He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.
The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.
Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.
Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
A father who is chronic debtor, an adulterous mother, a beautiful wife, and an unlearned son are enemies in one’s own home.
A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.
One should not inhabit a country where one gets no respect, no opportunity to earn ones livelihood, where one has no friends or relatives, or from where one can not acquire knowledge.
The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.
A wicked wife, a foolish friend, an ill tongued servant and a house infested with serpents will undoubtedly bring death.
There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.
He who opts out for an uncertain thing leaving behind the certain things, loses that which is in possession and fails to get what is already perishable.
Save your wealth against unforeseen calamities without thinking that a rich man has no fear of calamity. Wealth has supple legs. Even saved riches are destroyed.
Avoid him who tries to talk sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher full of poison with milk on top.
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
If there is nectar in poison, it should be extracted; if gold is fallen in filth it should be taken out, washed and kept; if a low-born person possesses knowledge, he should be treated respectfully; in the same way a girl in the family of evil-doers be accepted, if she possess virtuous qualities.
Time perfects men as well as destroys them.
It is a boon of extraordinary austerities to get healthy and delicious dishes, to eat them and to have a strong system to digest them, to have a beautiful socially accepted wife and to be virile in her company, and to have a longing and mental set up for charity in prosperity. All these are boons.
The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.
Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.
It is better to have only one son endowed with good quality than a hundred devoid of them. For the Moon though one, dispels the darkness, which the stars, though numerous, do not
The goddess of wealth comes of Her own accord where fools are not respected, grain is well stored up and the husband and wife do not quarrel.
Do not put your trust in rivers, men who carry weapons, beasts with claws or horns, women and members of a royal family.
Trees on a river bank, a woman in another man’s house, and kings without counselors go without doubt to swift destruction.
Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.
Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
Untruthfulness, rashness, guile, stupidity, greed , unseemliness, and cruelty are a women’s natural flaws.
O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.
The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.
Even a wise man comes to grief and feels depressions if he imparts instructions to a foolish disciple or when maintains a wicked wife or when comes in close contact with the miserable.
Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend.
Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.
Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.
We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.
A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.
God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.
Women eat double than men. They have four times more wisdom than men, they have six times more courage, and eight times more sensual urge than men.
One should save money against hard times, save his wife against spending or sacrificing the money and one should save self at the cost of the wife and the riches.
A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
There are three gems on this earth: food, water, and pleasing words – fools consider pieces of rocks as gems.
He is a true friend and sincere relative who cooperates and stands by in time of need, depression, misfortune, famine, a war, in a king’s court, or at he crematorium.
