Saturday, July 18, 2015

CHANAKYA NITISHASTRA – CHAPTER FOURTEEN

1. Any person is suffering from poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment, is just because of the result of its own sins.

2. One can regain wealth, friend, and a kingdom but if a body is lost than it can never be acquired again.

3. Collective grass can wards off erosion caused by heavy rainfall, same way enemies can be overcome by the union of large numbers.

4. Oil on water, the secret to a shrewd, gift to a needy receiver and scriptural instructions given to intelligent men spread out as its nature.

5. One could not attain liberation when one retain the same state of mind as before while hearing religious instructions in crematorium ground, and when in sickness.

6. If a person feels the same way before and after the repentance than how it can attain the perfection.

7. One who don’t feel pride in doing following things such as charity, self- control, bravery, scriptural knowledge, politeness, and morality are the rarest gems.

8.  It is quite possible that the person who is far away from us might remain in our mind, and the person who is very near to us might not remain in our heart.

9. One should speak sweetly to the person who is granting favor to him or her. The situation can be the same as the hunter sings sweetly when he desires to shoot a deer.

10. We can ruin ourselves if we are befriended with the king, fire, the religious preceptor, and a woman. But, if we are indifferent to king, fire, the religious preceptor, and a woman than we are depriving ourselves of getting a benefit of the association.

11. We should always take precaution while dealing with fire, water, women, foolish people, serpents, and members of a royal family as they may bring death to us.

12. The person who is virtuous and pious is considered as living, but the life of a person is considered as void of blessings who is destitute of religion and virtues.

13. One can gain control of the world by performing one single deed than one has to keep five sense organs ( eyes, ears, nose, tongue and skin) and five senses ( sound, smell, taste, touch and see); and five bodyparts (hands, legs, mouth, genitals and anus) under his/her control.

14. The person who has the knowledge, speaks according to the situation, renders loving service according to its ability and the one who knows the limits of its anger.

15. One single woman appears different to different people such as she appears as a carcass, for a person who practices severe penance, for a lusty person, she appears as an object to which he can have sex and for dogs, she appears as lump of meat.

16. Intelligent person should not disclose the following things to anyone such as the formula of the medicine that he has prepared, charity, his family conflicts, private discussion with his wife, good food was not offered to him or any slang language used for him... Read More

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