vadapav Posted March 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 7. Indolent application ruins study; money is lost when entrusted to others; a farmer who sows his seed sparsely is ruined; and an army is lost for want of a commander. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vadapav Posted March 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 8. Learning is retained through putting into practice; family prestige is maintained through good behaviour; a respectable person is recognised by his excellent qualities; and anger is seen in the eyes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vadapav Posted March 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 9. Religion is preserved by wealth; knowledge by diligent practice; a king by conciliatory words; and a home by a dutiful housewife. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vadapav Posted March 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 10. Those who blaspheme Vedic wisdom, who ridicule the life style recommended in the satras, and who deride men of peaceful temperament, come to grief unnecessarily. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vadapav Posted March 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 11. Charity puts an end to poverty; righteous conduct to misery; discretion to ignorance; and scrutiny to fear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vadapav Posted March 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 12. There is no disease (so destructive) as lust; no enemy like infatuation; no fire like wrath; and no happiness like 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. 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vadapav Posted March 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 14. Heaven is but a straw to him who knows spiritual life (Krsnaconsciousness); so is life to a valiant man; a woman to him who hassubdued his senses; and the universe to him who is without attachmentfor the world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vadapav Posted March 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 15. Learning is a friend on the journey; a wife in the house; medicine insickness; and religious merit is the only friend after death. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vadapav Posted March 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 16. Rain which falls upon the sea is useless; so is food for one who issatiated; in vain is a gift for one who is wealthy; and a burning lampduring the daytime is useless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vadapav Posted March 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 17. There is no water like rainwater; no strength like one's own; no lightlike that of the eyes; and no wealth more dear than food grain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vadapav Posted March 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 18. The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wishfor heaven; and godly persons for liberation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vadapav Posted March 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 19. The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth thatmakes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upontruth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vadapav Posted March 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 20. The Goddess of wealth is unsteady (chanchala), and so is the lifebreath. The duration of life is uncertain, and the place of habitation isuncertain; but in all this inconsistent world religious merit alone isimmovable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vadapav Posted March 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 21. Among men the barber is cunning; among birds the crow; among beaststhe jackal; and among women, the malin (flower girl). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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