vadapav Posted March 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 12. It is better to live under a tree in a jungle inhabited by tigers andelephants, to maintain oneself in such a place with ripe fruits andspring water, to lie down on grass and to wear the ragged barks oftrees than to live amongst one's relations when reduced to poverty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vadapav Posted March 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 13. The brahmana is like tree; his prayers are the roots, his chanting ofthe Vedas are the branches, and his religious act are the leaves.Consequently effort should be made to preserve his roots for if theroots are destroyed there can be no branches or leaves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vadapav Posted March 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 14. My mother is Kamala devi (Lakshmi), my father is Lord Janardana(Vishnu), my kinsmen are the Vishnu-bhaktas (Vaisnavas) and, myhomeland is all the three worlds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vadapav Posted March 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 15. (Through the night) a great many kinds of birds perch(Sit and rest) ona tree but in the morning they fly in all the ten directions. Why shouldwe lament (Expression of sorrow) for that? (Similarly, we should notgrieve when we must inevitably part company from our dear ones). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vadapav Posted March 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 16. He who possesses intelligence is strong; how can the man that isunintelligent be powerful? The elephant of the forest having lost hissenses by intoxication was tricked into a lake by a small rabbit. (thisverse refers to a famous story from the niti-sastra called pancatantracompiled by the pandit Vishnusharma 2500 years ago). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vadapav Posted March 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 17. Why should I be concerned for my maintenance while absorbed inpraising the glories of Lord Vishwambhara (Vishnu), the supporter ofall. Without the grace of Lord Hari, how could milk flow from amother's breast for a child's nourishment? Repeatedly thinking only inthis way, O Lord of the Yadus, O husband of Lakshmi, all my time isspent in serving Your lotus feet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vadapav Posted March 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 CHAPTER ELEVEN Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vadapav Posted March 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 1. Generosity, pleasing address, courage and propriety of conduct are notacquired, but are inbred qualities. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vadapav Posted March 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 2. He who forsakes his own community and joins another perishes as theking who embraces an unrighteous path. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vadapav Posted March 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 3. The elephant has a huge body but is controlled by the ankusha (goad):yet, is the goad as large as the elephant? A lighted candle banishesdarkness: is the candle as vast as the darkness. A mountain is brokeneven by a thunderbolt: is the thunderbolt therefore as big as themountain? No, he whose power prevails is really mighty; what is therein bulk? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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vadapav Posted March 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 5. He who is engrossed in family life will never acquire knowledge; therecan be no mercy in the eater of flesh; the greedy man will not betruthful; and purity will not be found in a woman and a hunter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vadapav Posted March 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 6. The wicked man will not attain sanctity even if he is instructed indifferent ways, and the nim tree will not become sweet even if it issprinkled from the top to the roots with milk and ghee. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vadapav Posted March 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 7. Mental dirt cannot be washed away even by one-hundred baths in thesacred waters, just as a wine pot cannot be purified even by evaporatingall the wine by fire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vadapav Posted March 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 8. It is not strange if a man reviles (Degrades) a thing of which he has noknowledge, just as a wild hunter's wife throws away the pearl that isfound in the head of an elephant, and picks up a gunj(a type of seedwhich poor tribals wear as ornaments). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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