts but he should never feel satisfied with the amount he studies, chant the name of almighty and doing charitable work.

5. One should never pass between the two brahmans, between a brahman & the fire, between a husband & her wife, master and his servant, and an ox and a plough.

6. Never touch your mentor, Brahman, cow, virgin, old person and a child with your foot.

7. Try to keep the distance of 457.2 meters away from an elephant, a 45.72 meters away from a horse, 4.5 meters away from a horned beast, but keep away from the wicked by leaving the country.

8. An elephant is controlled by a good Mahout, a horse by a slap of the hand, a horned animal with a stick, and a scoundrel with a sword.

9. Brahmans feel satisfied with a good meal, peacocks in the voice of thunder, a pious man in seeing the happiness of others, and the scoundrel in the misery of others.

10. Reconcile with a strong man by submission, a scoundrel by opposition, and the one whose power is equal to yours by politeness or strength.

11. The power of a king lies in his powerful army; that of a brahman in his spiritual awareness; and that of a woman in her beauty, youthfulness and her sweet words.

12. Never be very straight forward in the dealings as in the forest straight trees are cut first and the curved one later.

13. Swans live in the water, and leave the place when water dries up so let not a man act in a same way that he comes and goes as he pleases.

14. Wealth that is gradually acquired is saved by spending same as fresh water is saved by letting out sluggish water.

15. The person who has wealth has friends and relations and he alone survives and gets respect.

16. The four characteristics of the divine souls in heaven that may be seen in the people of this planet earth
are sweet words, charity, worship of almighty, and take care of the needs of Brahmans.

17. The five qualities of the evil spirits of hell may characterize men on earth such as extreme anger, unkind words, bad company, service to men of cheap mentality, and hostility with one's relations... Read More

CHANAKYA NITISHASTRA - CHAPTER SIX

1. By listening one understands religion, vanish hatred, acquire knowledge, and get released from the bondage of materialist world.

2. Among all the birds crow is considered evil; among animals dog; the austeree whose sins are considered as awful; but the backbiter is the worst devil.

3. Brass shines by getting polished with ashes; copper gets clean by tamarind; women by menstruating; river by its flow.

4. The king, Brahman, yogi who visits abroad gets respect but the women who roam unnecessarily is ruined.

5. He who has money has friends. He who is rich has relatives. The wealthy alone is called man and the
affluent alone are respected as knowledgeable.

6. As is the desire of luck, ones intellect functions; one’s activities are controlled by fate, and under the influence of luck one is surrounded by helpers.

7. Living beings are born and they die with time; Time alone is awake when all others are asleep. Time is insurmountable.

8. The blind by birth is not able to see is same as the person who is blind under the influence of lust. Proud men have no knowledge about immoral behavior and find no sin in acquiring wealth.

9. The soul gets through the journey of good & bad results of its actions. By its own actions one get entangled itself in worldly bond, and by its own effort liberates itself.

10. The king is grateful to accept the sins of his subjects, similarly priest accepts the consequences of the sins of the king; husband for those of his wife and teacher for those of its students.

11. Chronic debtor father, disloyal mother, a beautiful wife and a foolish son are enemies in one’s own home.

12. Appease jealous man by means of the gift, stubborn man with folded hands in salutation, fool by wittiness and a knowledgeable by truthful words.

13. It is better to be without a kingdom than to rule over insignificant area. It is better alone than to have bad company; better to be without any student than a dull one.

14. It is difficult for the people in insignificant kingdom to remain happy. One cannot find happiness from its wicked friend. Husband cannot find happiness in the company of the bad wife.

15. It is advisable to learn a thing from a lion, crane, three from an ass, four from a cock, five from a crow, and six from a dog.

16. The one best thing learned from the lion is that whatever one intends to do should be done by whole-heartedness and strenuous effort.

17. The intelligent man should have control over his senses like the crane is able to accomplish its goal with the knowledge of place, time and ability... Read More