He who gives up shyness in monetary dealings, in acquiring knowledge, in eating and in business, becomes happy.

He who shall practice these twenty virtues shall become invincible in all his undertakings.

That man who is without religion and mercy should be rejected. A guru without spiritual knowledge should be rejected. The wife with an offensive face should be given up, and so should relatives who are without affection.

Accumulated wealth is saved by spending just as incoming fresh water is saved by letting out stagnant water.

The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation.

At the time of the pralaya (universal destruction) the oceans are to exceed their limits and seek to change, but a saintly man never changes.

As a calf follows its mother among a thousand cows, so the (good or bad) deeds of a man follow him.