Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I 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.

Do not pass between two brahmanas, between a brahmana and his sacrificial fire, between a wife and her husband, a master and his servant, and a plough and an ox.

Do not put your trust in rivers, men who carry weapons, beasts with claws or horns, women, and members of a royal family.

Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one's own sins.

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.

Knower of the means makes impossible tasks also possible.