Saturday, June 20, 2015

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

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