Fate being unfavorable( or without god's grace, even an easy task becomes difficult to accomplish)

Our bodies are perishable, wealth is not at all permanent and death is always nearby. Therefore we must immediately engage in acts of merit.

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

By means of hearing one understands dharma, malignity vanishes, knowledge is acquired, and liberation from material bondage is gained.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

Eschew wicked company and associate with saintly persons. Acquire virtue day and night, and always meditate on that which is eternal forgetting that which is temporary.