Chanakya
A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.
Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions: why I am 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.
Once you start working on something, don’t be afraid of failure
and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the
happiest.
The biggest guru-mantra is: Never share your secrets with
anybody. If you cannot keep a secret with you, do not expect
that others will keep it? It will destroy you.
Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a
blind person.
Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected
everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
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.
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.
Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by
going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while
crooked ones are left standing.
The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and
accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time
and ability.
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.
He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far
away;but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really
be nearby.
The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the
nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons
restlessly moving here and there.
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no
friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the
wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.
The earth is supported by the power of truth;it is the power of
truth tht makes the sun shine andthe winds blow; indeed all
things rest upon truth.
If a king is energetic, his subjects will be equally energetic. If he
is reckless, they will not only be reckless likewise, but also eat
into his works.
The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the
wind but the goodness of a person spreads in all directions.
A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is
in the possession of others can use neither knowledge nor
wealth when the need for them arises.
Time perfects men as well as destroys them.
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.
God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul
is your temple.
Drop the idea that attachment and love are one thing. They are enemies. It
is attachment that destroys all love.
There are three gems upon this earth; food, water, and pleasing words —
fools (mudhas) consider pieces of rocks as gems.
एक बार यदि आपने कोई काम करना शुरू कर दिया, तो असफलता से मत
डरिये. जो लोग इमानदारी से काम करते है वे हमेशा खुश होते है.
उन लोगो से कभी दोस्ती ना करे जो आपके स्तर से बहोत निचे या बहोत उपर
हो, इस तरह की दोस्ती आपको कभी ख़ुशी नहीं दे सकती.
