vadapav Posted March 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vadapav Posted March 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 1. The scholar who has acquired knowledge by studying innumerablebooks without the blessings of a bonafide spiritual master does notshine in an assembly of truly learned men just as an illegitimate child isnot honoured in society. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vadapav Posted March 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 2. We should repay the favours of others by acts of kindness; so alsoshould we return evil for evil in which there is no sin, for it is necessaryto pay a wicked man in his own coin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vadapav Posted March 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 3. That thing which is distant, that thing which appears impossible, andthat which is far beyond our reach, can be easily attained throughtapasya (religious austerity), for nothing can surpass austerity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vadapav Posted March 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 4. What vice could be worse than covetousness? What is more sinful thanslander? For one who is truthful, what need is there for austerity? Forone who has a clean heart, what is the need for pilgrimage? If one has agood disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, whatis the value of other ornamentation? What need is there for wealth forthe man of practical knowledge? And if a man is dishonoured, whatcould there be worse in death? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vadapav Posted March 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 5. Though the sea, which is the reservoir of all jewels, is the father of theconch shell, and the Goddess of fortune Lakshmi is conch's sister, stillthe conch must go from door to door for alms (in the hands of abeggar). It is true, therefore, that one gains nothing without havinggiven in the past. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vadapav Posted March 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 6. When a man has no strength left in him he becomes a sadhu, onewithout wealth acts like a brahmacari, a sick man behaves like adevotee of the Lord, and when a woman grows old she becomesdevoted to her husband. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vadapav Posted March 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 7. ...8. There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and inthe sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vadapav Posted March 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 9. The woman who fasts and observes religious vows without thepermission of her husband shortens his life, and goes to hell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vadapav Posted March 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 10. A woman does not become holy by offering by charity, by observinghundreds of fasts, or by sipping sacred water, as by sipping the waterused to wash her husbands feet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vadapav Posted March 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 11 ...12. The hand is not so well adorned by ornaments as by charitableofferings; one does not become clean by smearing sandalwood pasteupon the body as by taking a bath; one does not become so muchsatisfied by dinner as by having respect shown to him; and salvation isnot attained by self-adornment as by cultivation of spiritual knowledge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vadapav Posted March 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 13. ...14. The eating of tundi fruit deprives a man of his sense, while the vacharoot administered revives his reasoning immediately. A woman at oncerobs a man of his vigour while milk at once restores it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vadapav Posted March 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 15. He who nurtures benevolence for all creatures within his heartovercomes all difficulties and will be the recipient of all types of richesat every step. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vadapav Posted March 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 17. Men have eating, sleeping, fearing and mating in common with thelower animals. That in which men excel the beasts is discretionaryknowledge; hence, indiscreet men who are without knowledge shouldbe regarded as beasts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vadapav Posted March 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 18. If the bees which seek the liquid oozing from the head of a lust-intoxicated elephant are driven away by the flapping of his ears, thenthe elephant has lost only the ornament of his head. The bees are quitehappy in the lotus filled lake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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