Time perfects all living beings as well as kills them; it alone is awake when all others are asleep. Time is insurmountable.
ChanakyaHe who runs away from a fearful calamity, a foreign invasion, a terrible famine, and the companionship of wicked men is safe.
ChanakyaEducation is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
ChanakyaWe should always speak what would please the man of whom we expect a favour,like the hunter who sings sweetly when he desires to shoot a deer.
ChanakyaWhat good can the scriptures do to a man who has no sense of his own? Of what use is as mirror to a blind man?
ChanakyaThe Goddess of wealth is unsteady, and so is the life breath. The duration of life is uncertain, and the place of habitation is uncertain; but in all this inconsistent world religious merit alone is immovable.
ChanakyaThere is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
ChanakyaA wicked wife, a false friend, a saucy servant and living in a house with a serpent in it are nothing but death.
ChanakyaLearning is a friend on the journey; a wife in the house; medicine in sickness; and religious merit is the only friend after death.
ChanakyaDo not put your trust in rivers, men who carry weapons, beasts with claws or horns, women, and members of a royal family.
ChanakyaChankaya is referring there to the probibition of entry of the untrustworthy in the counsel-room. Disloyal persons foolishly speak out the secrets of the counsel not knowing the harmful effects of the same. Disclosing the secrets of the counsel mars the welfare of the country.
ChanakyaThe wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
ChanakyaMy dear child, if you desire to be free from the cycle of birth and death, then abandon the objects of sense gratification as poison. Drink instead the nectar of forbearance, upright conduct, mercy, cleanliness and truth.
ChanakyaThe happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.
ChanakyaMany a bad habit is developed through overindulgence, and many a good one by chastisement; therefore, beat your son as well as your pupil; never indulge them.
ChanakyaThe learned are envied by the foolish; rich men by the poor; chaste women by adulteresses; and beautiful ladies by ugly ones.
ChanakyaWhat good is a cow that neither gives milk nor conceives? Similarly, what is the value of the birth of a son if he becomes neither learned nor a pure devotee of the Lord?
ChanakyaSometimes coincidentally an unintelligent person can accomplish a task but that does not mean that he is a knower of means and device or is experienced. A ruler should be careful enough to designate other tasks to such persons.
ChanakyaAlthough an ass is tired, he continues to carry his burden; he is unmindful of cold and heat; and he is always contented; these three things should be learned from the ass.
ChanakyaThe king shall singly deliberate over secret matters; for ministers have their own ministers, and these latter some of their own; this kind of successive line of ministers tends to the disclosure of counsels.
ChanakyaHe shall despise none, but hear the opinions of all. A wise man shall make use of even a child's sensible utterance.
ChanakyaBy means of hearing one understands dharma, malignity vanishes, knowledge is acquired, and liberation from material bondage is gained.
ChanakyaAs a calf follows its mother among a thousand cows, so the (good or bad) deeds of a man follow him.
ChanakyaIt is better to live under a tree in a jungle inhabited by tigers and elephants, to maintain oneself in such a place with ripe fruits and spring water, to lie down on grass and to wear the ragged barks of trees than to live amongst one's relations when reduced to poverty.
ChanakyaAvoid him who talks sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher of poison with milk on top.
ChanakyaA good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.
ChanakyaThose base men who speak of the secret faults of others destroy themselves like serpents that stray onto anthills.
ChanakyaLow class men desire wealth;middle class men both wealth and respect; but the noble, honour only; hence honour is the noble man's true wealth.
ChanakyaLove or affection towards an individual or nation, is indicated by good action snot merely be words. The adoration towards nation is expressed by works of welfare equally done by the ruler and theruled. The ruler himself must be engatged, in welfare of th country and also should select officials examining their involvement with the public god. Self-centered people greedy of the power should be kept away
ChanakyaDo not keep company with a fool for as we can see he is a two-legged beast. Like an unseen thorn he pierces the heart with his sharp words.
ChanakyaThe cuckoos remain silent for a long time (for several seasons) until they are able to sing sweetly (in the Spring) so as to give joy to all.
ChanakyaThis sutra enjoins a rule of morality. It says nobody should be disrespected. A man can impress evdrybnody by his virtues. Disrespecting others means downfall of our own virtues. A person who disrespects others, in a way disrespect himself. A virtuous man does not disrespect his friend or vevn his enemy. Disrespect to enemy can investigate him toreact. The best thing is to destroy him completely. For a ruler this is very important.
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