As water collected in a tank gets pure by filtration, so accumulated wealth is preserved by being employed in charity.

One who is in search of knowledge should give up the search of pleasure and the one who is in search of pleasure should give up the search of knowledge.

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.

Let not a single day pass without your learning a verse, half a verse, or a fourth of it, or even one letter of it; nor without attending to charity, study and other pious activity.

The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.

Sinfully acquired wealth may remain for ten years; in the eleventh year it disappears with even the original stock.

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.