Saturday, July 25, 2015

CHANAKYA NITISHASTRA – CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

1. The scholar cannot shine without the blessings of genuine spiritual master even though, he has acquired knowledge by studying innumerable books. This scholar can be compared to an illegitimate child who is not honored in a society.

2. We should do acts of kindness to repay the favors of others in a same coin. We should return evil for evil in which there is no sin, for it is necessary to pay a clever man in his own coin.

3. The thing that appears to be impossible can be attained by religious austerity as nothing can surpass austerity.

4. Greediness is considered as worst vice. Defaming the other person is considered as worst sin. The person who has a clean heart does not need to go for pilgrimage. If one has a good nature than there is no need of other virtues. If the person has a fame than there is no need of other ornamentation. There is no need of the wealth for the person of practical knowledge. And if a person is dishonored, it is considered worse than the death.

5. The sea is considered as reservoir of all jewels and the father of the conch shell, and the Goddess Lakshmi is considered as conch’s sister. Still the beggars carry conch for begging alms from door to door for alms. It is thus true, what the person is doing is important than the status of hid parents or siblings.

6. The man who is powerless became saint, one without wealth needs to lead the life of celibacy.

7. There is poison in the fang of the snake, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion but the wicked person is completely saturated with the poison.

8.  The woman should take the permission from her husband for keeping fast or practicing any rituals, otherwise it can shorten her husband’s life, and she goes to hell.

9. A woman does not become pious by offering charity, by observing fasts, or by drinking sacred water, as by drinking the water used to wash her husband’s feet... Read More

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