tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10553417256734690172024-02-21T06:40:59.296+05:30Best Chanakya QuotesChanakya Quotes is about writings , Sanskrit Shloka Translation in English and Hindi , ChanakyaNiti Shastra , ethics of Indian economist, strategist , Author and chief political advisor of great Indian empror Chandragupta Maurya.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055341725673469017.post-85115774381355360012017-06-25T00:38:00.001+05:302022-10-17T22:32:10.097+05:30Top 5 Chankya Niti Quotes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="background-color: white; color: #5f6368; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">Chanakya Neeti</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: left;"> is a book based on Chanakya, an Indian theorist, teacher, philosopher, economist and a noble mentor to the Mauryan emperors between 350 -275 BC.</span></i></span></div>
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Must Read collection of famous quotes for the <a href="http://www.indianyouth.net/forum/" target="_blank">youth</a> </div><div style="text-align: center;">by the great Indian Political Pundit and economist <a href="https://indianyouth.net/forum/threads/chanakya-quotes.3974/">Chanakya</a> !</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Dharma is at root of Happiness </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">By happiness , Chanakya Means to happiness of the people and by dharma is meant the dutifulness of the rulers. As long as the the ruler or the administrator is conscious of his duties towards the people , they will be happy and contended.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Wealth is at root of Dharma ( Dutifulness) </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Dharmasya Mulartha </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In order to govern the state well and to keep his people happy and contented , wealth is essential welfare of the people is not possible without money.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Prosperity or wealth depends on ( Good governance ) of the state </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Arthasya Mula Rajyam </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In order to promote prosperity of the people and stability of the state. It is essential that the state is run efficiently.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Victory over the senses ( self control ) is the root of ( stability of ) state.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">One who is able to control and conquer his desires , is alone , competent to rule the state in a just , impartial and benovolent manner.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Humbleness is at the root of sense control.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Indriajayasya Moola vinaya</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In order to control over one's senses, one has to be humble and modest. It is the learning that makes man humble. A ruler with an inflated ego and arrogance cannot be a good ruler. If he gets down to solving the people's Problems , He has to become humble to succeed.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Attending the elders is the root of humbleness.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Vinayasya Moola vradhopsewa </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Irrespective of their status in the society , the ruler has to begin by looking after the needs of the aged.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">True Knowledge ( or wisdom ) results from the service of elders.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Vradhasewya Vigyanam </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Methods and Techniques of governance can be learnt from the texts but the wisdom of the aged and experienced provides accurate practical knowledge.When the theory and practice come together. It is called Wisdom.</span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: large;">With wisdom one becomes capable.</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Vigyanenatmanam sampadyet</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wisdom raises the quality of governance the wisdom is the combination of theory and practice. It makes the ruler more capable and more efficient.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">A capable king only become victorious.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Sampaditatma Jitatma Bhavati </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Once the ruler has conquered his desires, He becomes wise and strong enough to conquer others.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">The Victorious ( King) happens to attain all the riches.</span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Jitatma Sarvarth sanyujayat </span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is necessary for a good and successful ruler to keep his desires under control. If he succeeds in doing so. He cannot only get his wishes fulfilled but also gain prosperity.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Economic Prosperity of the state create prosperity for the people</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A prosperous ruler will govern the state well , take up welfare activities for the people and promote commercial activities with the result that soon the people also become prosperous.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The subjects being prosperous , leaderless kingdom can be governed.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the absence of the king , the people because of their prosperity , make alternate arrangements and the state continues to run. On the other hand , poor and indigent people will fight with each other and there will be anarchy all around.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The foremost duty of the ruler is to keep his people , happy and contented. The people are his biggest asset as well as the source of peril. If they are Unhappy and dissatisfied , they will revolt against him and overthrow him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>To be without a king is better than having an arrogant king.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The people expect soscour and sympathy from the ruler.But then , instead , they see the insolence and ostentation life style of the ruler who displays unconcer for their welfare they become unhappy. The people would manage the affairs of the state much better if such a ruler were not there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>After equipping oneself fully , one should seek an Ally.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The ruler should have Discrimination and the wisdom of identifying and choosing trustworthy and suitable persons of ability to assist him. This is possible only when he himself is an able person.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>It is not possible to take decision without an adviser</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">An able ruler will choose his assistants wisely. These assistants are specialists in their own fields. The ruler before taking any decision , must consult his assistants so as to reach a correct and proper decision.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">cannot be steered by one wheel, so the king alone cannot govern the state. In other words , the ruler should not be autocratic but his decisions should be democratic , broad fasted and consensual and taken after due consultation with ministers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Loyalty is the first quality of a good minister. He should not be an opportunist like the rats who leave a sinking ship. The ruler while choosing his assistants should look for trustworthiness and loyalty. A loyal minister will be with the ruler always in sunshine and rain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The ruler should be , at the same time , a supporter and a critic of his own proposed decision. Before reaching a solution , he should seriously consider both the pros and cons of a situation as well as the possible criticism that his opponents and critics may level at him</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The ruler should exclude an impolite and rude person from discussion of official matter regardless of love he may have for the latter. Discussion and consultation on official matters should be confined to persons of discretion, maturity and good behavior. A childish immature , imprudent and rude person has no place there. The ruler may love him but that is his personal choice which should not be mixed with governance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The ruler should appoint only those persons as his ministers who are learned and specialized in their fields and who are tried and tested. There should be such persons as cannot only render correct and specialized advice to the king but whose honesty and integrity is beyond question</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>All the actions and plans begin with counsel. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">For execution of any piece of work , methodical planing is very essential. Well planned is half done. A good plan can be prepared only after extensive consultations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Whatever consultations take place between the king and his ministers, They should be kept secret. This secrecy will prevent any leak to the enemy who , if he has access to the plans , will thwart the plans . Perfect secrecy , Therefore should be maintained.</span></div>
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">कोई काम शुरू करने से पहले, स्वयम से तीन प्रश्न कीजिये – मैं ये क्यों कर रहा हूँ, इसके परिणाम क्या हो सकते हैं और क्या मैं सफल होऊंगा. और जब गहरई से सोचने पर इन प्रश्नों के संतोषजनक उत्तर मिल जायें,तभी आगे बढें </span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"> संसार एक कड़वा वृक्ष है, इसके दो फल ही अमृत जैसे मीठे होते हैं – एक मधुर वाणी और दूसरी सज्जनों की संगति। </span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">व्यक्ति अकेले पैदा होता है और अकेले मर जाता है;और वो अपने अच्छे और बुरे कर्मों का फल खुद ही भुगतता है; और वह अकेले ही नर्क या स्वर्ग जाता है. </span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">एक बार काम शुरू कर लें तो असफलता का डर नहीं रखें और न ही काम को छोड़ें। निष्ठा से काम करने वाले ही सबसे सुखी हैं। </span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">कुबेर भी अगर आय से ज्यादा व्यय करे, तो कंगाल हो जाता है | </span></li>
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">भगवान मूर्तियों में नहीं है.आपकी अनुभूति आपका इश्वर है.आत्मा आपका मंदिर है. </span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">अगर सांप जेह्रीला ना भी हो तो उसे खुद को जहरीला दिखाना चाहिए. </span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">इस बात को व्यक्त मत होने दीजिये कि आपने क्या करने के लिए सोचा है, बुद्धिमानी से इसे रहस्य बनाये रखिये और इस काम को करने के लिए दृढ रहिये. </span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">शिक्षा सबसे अच्छी मित्र है.एक शिक्षित व्यक्ति हर जगह सम्मान पता है. </span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">जैसे ही भय आपके करीब आये , उसपर आक्रमण कर उसे नष्ट कर दीजिये. </span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">किसी मूर्ख व्यक्ति के लिए किताबें उतनी ही उपयोगी हैं जितना कि एक अंधे व्यक्ति के लिए आईना. </span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">जब तक आपका शरीर स्वस्थ्य और नियंत्रण में है और मृत्यु दूर है,अपनी आत्मा को बचाने कि कोशिश कीजिये; जब मृत्यु सर पर आजायेगी तब आप क्या कर पाएंगे? </span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">कोई व्यक्ति अपने कार्यों से महान होता है, अपने जन्म से नहीं. </span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"> सर्प , नृप , शेर, डंक मारने वाले ततैया, छोटे बच्चे , दूसरों के कुत्तों , और एक मूर्ख: इन सातों को नीद से नहीं उठाना चाहिए. </span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">जिस प्रकार एक सूखे पेड़ को अगर आग लगा दी जाये तो वह पूरा जंगल जला देता है, उसी प्रकार एक पापी पुत्र पुरे परिवार को बर्वाद कर देता है. </span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">सबसे बड़ा गुरु मन्त्र है : कभी भी अपने राज़ दूसरों को मत बताएं. ये आपको बर्वाद कर देगा. </span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">पहले पाच सालों में अपने बच्चे को बड़े प्यार से रखिये . अगले पांच साल उन्हें डांट-डपट के रखिये. जब वह सोलह साल का हो जाये तो उसके साथ एक मित्र की तरह व्यव्हार करिए.आपके व्यस्क बच्चे ही आपके सबसे अच्छे मित्र हैं. </span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">फूलों की सुगंध केवल वायु की दिशा में फैलती है. लेकिन एक व्यक्ति की अच्छाई हर दिशा में फैलती है. </span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">दुनिए की सबसे बड़ी शक्ति नौजवानी और औरत की सुन्दरता है. </span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">हमें भूत के बारे में पछतावा नहीं करना चाहिए, ना ही भविष्य के बारे में चिंतित होना चाहिए ; विवेकवान व्यक्ति हमेशा वर्तमान में जीते हैं. </span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">हर मित्रता के पीछे कोई ना कोई स्वार्थ होता है.ऐसी कोई मित्रता नहीं जिसमे स्वार्थ ना हो. यह कड़वा सच है. </span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">वेश्याएं निर्धनों के साथ नहीं रहतीं ,नागरिक दुर्बलों की संगती में नहीं रहते , और पक्षी उस पेड़ पर घोंसला नहीं बनाते जिसपे फल ना हों. </span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">सांप के फन , मक्खी के मुख में और बिच्छु के डंक में ज़हर होता है; पर दुष्ट व्यक्ति तो इससे भरा होता है. </span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">वह जो अपने परिवार से अत्यधिक जुड़ा हुआ है , उसे भय और चिंता का सामना करना पड़ता है,क्योंकि सभी दुखों कि जड़ लगाव है. इसलिए खुश रहने कि लिए लगाव छोड़ देना चाहिए. </span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">वह जो हमारे चिंतन में रहता है वह करीब है , भले ही वास्तविकता में वह बहुत दूर ही क्यों ना हो; लेकिन जो हमारे ह्रदय में नहीं है वो करीब होते हुए भी बहुत दूर होता है </span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">अपमानित होके जीने से अच्छा मरना है.मृत्यु तो बस एक क्षण का दुःख देती है, लेकिन अपमान हर दिन जीवन में दुःख लाता है. </span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">कभी भी उनसे मित्रता मत कीजिये जो आपसे कम या ज्यादा प्रतिष्ठा के हों. ऐसी मित्रता कभी आपको ख़ुशी नहीं देगी. </span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">जब आप किसी काम की शुरुआत करें , तो असफलता से मत डरें और उस काम को ना छोड़ें. जो लोग इमानदारी से काम करते हैं वो सबसे प्रसन्न होते हैं. </span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">सेवक को तब परखें जब वह काम ना कर रहा हो, रिश्तेदार को किसी कठिनाई में , मित्र को संकट में , और पत्नी को घोर विपत्ति में. </span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">संतुलित दिमाग से जैसी कोई सादगी नहीं है, संतोष जैसा कोई सुख नहीं है, लोभ जैसी कोई बीमारी नहीं है,और दया जैसा कोई पुण्य नहीं है. </span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">यदि किसी का स्वभाव अच्छा है तो उसे किसी और गुण की क्या जरूरत है ? यदि आदमी के पास प्रसिद्धि है तो भला उसे और किसी सिंगार की क्या आवश्यकता है. </span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">हे बुद्धिमान लोगों ! अपना धन उन्ही को दो जो उसके योग्य हों और किसी को नहीं. बादलों के द्वारा लिया गया समुद्र का जल हमेशा मीठा होता है. </span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">पृथ्वी सत्य की शक्ति द्वारा समर्थित है; ये सत्य की शक्ति ही है जो सूरज को चमक और हवा को वेग देती है; दरअसल सभी चीजें सत्य पर निर्भर करती हैं. </span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">वो जिसका ज्ञान बस किताबों तक सीमित है और जिसका धन दूसरों के कब्ज़े मैं है, वो ज़रुरत पड़ने पर ना अपना ज्ञान प्रयोग कर सकता है ना धन. </span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">जो सुख-शांति व्यक्ति को आध्यात्मिक शान्ति के अमृत से संतुष्ट होने पे मिलती है वो लालची लोगों को बेचैनी से इधर-उधर घूमने से नहीं मिलती. </span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">एक अनपढ़ व्यक्ति का जीवन उसी तरह से बेकार है जैसे की कुत्ते की पूँछ , जो ना उसके पीछे का भाग ढकती है ना ही उसे कीड़े-मकौडों के डंक से बचाती है. </span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">एक उत्कृष्ट बात जो शेर से सीखी जा सकती है वो ये है कि व्यक्ति जो कुछ भी करना चाहता है उसे पूरे दिल और ज़ोरदार प्रयास के साथ करे. </span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">सारस की तरह एक बुद्धिमान व्यक्ति को अपनी इन्द्रियों पर नियंत्रण रखना चाहिए और अपने उद्देश्य को स्थान की जानकारी, समय और योग्यता के अनुसार प्राप्त करना चाहिए. </span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">जो लोग परमात्मा तक पहुंचना चाहते हैं उन्हें वाणी, मन, इन्द्रियों की पवित्रता और एक दयालु ह्रदय की आवश्यकता होती है. </span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">अपने ईमान और धर्म बेचकर कर कमाया गया धन अपने किसी काम का नहीं होता। अत: उसका त्याग करें। आपके लिए यही उत्तम है। </span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">परिश्रम वह चाबी है,जो किस्मत का दरवाजा खोल देती है | </span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">व्यक्ति कर्मों से महान बनता है, जन्म से नहीं। </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Chanakya</b> , also known as <b>Kautilya</b> or <b>Vishnugupta</b>, was born in Pataliputra, Magadha (modern Bihar, India), and later moved to Taxila, in Gandhara province (now in Pakistan). He was a professor (acharya) of political science at the Takshashila University and later the Prime Minister of the Emperor Chandragupta Maurya. He is regarded as one of the earliest known political thinkers, economists and king-makers. He was the man to envision the first Indian empire by unification of the then numerous kingdoms in the Indian sub-continent and provide the impetus for fights against the Greek conqueror Alexander. Chanakya is perhaps less well known outside India compared to other social and political philosophers of the world like Confucius and Machiavelli. His foresight and wide knowledge coupled with politics of expediency helped found the mighty Mauryan Empire in India. He compiled his political ideas into the Arthashastra, one of the world's earliest treatises on political thought and social order. His ideas remain popular to this day in India. In Jawaharlal Nehru's Discovery of India, <a href="https://indianyouth.net/forum/threads/chanakya-quotes.3974">Chanakya</a> has been called the Indian Machiavelli, although he lived and died long before Machiavelli's time. SRI CHANAKYA NITI SHASTRA</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">1. Humbly bowing down before the almighty Lord Sri Vishnu, the Lord of the three worlds, I recite maxims of the science of <b>politics</b> & Political ethics (<i> Niti </i>) selected from the various <i>shastra.</i></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">2. That man who by the study of these maxims from the <i>satras</i> acquires a knowledge of the most celebrated principles of duty, and understands what ought and what ought not to be followed, and what is good and what is bad, is most excellent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">3. Therefore with an eye to the public good, I shall speak that which, when understood, will lead to an understanding of things in their proper perspective.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">4. Even a <i>pandit</i> comes to grief by giving instruction to a foolish disciple, by maintaining a wicked wife, and by excessive familiarity with the miserable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">5. A wicked wife, a false friend, a saucy servant and living in a house with a serpent in it are nothing but death.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">6. One should save his money against hard times, save his wife at the sacrifice of his riches, but invariably one should save his soul even at the sacrifice of his wife and riches.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">7. Save your wealth against future calamity. Do not say, "What fear has a rich man, of calamity?" When riches begin to forsake one even the accumulated stock dwindles away.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">8. Do not inhabit a country where you are not respected, cannot earn your livelihood, have no friends, or cannot acquire knowledge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">9. Do not stay for a single day where there are not these five persons: a wealthy man, a <i>brahmin</i> well versed in Vedic lore, a king, a river and a physician</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">10. Wise men should never go into a country where there are no means of earning one's livelihood, where the people have no dread of anybody, have no sense of shame, no intelligence, or a charitable disposition.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">11. Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">12. He is a true friend who does not forsake us in time of need, misfortune, famine, or war, in a king's court, or at the crematorium (<i>smasana</i>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">13. He who gives up what is imperishable for that which is perishable, loses that which is imperishable; and doubtlessly loses that which is perishable also.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">14. A wise man should marry a virgin of a respectable family even if she is deformed. He should not marry one of a low-class family, through beauty. Marriage in a family of equal status is preferable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">15. Do not put your trust in rivers, men who carry weapons, beasts with claws or horns, women, and members of a royal family</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">16. Even from poison extract nectar, wash and take back gold if it has fallen in filth, receive the highest knowledge (Krsna consciousness) from a low born person; so also a girl possessing virtuous qualities (<i>stri-ratna</i>) even if she were born in a disreputable family.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">17. Women have hunger two-fold, shyness four-fold, daring six-fold, and lust eight-fold as compared to men</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">1. Untruthfulness, rashness, guile, stupidity, avarice, uncleanliness and cruelty are a woman's seven natural flaws</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">2. To have ability for eating when dishes are ready at hand, to be robust and virile in the company of one's religiously wedded wife, and to have a mind for making charity when one is prosperous are the fruits of no ordinary austerities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">3. He whose son is obedient to him, whose wife's conduct is in accordance with his wishes, and who is content with his riches, has his heaven here on earth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">4. They alone are sons who are devoted to their father. He is a father who supports his sons. He is a friend in whom we can confide, and she only is a wife in whose company the husband feels contented and peaceful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">5. Avoid 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.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">6. Do not put your trust in a bad companion nor even trust an ordinary friend, for if he should get angry with you, he may bring all your secrets to light.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">7. Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise counsel keep it secret, being determined to carry it into execution.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">8. Foolishness is indeed painful, and verily so is youth, but more painful by far than either is being obliged in another person's house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">9. There does not exist a pearl in every mountain, nor a pearl in the head of every elephant; neither are the <i>sadhus</i> to be found everywhere, nor sandal trees in every forest.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">10. Wise men should always bring up their sons in various moral ways, for children who have knowledge of <i>niti-sastra</i> and are well behaved become a glory to their family.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">11. Those parents who do not educate their sons are their enemies; for as is a crane among swans, so are ignorant sons in a public assembly></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">12. Many a bad habit is developed through over indulgence, and many a good one by chastisement, therefore beat your son as well as your pupil; never indulge them. ("Spare the rod and spoil the child."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">13. 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.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">14. Separation from the wife, disgrace from one's own people, an enemy saved in battle, service to a wicked king, poverty, and a mismanaged assembly: these six kinds of evils, if afflicting a person, burn him even without fire</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">15. Trees on a riverbank, a woman in another man's house, and kings without counselors go without doubt to swift destruction.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">16. A <i>brahmin's</i> strength is in his learning, a king's strength is in his army, a <i>vaishya's</i> strength is in his wealth and a <i>shudra's</i> strength is in his attitude of service</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">17. The prostitute has to forsake a man who has no money, the subject a king that cannot defend him, the birds a tree that bears no fruit, and the guests a house after they have finished their meals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">18. <i>Brahmins</i> quit their patrons after receiving alms from them, scholars leave their teachers after receiving education from them, and animals desert a forest that has been burnt down.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">19. He who befriends a man whose conduct is vicious, whose vision impure, and who is notoriously crooked, is rapidly ruined.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">20. Friendship between equals flourishes, service under a king is respectable, it is good to be business-minded in public dealings, and a handsome lady is safe in her own home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">1. In this world, whose family is there without blemish? Who is free from sickness and grief? Who is forever happy?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">2. A man's descent may be discerned by his conduct, his country by his pronunciation of language, his friendship by his warmth and glow, and his capacity to eat by his body.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">3. Give your daughter in marriage to a good family, engage your son in learning, see that your enemy comes to grief, and engage your friends in <i>dharma</i>. (Krsna consciousness).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">4. Of a rascal and a serpent, the serpent is the better of the two, for he strikes only at the time he is destined to kill, while the former at every step.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">5. Therefore kings gather round themselves men of good families, for they never forsake them either at the beginning, the middle or the end.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">6. At the time of the <i>pralaya</i> (universal destruction) the oceans are to exceed their limits and seek to change, but a saintly man never changes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">7. Do 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.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">8. Though men be endowed with beauty and youth and born in noble families, yet without education they are like the <i>palasa</i> flower, which is void of sweet fragrance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">9. The beauty of a cuckoo is in its notes, that of a woman in her unalloyed devotion to her husband, that of an ugly person in his scholarship, and that of an ascetic in his forgiveness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">10. Give up a member to save a family, a family to save a village, a village to save a country, and the country to save yourself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">11. There is no poverty for the industrious. Sin does not attach itself to the person practicing <i>japa</i> (chanting of the holy names of the Lord). Those who are absorbed in <i>maunam</i> (silent contemplation of the Lord) have no quarrel with others. They are fearless who remain always alert.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">12. What is too heavy for the strong and what place is too distant for those who put forth effort? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">13. What country is foreign to a man of true learning? Who can be inimical to one who speaks pleasingly?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">14. As a whole forest becomes fragrant by the existence of a single tree with sweet-smelling blossoms in it, so a family becomes famous by the birth of a virtuous son.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">15. As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">16. As night looks delightful when the moon shines, so is a family gladdened by even one learned and virtuous son.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">17. What is the use of having many sons if they cause grief and vexation? It is better to have only one son from whom the whole family can derive support and peacefulness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">18. Fondle a son until he is five years of age, and use the stick for another ten years, but when he has attained his sixteenth year treat him as a friend.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">19. He who runs away from a fearful calamity, a foreign invasion, a terrible famine, and the companionship of wicked men is safe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">20. He who has not acquired one of the following: religious merit (<i>dharma</i>), wealth (<i>artha</i>), satisfaction of desires (<i>kama</i>), or liberation (<i>moksa</i>) is repeatedly born to die</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">21. Lakshmi, the Goddess of wealth, comes of Her own accord where fools are not respected, grain is well stored up, and the husband and wife do not quarrel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">1. These five: the life span, the type of work, wealth, learning and the time of one's death are determined while one is in the womb.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">2. Offspring, friends and relatives flee from a devotee of the Lord: yet those who follow him bring merit to their families through their devotion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">3. Fish, tortoises, and birds bring up their young by means of sight, attention and touch; so do saintly men afford protection to their associates by the same means.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">4. As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is imminent what can you do?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">5. Learning is like a cow of desire. It, like her, yields in all seasons. Like a mother, it feeds you on your journey. Therefore learning is a hidden treasure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">6. A single son endowed with good qualities is far better than a hundred devoid of them. For the moon, though one, dispels the darkness, which the stars, though numerous, cannot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">7. A stillborn son is superior to a foolish son endowed with a long life. The first causes grief for but a moment while the latter like a blazing fire consumes his parents in grief for life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">8. Residing in a small village devoid of proper living facilities, serving a person born of a low family, unwholesome food, a frowning wife, a foolish son, and a widowed daughter burn the body without fire.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">9. What 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?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">10. When one is consumed by the sorrows of life, three things give him relief: offspring, a wife, and the company of the Lord's devotees.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">11. Kings speak for once, men of learning once, and the daughter is given in marriage once. All these things happen once and only once.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">12. Religious austerities should be practiced alone, study by two, and singing by three. A journey should be undertaken by four, agriculture by five, and war by many together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">13. She is a true wife who is clean (<i>suci</i>), expert, chaste, pleasing to the husband, and truthful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">14. The house of a childless person is a void, all directions are void to one who has no relatives, the heart of a fool is also void, but to a poverty-stricken man all is void.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">15. Scriptural lessons not put into practice are poison; a meal is poison to him who suffers from indigestion; a social gathering is poison to a poverty-stricken person; and a young wife is poison to an aged man.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">16. 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.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">17. Constant travel brings old age upon a man; a horse becomes old by being constantly tied up; lack of sexual contact with her husband brings old age upon a woman; and garments become old through being left in the sun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">18. Consider again and again the following: the right time, the right friends, the right place, the right means of income, the right ways of spending, and from whom you derive your power.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">19. For the twice born the fire (Agni) is a representative of God. The Supreme Lord resides in the heart of His devotees. Those of average intelligence (<i>alpa-buddhi</i> or <i>kanista-adhikari</i>) see God only in His <i>sri-murti</i>, but those of broad vision see the Supreme Lord everywhere.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">1. Agni is the worship-able person for the twice born; the <i>brahmana</i> for the other castes; the husband for the wife; and the guest who comes for food at the midday meal for all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">2. As gold is tested in four ways by rubbing, cutting, heating and beating -- so a man should be tested by these four things: his renunciation, his conduct, his qualities and his actions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">3. A thing may be dreaded as long as it has not overtaken you, but once it has come upon you, try to get rid of it without hesitation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">4. Though persons be born from the same womb and under the same stars, they do not become alike in disposition as the thousand fruits of the <i>badari</i> tree.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">5. He whose hands are clean does not like to hold an office; he who desires nothing cares not for bodily decorations; he who is only partially educated cannot speak agreeably; and he who speaks out plainly cannot be a deceiver.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">6. The learned are envied by the foolish; rich men by the poor; chaste women by adulteresses; and beautiful ladies by ugly ones</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">7. Indolent application ruins study; money is lost when entrusted to others; a farmer who sows his seed sparsely is ruined; and an army is lost for want of a commander.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">8. Learning is retained through putting into practice; family prestige is maintained through good behavior; a respectable person is recognized by his excellent qualities; and anger is seen in the eyes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">9. Religion is preserved by wealth; knowledge by diligent practice; a king by conciliatory words; and a home by a dutiful housewife.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">10. Those who blaspheme Vedic wisdom, who ridicule the life style recommended in the <i>satras</i>, and who deride men of peaceful temperament, come to grief unnecessarily.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">11. Charity puts and end to poverty; righteous conduct to misery; discretion to ignorance; and scrutiny to fear.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">12. There is no disease (so destructive) as lust; no enemy like infatuation; no fire like wrath; and no happiness like spiritual knowledge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">13. A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his <i>karma</i> alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">14. Heaven is but a straw to him who knows spiritual life (Krsna consciousness); so is life to a valiant man; a woman to him who has subdued his senses; and the universe to him who is without attachment for the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">15. Learning is a friend on the journey; a wife in the house; medicine in sickness; and religious merit is the only friend after death.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">16. Rain which falls upon the sea is useless; so is food for one who is satiated; in vain is a gift for one who is wealthy; and a burning lamp during the daytime is useless.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">17. There is no water like rainwater; no strength like one's own; no light like that of the eyes; and no wealth more dear than food grain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">18. The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">19. The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sunshine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">20. The Goddess of wealth is unsteady (<i>chanchala</i>), 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.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">21. Among men the barber is cunning; among birds the crow; among beasts the jackal; and among women, the <i>malin</i> (flower girl).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">22. These five are your fathers; he who gave you birth, girdled you with sacred thread, teaches you, provides you with food, and protects you from fearful situations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">23. These five should be considered as mothers; the king's wife, the preceptor's wife, the friend's wife, your wife's mother, and your own mother.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">1. By means of hearing one understands <i>dharma</i>, malignity vanishes, knowledge is acquired, and liberation from material bondage is gained.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">2. Among birds the crow is vile; among beasts the dog; the ascetic whose sins is abominable, but he who blasphemes others is the worst <i>chandala</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">3. Brass is polished by ashes; copper is cleaned by tamarind; a woman, by her menses; and a river by its flow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">4. The king, the <i>brahmana</i>, and the ascetic <i>yogi</i> who go abroad are respected; but the woman who wanders is utterly ruined.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">5. He who has wealth has friends. He who is wealthy has relatives. The rich one alone is called a man, and the affluent alone are respected as <i>pandits</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">6. As is the desire of Providence, so functions one's intellect; one's activities are also controlled by Providence; and by the will of Providence one is surrounded by helpers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">7. Time perfects all living beings as well as kills them; it alone is awake when all others are asleep. Time is insurmountable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">8. Those born blind cannot see; similarly blind are those in the grip of lust. Proud men have no perception of evil; and those bent on acquiring riches see no sin in their actions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">9. The spirit soul goes through his own course of <i>karma</i> and he himself suffers the good and bad results thereby accrued. By his own actions he entangles himself in <i>samsara</i>, and by his own efforts he extricates himself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">10. The king is obliged to accept the sins of his subjects; the <i>purohit</i> (priest) suffers for those of the king; a husband suffers for those of his wife; and the <i>guru</i> suffers for those of his pupils.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">11. A father who is a chronic debtor, an adulterous mother, a beautiful wife, and an unlearned son are enemies ( in one's own home).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">12. Conciliate a covetous man by means of a gift, an obstinate man with folded hands in salutation, a fool by humoring him, and a learned man by truthful words.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">13. It is better to be without a kingdom than to rule over a petty one; better to be without a friend than to befriend a rascal; better to be without a disciple than to have a stupid one; and better to be without a wife than to have a bad one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">14. How can people be made happy in a petty kingdom? What peace can we expect from a rascal friend? What happiness can we have at home in the company of a bad wife? How can renown be gained by instructing an unworthy disciple?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">15. Learn one thing from a lion; one from a crane; four a cock; five from a crow; six from a dog; and three from an ass.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">16. The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">17. The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">18. To wake at the proper time; to take a bold stand and fight; to make a fair division (of property) among relations; and to earn one's own bread by personal exertion are the four excellent things to be learned from a cock.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">19. Union in privacy (with one's wife); boldness; storing away useful items; watchfulness; and not easily trusting others; these five things are to be learned from a crow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">20. Contentment with little or nothing to eat although one may have a great appetite; to awaken instantly although one may be in a deep slumber; unflinching devotion to the master; and bravery; these six qualities should be learned from the dog.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">21. Although 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.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">22. He who shall practice these twenty virtues shall become invincible in all his undertakings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">1. A wise man should not reveal his loss of wealth, the vexation of his mind, the misconduct of his own wife, base words spoken by others, and disgrace that has befallen him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">2. He who gives up shyness in monetary dealings, in acquiring knowledge, in eating and in business, becomes happy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">3. The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">4. One should feel satisfied with the following three things; his own wife, food given by Providence and wealth acquired by honest effort; but one should never feel satisfied with the following three; study, chanting the holy names of the Lord (<i>japa</i>) and charity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">5. Do not pass between two <i>brahmanas</i>, between a <i>brahmana</i> and his sacrificial fire, between a wife and her husband, a master and his servant, and a plough and an ox.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">6. Do not let your foot touch fire, the spiritual master or a <i>brahmana</i>; it must never touch a cow, a virgin, an old person or a child.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">7. Keep one thousand cubits away from an elephant, a hundred from a horse, ten from a horned beast, but keep away from the wicked by leaving the country.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">8. An elephant is controlled by a goad (<i>ankusha</i>), a horse by a slap of the hand, a horned animal with the show of a stick, and a rascal with a sword.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">9. <i>Brahmanas</i> find satisfaction in a good meal, peacocks in the peal of thunder, a <i>sadhu</i> in seeing the prosperity of others, and the wicked in the misery of others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">10. Conciliate a strong man by submission, a wicked man by opposition, and the one whose power is equal to yours by politeness or force.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">11. The power of a king lies in his mighty arms; that of a <i>brahmana</i> in his spiritual knowledge; and that of a woman in her beauty youth and sweet words.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">12. 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.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">13. Swans live wherever there is water, and leave the place where water dries up; let not a man act so -- and comes and goes as he pleases.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">14. Accumulated wealth is saved by spending just as incoming fresh water is saved by letting out stagnant water.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">15. He who has wealth has friends and relations; he alone survives and is respected as a man.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">16. The following four characteristics of the denizens of heaven may be seen in the residents of this earth planet; charity, sweet words, worship of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and satisfying the needs of brahmanas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">17. The following qualities of the denizens of hell may characterize men on earth; extreme wrath, harsh speech, enmity with one's relations, the company with the base, and service to men of low extraction.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">18. By going to the den of a lion pearls from the head of an elephant may be obtained; but by visiting the hole of a jackal nothing but the tail of a calf or a bit of the hide of an ass may be found.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">19. The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog, which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">20. Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">21. As you seek fragrance in a flower, oil in the sesamum seed, fire in wood, ghee (butter) in milk, and jaggery (<i>guda</i>) in sugarcane; so seek the spirit that is in the body by means of discrimination.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">1. Low 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.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">2. The lamp eats up the darkness and therefore it produces blackened lamp; in the same way according to the nature of our diet (<i>sattva, rajas, </i>or <i>tamas</i>) we produce offspring in similar quality.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">3. O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet. The rainwater enlivens all living beings of the earth both movable (insects, animals, humans, etc.) and immovable (plants, trees, etc.), and then returns to the ocean where its value is multiplied a million fold.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">4. The wise who discern the essence of things have declared that the <i>yavana</i> (meat eater) is equal in baseness to a thousand <i>candalas</i> (the lowest class), and hence a <i>yavana</i> is the basest of men; indeed there is no one more base.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">5. After having rubbed oil on the body, after encountering the smoke from a funeral pyre, after sexual intercourse, and after being shaved, one remains a <i>chandala</i> until he bathes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">6. Water is the medicine for indigestion; it is invigorating when the food that is eaten is well digested; it is like nectar when drunk in the middle of a dinner; and it is like poison when taken at the end of a meal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">7. Knowledge is lost without putting it into practice; a man is lost due to ignorance; an army is lost without a commander; and a woman is lost without a husband.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">8. A man who encounters the following three is unfortunate; the death of his wife in his old age, the entrusting of money into the hands of relatives, and depending upon others for food.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">9. Chanting of the <i>Vedas </i>without making ritualistic sacrifices to the Supreme Lord through the medium of Agni, and sacrifices not followed by bountiful gifts are futile. Perfection can be achieved only through devotion (to the Supreme Lord) for devotion is the basis of all success.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">10. There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">11. Anger is a personification of Yama (the demigod of death); thirst is like the hellish river Vaitarani; knowledge is like a <i>kamadhenu</i> (the cow of plenty); and contentment is like Nandanavana (the garden of Indra).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">12. Moral excellence is an ornament for personal beauty; righteous conduct, for high birth; success for learning; and proper spending for wealth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">13. Beauty is spoiled by an immoral nature; noble birth by bad conduct; learning, without being perfected; and wealth by not being properly utilised.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">14. Water seeping into the earth is pure; and a devoted wife is pure; the king who is the benefactor of his people is pure; and pure is the <i>brahmana</i> who is contented.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">15. Discontented <i>brahmanas</i>, contented kings, shy prostitutes, and immodest housewives are ruined.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">16. Of what avail is a high birth if a person is destitute of scholarship? A man who is of low extraction is honoured even by the demigods if he is learned.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">17. A learned man is honoured by the people. A learned man commands respect everywhere for his learning. Indeed, learning is honoured everywhere.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">18. Those who are endowed with beauty and youth and who are born of noble families are worthless if they have no learning. They are just like the <i>kimshuka</i> blossoms ( flowers of the <i>palasa</i> tree) which, though beautiful, have no fragrance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">19. The earth is encumbered with the weight of the flesh-eaters, wine-bibblers, dolts (dull and stupid) and blockheads, who are beasts in the form of men.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">20. There is no enemy like a <i>yajna</i> (sacrifice) which consumes the kingdom when not attended by feeding on a large scale; consumes the priest when the chanting is not done properly; and consumes the <i>yajaman</i> (the responsible person) when the gifts are not made.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">1. My 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.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">2. Those base men who speak of the secret faults of others destroy themselves like serpents that stray onto anthills.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">3. Perhaps nobody has advised Lord Brahma, the creator, to impart perfume to gold; fruit to the sugarcane; flowers to the sandalwood tree; wealth to the learned; and long life to the king</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">4. Nectar (<i>amrita</i>) is the best among medicines; eating good food is the best of all types of material happiness; the eye is the chief among all organs; and the head occupies the chief position among all parts of the body.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">5. No messenger can travel about in the sky and no tidings come from there. The voice of its inhabitants is never heard, nor can any contact be established with them. Therefore the <i>brahmana</i> who predicts the eclipse of the sun and moon, which occur in the sky, must be considered as a <i>vidwan</i> (man of great learning).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">6. The student, the servant, the traveller, the hungry person, the frightened man, the treasury guard, and the steward: these seven ought to be awakened if they fall asleep.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">7. The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">8. Of those who have studied the <i>Vedas</i> for material rewards, and those who accept foodstuffs offered by <i>shudras</i>, what potency have they? They are just like serpents without fangs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">9. He who neither rouses fear by his anger, nor confers a favour when he is pleased can neither control nor protect. What can he do?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">10. The serpent may, without being poisonous, raise high its hood, but the show of terror is enough to frighten people -- whether he be venomous or not.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">11. Wise men spend their mornings in discussing gambling, the afternoon discussing the activities of women, and the night hearing about the activities of theft. (The first item above refers to the gambling of King Yudhisthira, the great devotee of Krsna. The second item refers to the glorious deeds of mother Sita, the consort of Lord Ramachandra. The third item hints at the adorable childhood pastimes of Sri Krsna who stole butter from the elderly cowherd ladies of Gokula. Hence <a href="http://www.proud2bindian.in/culture-india/3974-chanakya-quotes.html"><b>Chanakya Quotes</b></a> advises wise persons to spend the morning absorbed in <i>Mahabharata</i>, the afternoon studying <i>Ramayana</i>, and the evening devotedly hearing the <i>Srimad-Bhagvatam</i>.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">12. By preparing a garland for a Deity with one's own hand; by grinding sandal paste for the Lord with one's own hand; and by writing sacred texts with one's own hand -- one becomes blessed with opulence equal to that of Indra.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">14. Poverty is set off by fortitude; shabby garments by keeping them clean; bad food by warming it; and ugliness by good behavior.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">1. One destitute of wealth is not destitute, he is indeed rich (if he is learned); but the man devoid of learning is destitute in every way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">2. We should carefully scrutinise that place upon which we step (having it ascertained to be free from filth and living creatures like insects, etc.); we should drink water, which has been filtered (through a clean cloth); we should speak only those words, which have the sanction of the <i>satras</i>; and do that act which we have carefully considered.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">3. He who desires sense gratification must give up all thoughts of acquiring knowledge; and he who seeks knowledge must not hope for sense gratification. How can he who seeks sense gratification acquire knowledge, and he who possesses knowledge enjoy mundane sense pleasure?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">4. What is it that escapes the observation of poets? What is that act women are incapable of doing? What will drunken people not prate? What will not a crow eat?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">5. Fate makes a beggar a king and a king a beggar. He makes a rich man poor and a poor man rich</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">6. The beggar is a miser's enemy; the wise counsellor is the fool's enemy; her husband is an adulterous wife's enemy; and the moon is the enemy of the thief.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">7. Those who are destitute of learning, penance, knowledge, good disposition, virtue and benevolence are brutes wandering the earth in the form of men. They are burdensome to the earth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">8. Those that are empty-minded cannot be benefited by instruction. Bamboo does not acquire the quality of sandalwood by being associated with the Malaya Mountain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">9. What 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?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">10. Nothing can reform a bad man, just as the posteriors cannot become a superior part of the body though washed one hundred times.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">11. By offending a kinsman, life is lost; by offending others, wealth is lost; by offending the king, everything is lost; and by offending a <i>brahmana (Brahmin) </i>one's whole family is ruined.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">12. It 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.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">13. The <i>brahmana (Brahmin) </i>is like a tree; his prayers are the roots, his chanting of the <i>Vedas</i> are the branches, and his religious acts are the leaves. Consequently effort should be made to preserve his roots for if the roots are destroyed there can be no branches or leaves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">14. My mother is Kamala devi (Lakshmi), my father is Lord Janardana (Vishnu), my kinsmen are the Vishnu-<i>bhaktas</i> (Vaisnavas) and, my homeland is all the three worlds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">15. (Through the night) a great many kinds of birds perch on a tree but in the morning they fly in all the ten directions. Why should we lament for that? (Similarly, we should not grieve when we must inevitably part company from our dear ones)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">16. He who possesses intelligence is strong; how can the man that is unintelligent be powerful? The elephant of the forest having lost his senses by intoxication was tricked into a lake by a small rabbit. (This verse refers to a famous story from the <i>niti-sastra</i> called <i>pancatantra</i> compiled by the pandit Vishnusharma 2500 years ago).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">17. Why should I be concerned for my maintenance while absorbed in praising the glories of Lord Vishwambhara (Vishnu), the supporter of all? Without the grace of Lord Hari, how could milk flow from a mother's breast for a child's nourishment? Repeatedly thinking only in this way, O Lord of the Yadus, O husband of Lakshmi, all my time is spent in serving Your lotus feet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">1. Generosity, pleasing address, courage and propriety of conduct are not acquired, but are inbred qualities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">2. He who forsakes his own community and joins another perishes as the king who embraces an unrighteous path.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">3. The elephant has a huge body but is controlled by the <i>ankusha</i> (goad): yet, is the goad as large as the elephant? A lighted candle banishes darkness: is the candle as vast as the darkness. A mountain is broken even by a thunderbolt: is the thunderbolt therefore as big as the mountain? No, he whose power prevails is really mighty; what is there in bulk?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">5. He who is engrossed in family life will never acquire knowledge; there can be no mercy in the eater of flesh; the greedy man will not be truthful; and purity will not be found in a woman or a hunter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">6. The wicked man will not attain sanctity even if he is instructed in different ways, and the <i>Nim</i> tree will not become sweet even if it is sprinkled from the top to the roots with milk and <i>ghee</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">7. Mental dirt cannot be washed away even by one-hundred baths in the sacred waters, just as a wine pot cannot be purified even by evaporating all the wine by fire.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">8. It is not strange if a man reviles a thing of which he has no knowledge, just as a wild hunter's wife throws away the pearl that is found in the head of an elephant, and picks up a <i>gunj </i>(a type of seed which poor tribals wear as ornaments).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">9. He who for one year eats his meals silently (inwardly meditating upon the Lord's <i>prasadam</i>); attains to the heavenly planets for a thousand crore of years. ( Note: one crore equals ten million)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">10. The student (<i>brahmacari</i>) should completely renounce the following eight things -- his lust, anger, greed, desire for sweets, sense of decorating the body, excessive curiosity, excessive sleep, and excessive endeavour for bodily maintenance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">12. He alone is a true <i>brahmana</i> (<i>dvija</i> or "twice-born") who is satisfied with one meal a day, who has the six <i>samskaras</i> (or acts of purification such as <i>garbhadhana</i>, etc.) performed for him, and who cohabits with his wife only once in a month on an auspicious day after her menses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">13. The <i>brahmana</i> who is engrossed in worldly affairs, brings up cows and is engaged in trade is really called a <i>vaishya</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">14. The <i>brahmana</i> who deals in lac-die, articles, oil, indigo, silken cloth, honey, clarified butter, liquor, and flesh is called a <i>shudra</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">15. The <i>brahmana</i> who thwarts the doings of others, who is hypocritical, selfish, and a deceitful hater, and while speaking mildly cherishes cruelty in his heart, is called a cat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">16. The <i>brahmana</i> who destroys a pond, a well, a tank, a garden and a temple is called a <i>mleccha</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">17. The <i>brahmana</i> who steals the property of the Deities and the spiritual preceptor, who cohabits with another's wife, and who maintains himself by eating anything and everything s called a <i>chandala</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">18. The meritorious should give away in charity all that they have in excess of their needs. By charity only Karna, Bali and King Vikramaditya survive even today. Just see the plight of the honeybees beating their legs in despair upon the earth. They are saying to themselves, "Alas! We neither enjoyed our stored-up honey nor gave it in charity, and now someone has taken it from us in an instant."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">1. He is a blessed <i>grhasta</i> (householder) in whose house there is a blissful atmosphere, whose sons are talented, whose wife speaks sweetly, whose wealth is enough to satisfy his desires, who finds pleasure in the company of his wife, whose servants are obedient, in whose house hospitality is shown, the auspicious Supreme Lord is worshiped daily, delicious food and drink is partaken, and who finds joy in the company of devotees.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">2. One who devotedly gives a little to a <i>brahmana</i> who is in distress is recompensed abundantly. Hence, O Prince, what is given to a good <i>brahmana</i> is got back not in an equal quantity, but in an infinitely higher degree.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">3. Those men who are happy in this world, who are generous towards their relatives, kind to strangers, indifferent to the wicked, loving to the good, shrewd in their dealings with the base, frank with the learned, courageous with enemies, humble with elders and stern with the wife.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">4. O jackal, leave aside the body of that man at once, whose hands have never given in charity, whose ears have not heard the voice of learning, whose eyes have not beheld a pure devotee of the Lord, whose feet have never traversed to holy places, whose belly is filled with things obtained by crooked practices, and whose head is held high in vanity. Do not eat it, O jackal, otherwise you will become polluted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">5. "Shame upon those who have no devotion to the lotus feet of Sri Krsna, the son of mother Yasoda; who have no attachment for the descriptions of the glories of Srimati Radharani; whose ears are not eager to listen to the stories of the Lord's lila." Such is the exclamation of the <i>mrdanga</i> sound of <i>dhik-tam dhik-tam dhigatam </i>at <i>kirtana</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">6. What fault of spring that the bamboo shoot has no leaves? What fault of the sun if the owl cannot see during the daytime? Is it the fault of the clouds if no raindrops fall into the mouth of the <i>chatak</i> bird? Who can erase what Lord Brahma has inscribed upon our foreheads at the time of birth?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">7. A wicked man may develop saintly qualities in the company of a devotee, but a devotee does not become impious in the company of a wicked person. The earth is scented by a flower that falls upon it, but the flower does not contact the odour of the earth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">8. One indeed becomes blessed by having <i>darshan</i> of a devotee; for the devotee has the ability to purify immediately, whereas the sacred <i>tirtha</i> gives purity only after prolonged contact.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">9. A stranger asked a <i>brahmana,</i> "Tell me, who is great in this city?" The <i>brahmana </i>replied, "The cluster of palmyra trees is great." Then the traveller asked, "Who is the most charitable person?" The <i>brahmana</i> answered, "The washer man who takes the clothes in the morning and gives them back in the evening is the most charitable." He then asked, "Who is the ablest man?" The <i>brahmana</i> answered, "Everyone is expert in robbing others of their wives and wealth." The man then asked the <i>brahmana</i>, "How do you manage to live in such a city?" The <i>brahmana</i> replied, "As a worm survives while even in a filthy place so do I survive here!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">10. The house in which the lotus feet of <i>brahmanas</i> are not washed, in which <i>Vedic</i> mantras are not loudly recited, and in which the holy rites of <i>svaha</i> (sacrificial offerings to the Supreme Lord) and <i>swadha</i> (offerings to the ancestors) are not performed, is like a crematorium.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">11. (It is said that a <i>sadhu</i>, when asked about his family, replied thusly): truth is my mother, and my father is spiritual knowledge; righteous conduct is my brother, and mercy is my friend, inner peace is my wife, and forgiveness is my son: these six are my kinsmen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">12. Our bodies are perishable, wealth is not at all permanent and death is always nearby. Therefore we must immediately engage in acts of merit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">13. Arjuna says to Krsna. "<i>Brahmanas</i> find joy in going to feasts, cows find joy in eating their tender grass, wives find joy in the company of their husbands, and know, O Krsna, that in the same way I rejoice in battle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">14. He who regards another's wife as his mother, the wealth that does not belong to him as a lump of mud, and the pleasure and pain of all other living beings as his own -- truly sees things in the right perspective, and he is a true <i>pandit</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">15. O Raghava, the love of virtue, pleasing speech, and an ardent desire for performing acts of charity, guileless dealings with friends, humility in the guru's presence, deep tranquillity of mind, pure conduct, discernment of virtues, realised knowledge of the <i>sastras</i>, beauty of form and devotion to God are all found in you." (The great sage Vasistha Muni, the spiritual preceptor of the dynasty of the sun, said this to Lord Ramachandra at the time of His proposed coronation)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">16. Kalpataru (the wish fulfilling tree) is but wood; the golden Mount Meru is motionless; the wish-fulfilling gem <i>chintamani</i> is just a stone; the sun is scorching; the moon is prone to wane; the boundless ocean is saline; the demigod of lust lost his body (due to Shiva's wrath); Bali Maharaja, the son of Diti, was born into a clan of demons; and Kamadhenu (the cow of heaven) is a mere beast. O Lord of the Raghu dynasty! I cannot compare you to any one of these (taking their merits into account).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">17. Realised learning (<i>vidya</i>) is our friend while travelling, the wife is a friend at home, medicine is the friend of a sick man, and meritorious deeds are the friends at death.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">18. Courtesy should be learned from princes, the art of conversation from <i>pandits</i>, lying should be learned from gamblers and deceitful ways should be learned from women.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">19. The unthinking spender, the homeless urchin, the quarrel monger, the man who neglects his wife and is heedless in his actions -- all these will soon come to ruination.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">20. The wise man should not be anxious about his food; he should be anxious to be engaged only in <i>dharma</i> (Krsna consciousness). The food of each man is created for him at his birth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">21. He who is not shy in the acquisition of wealth, grain and knowledge, and in taking his meals, will be happy</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">22. As centesimal droppings will fill a pot so also are knowledge, virtue and wealth gradually obtained.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">23. The man who remains a fool even in advanced age is really a fool, just as the Indra-Varuna fruit does not become sweet no matter how ripe it might become.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">1. A man may live but for a moment, but that moment should be spent in doing auspicious deeds. It is useless living even for a <i>kalpa</i> (4,320,000 *1000 years) and bringing only distress upon the two worlds (this world and the next).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">2. We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">3. It certainly is nature of the demigods, men of good character, and parents to be easily pleased. Near and distant relatives are pleased when they are hospitably received with bathing, food, and drink; and <i>pandits</i> are pleased with an opportunity for giving spiritual discourse.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">4 Even as the unborn babe is in the womb of his mother, these five are fixed as his life destiny: his life span, his activities, his acquisition of wealth and knowledge, and his time of death.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">5. Oh, see what a wonder it is! The doings of the great are strange: they treat wealth as light as a straw, yet, when they obtain it, they bend under its weight</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">6. He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">7. He who is prepared for the future and he who deals cleverly with any situation that may arise are both happy; but the fatalistic man who wholly depends on luck is ruined.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">8. If the king is virtuous, then the subjects are also virtuous. If the king is sinful, then the subjects also become sinful. If he is mediocre, then the subjects are mediocre. The subjects follow the example of the king. In short, as is the king so are the subjects.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">9. I consider him who does not act religiously as dead though living, but he who dies acting religiously unquestionably lives long though he is dead.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">10. He who has acquired neither virtue, wealth, satisfaction of desires nor salvation (<i>dharma, artha, kama, moksa</i>), lives an utterly useless life, like the "nipples" hanging from the neck of a goat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">11. The hearts of base men burn before the fire of other's fame, and they slander them being themselves unable to rise to such a high position.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">12. Excessive attachment to sense pleasures leads to bondage, and detachment from sense pleasures leads to liberation; therefore it is the mind alone that is responsible for bondage or liberation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">13. He who sheds bodily identification by means of knowledge of the indwelling Supreme Self (<i>Paramatma</i>), will always be absorbed in meditative trance (<i>samadhi</i>) wherever his mind leads him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">14. Who realises all the happiness he desires? Everything is in the hands of God. Therefore one should learn contentment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">15. As a calf follows its mother among a thousand cows, so the (good or bad) deeds of a man follow him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">16. He whose actions are disorganised has no happiness either in the midst of men or in a jungle -- in the midst of men his heart burns by social contacts, and his helplessness burns him in the forest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">17. As the man who digs obtains underground water by use of a shovel, so the student attains the knowledge possessed by his preceptor through his service</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">18. Men reap the fruits of their deeds, and intellects bear the mark of deeds performed in previous lives; even so the wise act after due circumspection.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">19. Even the man who has taught the spiritual significance of just one letter ought to be worshiped. He who does not give reverence to such a <i>guru </i>is born as a dog a hundred times, and at last takes birth as a <i>chandala</i> (dog-eater).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">20. At the end of the <i>yuga</i>, Mount Meru may be shaken; at the end of the <i>kalpa</i>, the waters of the seven oceans may be disturbed; but a <i>sadhu</i> will never swerve from the spiritual path.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">21. There are three gems upon this earth; food, water, and pleasing words -- fools (<i>mudhas</i>) consider pieces of rocks as gems.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">1. Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one's own sins.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">2. Wealth, a friend, a wife, and a kingdom may be regained; but this body when lost may never be acquired again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">3. The enemy can be overcome by the union of large numbers, just as grass through its collectiveness wards off erosion caused by heavy rainfall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">4. Oil on water, a secret communicated to a base man, a gift given to a worthy receiver, and scriptural instruction given to an intelligent man spread out by virtue of their nature.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">5. If men should always retain the state of mind they experience when hearing religious instruction, when present at a crematorium ground, and when in sickness -- then who could not attain liberation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">6. If a man should feel before, as he feels after, repentance -- then who would not attain perfection?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">7. We should not feel pride in our charity, austerity, valour, scriptural knowledge, modesty and morality for the world is full of the rarest gems.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">8. He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">9. We 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.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">10. It is ruinous to be familiar with the king, fire, the religious preceptor, and a woman. To be altogether indifferent to them is to be deprived of the opportunity to benefit ourselves, hence our association with them must be from a safe distance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">11. We should always deal cautiously with fire, water, women, foolish people, serpents, and members of a royal family; for they may, when the occasion presents itself, at once bring about our death.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">12. He should be considered to be living who is virtuous and pious, but the life of a man who is destitute of religion and virtues is void of any blessing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">13. If you wish to gain control of the world by the performance of a single deed, then keep the following fifteen, which are prone to wander here and there, from getting the upper hand of you: the five sense objects (objects of sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch); the five sense organs (ears, eyes, nose, tongue and skin) and organs of activity (hands, legs, mouth, genitals and anus).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">14. He is a <i>pandit</i> (man of knowledge) who speaks what is suitable to the occasion, who renders loving service according to his ability, and who knows the limits of his anger. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">15 One single object (a woman) appears in three different ways: to the man who practices austerity it appears as a corpse, to the sensual it appears as a woman, and to the dogs as a lump of flesh.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">16. A wise man should not divulge the formula of a medicine which he has well prepared; an act of charity which he has performed; domestic conflicts; private affairs with his wife; poorly prepared food he may have been offered; or slang he may have heard. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">17. The 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.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">18. We should secure and keep the following: the blessings of meritorious deeds, wealth, grain, the words of the spiritual master, and rare medicines. Otherwise life becomes impossible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">19. 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.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">1. For one whose heart melts with compassion for all creatures; what is the necessity of knowledge, liberation, matted hair on the head, and smearing the body with ashes?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">2. There is no treasure on earth the gift of which will cancel the debt a disciple owes his <i>guru for </i>having taught him even a single letter (that leads to Krsna consciousness).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">3. There are two ways to get rid of thorns and wicked persons; using footwear in the first place and in the second shaming them so that they cannot raise their faces again thus keeping them at a distance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">5. He who loses his money is forsaken by his friends, his wife, his servants and his relations; yet when he regains his riches those who have forsaken him come back to him. Hence wealth is certainly the best of relations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">7. A bad action committed by a great man is not censured (as there is none that can reproach him), and a good action performed by a low-class man comes to be condemned (because none respects him). Just see: the drinking of nectar is excellent, but it became the cause of Rahu's demise; and the drinking of poison is harmful, but when Lord Shiva (who is exalted) drank it, it became an ornament to his neck (<i>nila-kantha</i>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">8. A true meal is that which consists of the remnants left after a <i>brahmana's </i>meal. Love, which is shown to others, is true love, not that which is cherished for one's own self. To abstain from sin is true wisdom. That is an act of charity, which is performed without ostentation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">9. For want of discernment the most precious jewels lie in the dust at the feet of men while bits of glass are worn on their heads. But we should not imagine that the gems have sunk in value, and the bits of glass have risen in importance. When a person of critical judgement shall appear, each will be given its right position.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">10. <i>Sastric (scriptural)</i> knowledge is unlimited, and the arts to be learned are many; the time we have is short, and our opportunities to learn are beset with obstacles. Therefore select for learning that which is most important, just as the swan drinks only the milk in water.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">11. He is a <i>chandala</i> who eats his dinner without entertaining the stranger who has come to his house quite accidentally, having travelled from a long distance and is wearied.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">12. One may know the four <i>Vedas</i> and the <i>Dharma-sastras</i>, yet if he has no realisation of his own spiritual self, he can be said to be like the ladle (spoon) which stirs all kinds of foods but knows not the taste of any.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">13. Those blessed souls are certainly elevated who, while crossing the ocean of life, take shelter of a genuine <i>brahmana</i>, who is likened unto a boat. They are unlike passengers aboard an ordinary ship that runs the risk of sinking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">14. The moon, who is the abode of nectar and the presiding deity of all medicines, although immortal like <i>amrta</i> and resplendent in form, loses the brilliance of his rays when he repairs to the abode of the sun (day time). Therefore, will not an ordinary man be made to feel inferior by going to live at the house of another?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">15. This humble bee, which always resides among the soft petals of the lotus and drinks abundantly its sweet nectar, is now feasting on the flower of the ordinary <i>kutaja</i>. Being in a strange country where the lotuses do not exist, he is considering the pollen of the <i>kutaja</i> to be nice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">16. (Lord Visnu asked His spouse Lakshmi why She did not care to live in the house of a <i>brahmana.</i>She replied:)" O Lord a <i>rishi</i> named Agastya drank up My father (the ocean) in anger; Brighu Muni kicked You; <i>brahmanas</i> pride themselves on their learning having sought the favour of My competitor Sarasvati; and lastly they pluck each day the lotus which is My abode, and therewith worship Lord Shiva. Therefore, O Lord, I fear to dwell with a <i>brahmana".</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">17. There are many ways of binding by which one can be dominated and controlled in this world, but the bond of affection is the strongest. For example, take the case of the humble bee, which, although expert at piercing hardened wood, becomes caught in the embrace of its beloved flowers (as the petals close at dusk).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">18. Although sandalwood is cut, it does not forsake its natural quality of fragrance; so also the elephant does not give up sportiveness though he should grow old. The sugarcane does not cease to be sweet though squeezed in a mill; so the man of noble extraction does not lose his lofty qualities, no matter how pinched he is by poverty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">1. The heart of a woman is not united; it is divided. While she is talking with one man, she looks lustfully at another and thinks fondly of a third in her heart.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">2. The fool (<i>mudha</i>) who fancies that a charming young lady loves him, becomes her slave and he dances like a <i>shakuntal</i> bird tied to a string.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">3. Who is there who, having become rich, has not become proud? What licentious man has put an end to his calamities? What man in this world has not been overcome by a woman? Who is always loved by the king? Who is there who has not been overcome by the ravages of time? What beggar has attained glory? Who has become happy by contracting the vices of the wicked?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">4. A man attains greatness by his merits, not simply by occupying an exalted seat. Can we call a crow an eagle (<i>garuda</i>) simply because he sits on the top of a tall building.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">5. The man who is praised by others as great is regarded as worthy though he may be really void of all merit. But the man who sings his own praises lowers himself in the estimation of others though he should be Indra (the possessor of all excellences).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">6. If good qualities should characterise a man of discrimination, the brilliance of his qualities will be recognised just as a gem, which is essentially bright, really shines when fixed in an ornament of gold.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">7. Even one who by his qualities appears to be all knowing suffers without patronage; the gem, though precious, requires a gold setting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">8. I do not deserve that wealth which is to be attained by enduring much suffering, or by transgressing the rules of virtue, or by flattering an enemy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">9. Those who were not satiated with the enjoyment of wealth, food and women have all passed away; there are others now passing away who have likewise remained unsatiated; and in the future still others will pass away feeling themselves unsatiated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">10. All charities and sacrifices (performed for fruitive gain) bring only temporary results, but gifts made to deserving persons and protection offered to all creatures shall never perish</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">11. A blade of grass is light, cotton is lighter, and the beggar is infinitely lighter still. Why then does not the wind carry him away? Because it fears that he may ask alms of him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">12. It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">13. All the creatures are pleased by loving words; and therefore we should address words that are pleasing to all, for there is no lack of sweet words.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">14. There are two nectarine fruits hanging from the tree of this world: one is the hearing of sweet words (such as Krsna-<i>katha</i>) and the other, the society of saintly men.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">15. The good habits of charity, learning and austerity practised during many past lives continue to be cultivated in this birth by virtue of the link (<i>yoga</i>) of this present life to the previous ones.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">16. One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">1. The scholar who has acquired knowledge by studying innumerable books without the blessings of a bonafide spiritual master does not shine in an assembly of truly learned men just as an illegitimate child is not honoured in society.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">2. We should repay the favours of others by acts of kindness; so also should we return evil for evil in which there is no sin, for it is necessary to pay a wicked man in his own coin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">3. That thing which is distant, that thing which appears impossible, and that which is far beyond our reach, can be easily attained through <i>tapasya</i> (religious austerity), for nothing can surpass austerity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">4. What vice could be worse than covetousness? What is more sinful than slander? For one who is truthful, what need is there for austerity? For one who has a clean heart, what is the need for pilgrimage? If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation? What need is there for wealth for the man of practical knowledge? And if a man is dishonoured, what could there be worse than death?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">5. Though the sea, which is the reservoir of all jewels, is the father of the conch shell, and the Goddess of fortune Lakshmi is conch's sister, still the conch must go from door to door for alms (in the hands of a beggar). It is true, therefore, that one gains nothing without having given in the past.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">6. When a man has no strength left in him he becomes a <i>sadhu</i>, one without wealth acts like a <i>brahmacari</i>, a sick man behaves like a devotee of the Lord, and when a woman grows old she becomes devoted to her husband.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">8. There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">9. The woman who fasts and observes religious vows without the permission of her husband shortens his life, and goes to hell.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">10. A woman does not become holy by offering charity, by observing hundreds of fasts, or by sipping sacred water, as by sipping the water used to wash her husbands feet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">12. The hand is not so well adorned by ornaments as by charitable offerings; one does not become clean by smearing sandalwood paste upon the body as by taking a bath; one does not become so much satisfied by dinner as by having respect shown to him; and salvation is not attained by self-adornment as by cultivation of spiritual knowledge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">14. The eating of <i>tundi</i> fruit deprives a man of his sense, while the <i>vacha</i> root administered revives his reasoning immediately. A woman at once robs a man of his vigour while milk at once restores it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">15. He who nurtures benevolence for all creatures within his heart overcomes all difficulties and will be the recipient of all types of riches at every step.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">16. What is there to be enjoyed in the world of Lord Indra for one whose wife is loving and virtuous, who possesses wealth, who has a well-behaved son endowed with good qualities, and who has grandchildren born of his children?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">17. Men have eating, sleeping, fearing and mating in common with the lower animals. That in which men excel the beasts is discretionary knowledge; hence, indiscreet men who are without knowledge should be regarded as beasts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">18. If the bees that seek the liquid oozing from the head of a lust-intoxicated elephant are driven away by the flapping of his ears, then the elephant has lost only the ornament of his head. The bees are quite happy in the lotus filled lake.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">19. A king, a prostitute, Lord Yamaraja, fire, a thief, a young boy, and a beggar cannot understand the suffering of others. The eighth of this category is the tax collector.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">20. O lady, why are you gazing downward? Has something of yours fallen on the ground? (She replies) O fool, can you not understand the pearl of my youth has slipped away?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">21. O <i>ketki</i> flower! Serpents live in your midst, you bear no edible fruits, your leaves are covered with thorns, you are crooked in growth, you thrive in mud, and you are not easily accessible. Still for your exceptional fragrance you are as dear as kinsmen to others. Hence, a single excellence overcomes a multitude of blemishes.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;"> My collection of rare political quotes and writing of Indian Politician and economist Chanakya</span></i></div>
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<b>A permanent relationship is dependent on particular purpose (or wealth). </b></div>
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Every relationship has one or the other motive behind it. Friendship or enemity are not purposeless.Oneness of motive is turned into friendship. While diversity of motive cause enemity. Royal relationships also depend uypon one or theother purpose. But such relatins ar mainly for the welfare of the state.</div>
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<b>A friend, even if he be the enemy’s son , should be protected. </b></div>
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This sutura gives example about the purpose of relationship. A son of enemy who wants to uproot his own father, should be treated as friend and shold be protected. This may be called opportunism but is and should be necessary part of polity and statesmanship. Moreover, if a father is not aan upright man to have friendship with his sone can be a meritorious peson. So it is better to protecdt him.</div>
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<b>Till the enemy’s weakness is known , he should be kept on friendly terms. </b></div>
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Everybody has same or the other weakness. This eis also a a general tendency to conceal theee weaknesses. For people may not harm for these, but they will surely ridicule or make fun of. Friendship, of course feigned should be retained with enemy till his weakness is known. Let him remain elated.</div>
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<b>An enemy should be struck at his weak point. </b></div>
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Once the weak point of enemy is known, he should be reined by striking on that. Chanakya is offering here a fool proof method of devastation of enemy. T here is not place of showing mercy on him.</div>
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<b>One’s weakness should not ever be revealed.</b></div>
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Everynbody tries not to reveal his weaknesses, so that he may not be ridiculed. Specially before the enemy. One’s weakpoits shold not be revealed. Becaues ohe canstrike on those to ruin us. So one shold remain strong before the enemy.</div>
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<b>Enemies strike at weak points. </b></div>
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It is narual for enemy to attack on the weaker side of the adversary.</div>
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<b>Even a captured enemy is not to be trusted.</b></div>
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A ruler wishing to win shold not trust a cpterued enemy even if he may be extending had to be friend. Because deep rooted enemity, however, concealed, will ruerely come to light.</div>
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<b>wrongful doings of One's people should be stopped. </b></div>
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Svanaja includes in itself the whole subject, officials and ministers. If there is something wrong in the conduct of these people, it would be damaging the state. An administrator should strictly deal with it.</div>
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<b>The disgrace of one’s people brings sorrow to the Nobel minded.</b></div>
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The demerits of our own people bringh infamiy. Their disgrace is our own disgrace. That is why infamy os such people relly hurts . It is desifrable that the ruler or the administrator may work in a way that such disgraceful conduct may not occur.</div>
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<b>Defect in one’s limb ruins a man. </b></div>
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If one limb of the body is defected or inflicted with, disease, the whole feels tha pai. Some way if any department, minister or official of the state is faulty, the whole country is effected. An administrator should try hard to curb it.</div>
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<b>Good behavior wins even an enemy. </b></div>
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If people of one’’s own side have good conduct, it adds power to oneself. The misconduct on the contrary render one powerless. The enemy taks advantage of it. A skilled statesman never allows enemy to win over.</div>
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<b>The low minded are fond of deception the nature of low-minded people never changes.</b></div>
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No amount of advice change his attitude. He does not listed to good advice. Rather he gets angry.</div>
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<b>A low-minded person should not be given good advice.</b></div>
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Nikrti means deceptive behavior, the nature of a low minded person is fraudulent. They always like to ridicule god person. Breach of trust is natural <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt;">for a wicked. That is why this <b>Chanakya quote</b> enjoys indirectly to save oneself from them.</span></div>
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<b>No one should ever be disrespected. </b></div>
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This 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.</div>
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<b>One who is to be pardoned should not be harassed. </b></div>
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To pardon unworthy and to not pardon the worthy shows thoughtlessness. To pardon the worthy shows thoughtlessness. To pardon is humanitarian quality. But as far as the royal duty is concerned the ruler has to exert his judiciary powers in deciding who is to be punished and who is to be pardoned chanakya relates that a criminal insignificant offence should always be forgiveness.</div>
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<b>Considersing the forebearance of a person, Do not harass him. </b></div>
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A tolerant person should not be harrased. The subject or the ruled ones generally is loyal to the ruler. The people tak to revolt when they are helpless. The duty of the ruler is that his humble people mey not tak to revolt being suppressed by his bad polity. Considering the forbearance of the subject, do not ill behave with them so that they may feel oppressed.</div>
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<b> The foolish wish to speak out what was spoken in secret by the master.</b></div>
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<b>Love is indicated by deeds (and not by words) </b></div>
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Love 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</div>
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<b>Fate being unfavorable</b>( or without god’s grace, even an easy task becomes difficult to accomplish)</div>
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Easiest tasks become difficult to accomplish if the destiny is unfavorable. But chanakya does not consider any task impossible. Extra handwork and diligence make possible a difficult task even if fate may be unfavorable for a while.</div>
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( before starting a task) a wise man should think of ( the interest of) place and time.Indian Political Pundit Chanakya stresses again and again that wise man should examine place and time before starting a new task.</div>
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<b>Prosperity last long for one who acts after proper consideration. </b> </div>
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A person or a ruler who executes his plans (of public welfare) after due consideration, the prosperity stands with him for a longer period.</div>
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<b>All types of riches should be amassed by all means. </b></div>
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For the protection of state and welfare of the people, a ruler shold collect all types of wealth. By suing devices of sama, dama , danda, bheda , he shold increase income of the state, strong administration helps in collecting different type of taxes fro exchequer.</div>
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A man or a ruler should always take up a task after thoroughly considering its consequences. Otherwise fate also cannot protect his wealth.</div>
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<b>Examination ( of a thing) should be done with reference to what is know and wha is to be inferred.<br />
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By one’s own experience( or knowledge) and by one’s logical power, the consequence of a particular task, should be examined. By doing this there remains no chance of failure.</div>
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<b>Knower of the means makes impossible tasks also possible.</b></div>
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The ruler should employ person in tasks according to their abilities because Knowers ( or the means ) and efficient employees make impossible tasks also possible.<br />
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<b>Task performed by an unintelligent person should not be rated high. </b></div>
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Sometimes 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.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055341725673469017.post-53793951814726648052010-12-12T08:20:00.003+05:302022-11-04T10:17:44.817+05:30Top 5 Chanakya Quotes on Leadership, Work and importance of time<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-size: 18.6667px; text-align: justify;">Chanakya or kautilya was an Indian teacher , a famous economist , writer of arthshastra and chief political adviser of Mauryan Emperor of India - Chandragupta. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-size: 18.6667px; text-align: justify;">Let us take a look on some of the best thoughts and quotes delivered by the great<b> <a href="https://www.indianyouth.net/forum/threads/chanakya-quotes.3974/" target="_blank">Chanakya</a></b> on Leadership time and team work:</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b><br /></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b>A work which may result in misfortune should not be started.</b><br />
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Before commencing a task, its results are to be ascertained. If results do not seem beneficial for all, such tasks should not be started.<br />
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<b>One who knows the ( opportune) time accomplishes the task.</b><br />
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Every task has its own time. Just as a seed sown at (particular) time is sprouted, in the same way a task started at right time always gets accomplished.<br />
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<b>Due to lapse of time, time itself consumes the fruit( or action) </b><br />
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If a task is not finished in time, its fruit is consumed by time itself carelessness, delay or postponement destroys the result of actions. So a person specially tr ruler should not delay in executing tasks of public welfare. <br />
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<b>Do not delay even for a moment in executing the Delay even for moment causes loss of task.</b> <br />
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A man specially the administrator should not waste time. A task done at the right time brings good result. So a person ( o ruler) should try to finish the job in time and not delay it even by one minute. <br />
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<b>One should commence a work after fully understanding the place and the consequences. </b><br />
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Before taking up a task, the one should think of the circumstances of place and also take note of the consequences. There are some tasks which performed at one place can be beneficial while at another place they can be futile. So it is necessary to ascertain such aspects.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055341725673469017.post-34965079787181570332010-12-12T08:13:00.000+05:302014-11-15T04:42:52.168+05:30Chanakya Quote for Fault Finders or Cribbers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Flawless jobs are rare.<br />
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A task done with selfish motive cannot be called flawless. A task free from self-interest is nobly pure. But such tasks are rarer. Generally people work for selfish motives. Only Actions done by politicians for public welfare are flawless.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055341725673469017.post-90915531550092933542010-12-03T04:14:00.001+05:302022-11-04T10:25:26.589+05:30Best Chankya Quotes on Importance of Task Completion<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b>First decide and then commence the tasks in Politics</b><br />
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Before commencing a task one should thoroughly think all aspects of ti. Is it essential to do, what will be the result of it, how it will be executed and which device will be used? Such questions are to be pondered upon? Otherwise there will be always repentance. <br />
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<b>once a task is commenced there should not be waste of time.</b><br />
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Once a tasks is started there should not be reluctance of relinquishment. Doing slowly or derogatorily is also not desirable. <br />
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<b>The fickle minded one cannot accomplish a task . </b><br />
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A fickle-minded person is not committed to one task. He starts one, leaves it in between and takes up another. With such attitude accomplishment of tasks is not possible. <br />
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<b>I available resources are despised, tasks a goes away.</b><br />
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Start doing with whatever means yo possess. To run after the things ( or means) which are not available, is foolishness.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055341725673469017.post-90872974149765606722010-12-03T04:06:00.000+05:302012-11-17T07:33:14.045+05:30Chanakya quotes about Importance of Money ,wealth and Hardwork<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>When There is wealth a little effort accomplishes the task. </b></div>
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If the treasury is full of wealth, the plans for social benefit can be executed easily. Mere handwork does not bear fruit or we can say a person without means is unable to accomplish his tasks. Efforts and wealth both are needed for attaining objects of life. </div>
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<b>A task in which a suitable device is used is not difficult to achieve. </b></div>
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However, difficult may be the tasks, proper effort endowed with suitable device can always accomplish it. A ruler should be use seven devices (like Sama, Dama Danda Bheda, Upeksha and indrajal) to accomplish a tasks as the case may be. In personality also one has to first ascertain about the means of accomplishment and then start doing it. </div>
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<b>Without an expedient , a task even if attempted, fails.</b></div>
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If one attempts a task without ascertaining the proper expedient, one may fail. Proper contrivance is necessary to succeed in venture.</div>
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<b>Expedient is the aid to those who seek success in undertakings. </b></div>
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For success in undertakings, contrivance is very important. Also the pros and cons of the same should be well ascertained. Thus expedient is the only if for those who strive for success in their tasks.</div>
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<b>A task attains its objective through human effort.</b></div>
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When a person determines to perform a task, it becomes his objective. Then he puts best of efforts to accomplish it. While performing, a truly active person does not care for its fruit (failure or success), He goes on doing hard-work. It is an accepted truth that hard work always pay. </div>
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<b>Fortune follows human-effort.</b></div>
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Luck follows human effort. One just sitting for things to happen does not obtain anything. It is only the laborious and diligent who gets success. Man’s efforts should be related to present only He should not depend upon past or destiny </div>
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<b>One who is not calm and collected cannot earn one’s livelihood</b> (or accomplish one’s tasks). </div>
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One dependent upon destiny hardly gets means to lead life. A lazy and unbalanced person’s life becomes futile.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055341725673469017.post-29444826708988008492010-12-01T12:53:00.000+05:302017-06-24T23:50:57.628+05:30Top 7 Quotes by Chanakya about Wealth , Effort and Fortune<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b> When There is wealth a little effort accomplishes the task.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">According to <a href="http://chanakyaniti-quotes.blogspot.in/" target="_blank">Chanakya </a>If the treasury is full of wealth, the plans for social benefit can be executed easily. Mere hard work does not bear fruit or we can say a person without means is unable to accomplish his tasks. Efforts and wealth both are needed for attaining objects of life. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">However, difficult may be the tasks, proper effort endowed with suitable device can always accomplish it. A ruler shold be use seven devices (like Sama, Dama Danda Bheda, Upeksha and indrajal) to accomplish a tasks as the case may be. In personal life also one has to first ascertain about the means of accomplishment and then start doing it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Without an expedient , a task even if attempted, fails.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If one attempts a task without ascertaining the proper expedient, one may fail. Proper contrivance is necessary to succeed in venture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Expedient is the aid to those who seek success in undertakings. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">For success in undertakings, contrivance is very important. Also the pros and cons of the same should be well ascertained. Thus expedient is the only if for those who strive for success in their tasks.</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055341725673469017.post-4079137472354644992010-12-01T12:46:00.001+05:302022-11-04T10:27:09.396+05:30Top Chanakya Quotes on Acquisition of wealth<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Wealth is acquired by means of livelihood. When the king /politician and the subject both are efficient and active, Then only prosperity follows. Moreover, the means of acquiring money should not be impeded by the untoward. The ruler’s duty is to check them. <br />
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<b>Righteousness and pleasures have their root in wealth.</b><br />
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Dharma does not refer to duty only. The actions of spiritual uplift do also come under the category of Dharma. In the same way Kama does not mean merely sexual desire. It includes in itself many other desires and wants. Dharma (righteousness) and Kama (Pleasure) both depend on supply of money. No ritual can be performed without money. No desire can be fulfilled without money. The ruler and the ruled are expected to attain all these objects of life. <br />
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It is the money by which individual and social tasks are accomplished. Even the royal power is protected by goddess wealth.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055341725673469017.post-63002087917972294912010-12-01T12:43:00.001+05:302022-11-04T10:27:50.592+05:30Top 3 Quotes by Chanakya for Kings & Rulers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">Even a weak king should not be insulted </span></i></b><br /><br /><br />The politician or King represents the country. In his insult lies the insult of the country. So political Pundit Chanakya pronounces the ruler / Politician should never be despised.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b>Even ( a spark of) fire is not weak.</b></i></span><br /><br />Even a small spark of fire can burn the whole forest. Fire should never be treated as weak. A ordinary ruler also becomes strong with the co-operation of his subject. So king (or fire) should never be insulted or neglected.<br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b>Worth of akin is known by his adoption of polity ( or proper use of scepter).</b></i></span><br /><br /><br />A King or politician’s efficiency is judged by the proper use of scepter. The wicked are subdued by use of scepter, otherwise the public life is disturbed. The disturbed public ( or subject) is not happy. This proclaims inefficiency of the king( or the ruler).</div>
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Fear of punishment guards the society from the criminals. The curbing, assaulting, fine penalty and sending to jail are the forms of punishmet. If they are properly meted to the criminals, they stop commiting crimes. Then the state is safe and its Dharma, Artha and Kama is protected.</div>
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<b>Self protection depends on the practice of political science (specially the Dandniiti).</b> </div>
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Self protection of the ruler is also dependent upon proper administration of justice. The ruler is the first citizen of the state in other words we can say that the ruler is one of the member of the state </div>
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If the ruler is saved or protected then only the state will be saved or protected. The ruler is the representative of the hops and powers of the whole state. The attack on the ruler is considered to be the attack on the state. So the king should protect himself from the criminals and enemies. </div>
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<b>Advancement and decay are dependent on oneself.</b> </div>
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Everybody is responsible for hid advancement or decay. If the ruler and the ruled both are efficient the country’s advancement is sure. If they are nt efficient and addicted to vices, both (king and the subject) are decayed. </div>
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The king has the power and right to punish. This power and right is to exerted after due Contemptation. The judge should pronounce punishment after through investigations only & should be impartial.</div>
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A king (or the ruler who cannot control his sense organs and mind, becomes addicted to sensual objects, pleasures and vices.Even one with a fourfold army is destroyed if Politician or Ruler is a slave of the senses.His thinking faculty and peace get destroyed. A slave of the senses may have a large army but is unable to protect his kingdom and AAM JANTA.</div>
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<b>One addicted to gambling does not accomplish anything.</b></div>
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A gambler is good for nothing. Even a common man addicted gambling cannot look after his family or society, so what to say of a ruler who addicts to gambling. With an addicted ruler the state reaches to political crisis and financial crises. </div>
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A ruler or Politician addicted to hunting loses his dharma ( righteousness) and wealth.</b></div>
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The duty of a ruler , King or Politician is to safeguard the state and the people. If he is engrossed in hunting, he forgets everything. Moreover, hunting is a very very expensive vice. If money form the treasury of the kingdom is spent in such vices, it is really a loss of public money.</div>
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<b>A drunkard ( Politician , Ruler or King ) cannot accomplish any task. </b></div>
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A person addicted to drinking cannot perform his duty. A ruler who is drunkard, his minister and other employees become careless. Thus the decline of state is inevitable.</div>
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<b>The lust – Ridden ( Politician ) cannnot perform his task )</b></div>
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Lustful ruler is so much engrossed in several relationships that he forgets his duties towards people of the kingdom. A a slave to lust he cannot save himself what to say of guarding the state. </div>
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<b>Sting of words is stronger than the burning of fire. </b></div>
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This <b><a href="https://chanakya-quotes.blogspot.com/">CHANAKYA</a> </b>political<b> </b>teaching applies to king as well as to each and everyone ( or the subject) . Harsh words are stronger than the burning of fire. Only an angry person speaks such harsh words. It is also a kind of vice. The wound caused by fire is healed up but injury caused by ill words cause disputes and enmity. So it should be avoided. </div>
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<b>By excessively cruel punishment, The Ruler is hated by all.</b></div>
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The ruler has aright to punish. But this punishment should be in accordance with the offense. Also punishment should be able to amend the behavior of the punished. If punishment is cruel then the giver of the punishment is hated by all. Actually excessively cruel punishment originates form the negative feeling of anger which destroy justice.</div>
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<b>Prosperity abandons one who is satisfied with wealth.</b></div>
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Satisfied with the present treasure, a king of the ruler stops doing efforts for gaining more money.Such a ruler is abandoned by goldess of feature.For the development of the state money is drawn form the treasury. If there is no further income, the balance in the treasury keels on declining . An efficient enthusiastic performer always plans things which may add to the income of the state.</div>
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<b>An enemy should be won over by the use of political science.</b></div>
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An enemy can be subdued by political skill. If a ruler does not posses power to punish traitors, he is attacked by them. The internal enemies should be initially curbed by punishment. Also administration of justice should not be weak to allow external elements to plot against.</div>
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<b>The people are protected through the people usage of political science.</b></div>
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Protection of the people is the primary duty of the ruler or Politician. It depends upon the proper usage of the policy of punishment. The ideal form of punishment policy is that in which the culprit gets punishment and not the innocent. Curbing of the wicked and the enemy is based on proper administration of laws of justice.</div>
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<i>Collection of Chankya quotes on Treaties , Enemy and Refuge in Politics
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>case of many enemies, treaty should be entered into with one only. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If there are more than one enemy, a treaty should be formed with one only. Treaty with all the enemies may be destructive for the welfare of the state.</span><br />
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<i>one’s security should be guarded from the anger of enemy.</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A state should be protected from internal and external enemies because both of them weaken the kingdom by arson and violence Etc.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The weak one should seek refuge in the strong.</b></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A ruler deficient in military power, fortification and treasury should take refuge in one endowed with these. Then only he can be strong enough.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Refuge in the weak results in sorrow. </b></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Alliance with weak causes loss. What is the use of forming relations with a weak ruler who cannot handle his own problems? </span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>A ruler should be approached like fire (lest he may not cause harm). </b></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Just as one is careful while warming oneself with fire (so that it may not burn) in the same way one must be cautious while taking refuge in a ruler. One’s peace and one’s freedom are to be properly secured.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">To commit treason is prohibited. To act against the state or the ruler is an offense. Also the laws and institutions of the state are not to be transgressed.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>One should not wear provocative clothes.</b></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The dress expresses the personality of a person.one must wear clothes according to the occasion accepted by norms of civil society . Excessive ostentation should be avoided</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>One should not imitate the ways of king (or of gods) The intoxication of wealth ( or power) is dreadful.</b></span></i> <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">One should carefully avoid it. A common person should not follow the doings of a king nor he shold use the insignia of royalty in intoxication of wealth. One should n now way compete with royalty. </span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Cause a rift between two countries/Person who are jealous ( of oneself) .</b></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A clever politician should sow dissensions in tow rivals. Who are jealous of him. Their aspirations thus should be curbed. </span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Politician or Ruler addicted to vices cannot accomplish tasks. </b></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">One addicted to vices cannot successfully finish a tasks. His time and energy is exhausted in such vices. Most of the vices originate from desire of sensual enjoyments and anger. Hunting, gambling drinking are vices born out of sensual desire while every, fault finding originate from anger. All these vices tend to low self-confidence together with the loss of time and energy. Consequently, the plans and tasks (of the state) remain unaccomplished.</span></div>
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There is always a cause for friendship and enmity. If a rulers extends hands for friendship, a tactful ruler should try to ascertain it. Then only he should reject or accept the friendship.<br />
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<b>The one who is facing defeat should form alliance.</b><br />
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A weak king’s policy should be to accept alliance with a strong ruler for a while. Thus avoiding war with a strong ruler he can increase his political power. <br />
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<b>one should not accept treaty from a weak enemy.</b><br />
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To accept a compact or treaty from a weak enemy is equal to political murder. A clever politician should curb his enemy with his power.<br />
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<b>Power is the only cause of an alliance.</b><br />
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A true treaty is between two equally powerful rulers. The power of rulers depend upon their treasury and military forces.<br />
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<b>Unheated metal does not coalesce with metal.</b><br />
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Just as unheated mental cannot be combined with heated metal, a true treaty is not possible between weak and strong rulers. A small but powerful state can execute treaty with a strong state for indulging in battle is not beneficial for that ruler. <br />
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<b>The strong ruler should attack on the weak (Enemy) </b><br />
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A battle should be fought with a weak enemy . Conquering the weak enemy, a clever politician should grow in power. It is always better to avoid fighting with a strong enemy. <br />
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Always avoid fighting with those who are superior in power and valour. Otherwise defeat is must. <br />
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<b>Fighting with a stronger enemy is like that of infantry with the elephant force. </b><br />
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This Chanakya politics Teaching enjoins a precaution that fighting of a weak with a strong is like that of infantry with the elephant force. A pedestrian will be crushed by an elephant. This does not mean retreat. It is an inspiration to develop power so that the victory is confirmed.<br />
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An unbaked vessel breaks down on colliding with another unbaked vessel. (equals should not fight). <br />
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Just as two unbaked vessels are destroyed after collision in the same way two equally powerful states get destroyed after the battle. <br />
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<b>Enemies efforts should be watched.</b><br />
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There should be constant vigilance upon the activities of the enemy. Strong spy-system can be effective in this matter.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055341725673469017.post-57818882554238841642010-11-27T00:18:00.000+05:302014-05-13T01:13:24.693+05:30Chanakya quotes on Fundamental Duties of a Politician or Ruler<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Getting what has not been got, guarding it, developing it and then distributing it, these four constitute state policy.<br />
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There are four fundamental duties of a ruler to get the benefits which are unavailable. These four duties are to obtain what he does not have, to preserve, and protect what he has obtained, to increase the amount of wealth he has and to invest it for the benefit of his people. <br />
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<b>politics is a tool of state policy.</b><br />
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The practice of political principles is in accordance with a administrative policy. The proper administration in the society or in the kingdom is the duty of the ruler or the administrator. For this he should be adopt in civil and military administration. The financial policy should also be for the welfare of the people. If the law-order situation is pitiable, the ruler fails in his duty.<br />
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<b>Internal administration and foreign relations are dependent on state policy.</b><br />
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The management of the state is two fold. The first one is policy of internal administration by which the internal projects and problems are being handled. The second one is foreign policy by which the relations with the other nations are being maintained. Without a good foreign policy administration cannot flourish. A strong foreign policy ensures a strong nation.<br />
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<b>Internal administration relates to one’s own country</b><br />
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Tantra (i.e. internal administration) is related with the national policy. This manages to establish law in the country and also works for the internal welfare of the state. If the administrator performs his duty perfectly the state remains organize and becomes prosperous other wise state goes to doom.<br />
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<b>Foreign policy is deployment of (four fold) policy towards (neighboring ) states.</b><br />
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<b>Avapa</b> is the foreign policy which is mainly concerned with the neighboring states. Foreign policy includes donstant vigil on the enemy-country and also developing friendly relations and business with the other countries. If the neighboring state help the enemy they should be immediately checked by four fold policy consisting of Saam ( conciliation) Daam( bribery), Danda ( punishment) Bheda (sowing dissensions) . the success of foreign policy is in as much as the friendly circle does not come under the sway of the enemy.<br />
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<b>Neighboring states are sources of treaties and hostilities.</b><br />
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Treaties and wars are common amongst Neighboring states but a ruler must know the right time to declare war or to execute treaty. <br />
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The science of polity includes policies of punishment, finance and warfare. An <br />
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<b>A ruler with contiguous territory is rival.</b><br />
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Rivalry is natural between two adjoining territories. Mutual disputes and dissension or estrangement develop amongst contiguous states.A ruler and his ministers should be cautions enough to keep away from them.<br />
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<b>Rivals (of a ruler) become friend (of each other).</b><br />
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When a country has more than one rival, the friendship develops (among those rivals) to fulfill their selfish ends.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Lazy ruler does not make effort to attain what has not been obtained</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A lazy person , ruler or Political leader cannot achieve any wanted thing because of his inaction. He is like a parasite who depends on others for his sustenance. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If, by chance a lazy person gets thing to call his own, he cannot ensure its safety.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A ruler, like any other person, should try to make his health grow. Such a ruler who is lazy, is doomed to failure because in order to run the state, money is required . And he can neither protect the state not wealth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The subordinates of a lazy ruler also become lazy and negligent. There is no one to make them work.It is a crime, there fore , for a ruler to be lazy.</span></div>
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<b> Decision should be taken on the unanimous opinion of three (counselors).</b><br />
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While discussion a project, if consensus emerges among the ruler, the minister and, the adviser, the success of the project is ensured.<br />
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<b>Ministers should be the ones who know the true implications of what ought to be done and what ought not be done.</b><br />
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Only a person of discrimination should be appointed minister. A prudent thinker and astute analyst who can discriminate between different courses of actions and release their pros and cons and one who understands the king, should be appointed minister.<br />
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On being heard by six ears (i.e.) third person other than the king and the minister), secrecy of the counsel is broken.</b><br />
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The final decision should be taken by the ruler and the , minister concerned. Even the adviser should have no io inkling of it. If any third person (fifth and sixth) ears is involved the information is bound to be leaked.<br />
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<b>According to Chanakya A friend is that who is affectionate in difficult period.</b><br />
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One who is constant in his affections, is a true friend. One who deserts his friend at the time of distress, is a selfish opportunist, not a friend.<br />
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<b>A congregation of above mentioned friends develops the strength of a king.</b><br />
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A true friend is one who is loyal and constant in his affection both in good as well as bad days. The ruler should have as many true friends around him as possible. They will make the king stronger.<br />
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<b>A strong person (a king) tries to get what has not been obtained.</b><br />
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A ruler, like any other, has to be strong enough to bring along benefits his people.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055341725673469017.post-39690206485363700012010-11-26T23:59:00.000+05:302014-11-15T04:52:33.930+05:30Chanakya Quotes on Importance of Secrecy and Counsellor<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b> The secrecy of counsel is of supreme importance.</b></div>
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Chanakya enunciated the principle of ministerial secrecy 2300 years ago which has been adopted by the governments all over the world now. In order to make the state strong and secure, it is vital that all governments’ plans relating to defense and foreign affairs be kept secret.</div>
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<b>When a problem does not seem to have a solution, it is the counsel that acts as a beacon. </b></div>
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On a dark night, nothing is visible. But a small lamp shows the way. Similarly when no solution to a problem is in sight consultation with and advice of is ministers can show the right path to the ruler.</div>
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During consultations with his ministers, the ruler should maintain a cordial and friendly atmosphere. He should not degrade or humiliate them. He should treat them with respect and listen to them with an open mind. </div>
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It is only through consultation with his ministers and advisers that the ruler comes to know the weaknesses of his enemies and exploit them to his advantage.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b> Defection to the enemy takes place due to Negligence.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">All ministerial discussion, official proceeding (for Records) should be guarded. Even the slightest Negligence in handling the information will cause its leakage to the ever alert enemy with disastrous Consequences.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The enemy is ever ready to pounce upon any piece of information . All means of exit, human as well material, should therefore be firmly blocked to prevent even the slightest chance of escape of any secret.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Prosperity of the state grows with increase in the amount of consultations among the king and his ministers. Prosperity of the state can be ensured by carefully guarding the official consultations and proceedings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Whatever consultations take place between the king and his ministers, they should be kept secret. This secrecy will prevent any leak to the enemy who, if he has access of the plans, will thwart the plans. Perfect secrecy, therefore should be maintained.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b>One whose counsel is disclosed , destroys his Plans.</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Official secrets should be carefully guarded. The persons who have access to them, should be reliable, honest, and loyal. Extreme care should be taken in the selection of such person and their work and conduct should be kept under careful observation.</span></div>
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Catch the legendary epic history of India's pioneer in economics and
political science. Here we present one of the great super heroes of
Indian history "Chanakya" in the form of 47 Episodes series. Have a look
of history of Magadh and Taxila in the series of Chanakya. Videos Uploaded at youtube by <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEKWXRsfUHkan-D_ljU8Asw">Rajshri</a>.</div>
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Chanakya is a 47-part epic Indian television historical drama
written and directed by Dr. Chandraprakash Dwivedi that was originally
telecast on DD National from 8 September 1991 to 9 August 1992. Produced by Prakash Dwivedi, the series is a fictionalized account of the life and times of 4th century BCE Indian economist, strategist and Indian political theorist Chanakya
(also known as Vishnugupta) and is based on events occurring between
340 BCE and 321/20 BCE, starting with Chanakya's boyhood and culminating
in the coronation of Chandragupta Maurya. Chandraprakash Dwivedi played the title role of Chanakya.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The Chanakya TV series is divided into three major parts:</span></div>
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<li>The early life of Vishnugupta in the kingdom of Magadha
and the circumstances leading to his self-imposed exile, particularly
the persecution (and subsequent death) of his father at the hands of Dhanananda, King of Magadha.</li>
<li>The invasion of northwestern India by Alexander,
his death and the rebellion led by native Indian kingdoms under the
leadership of Chandragupta Maurya against Alexander's successors in
India. The Greek invaders are defeated.</li>
<li>The attack on and overthrow of the Nanda rule in Magadha and the crowning of Chandragupta as the King of Magadha.</li>
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Within this framework, Dwivedi portrays the politics and backstabbing
that governed relations between kings and officials of that time. He
covers the workings of the early Indian republics and the way of life of
ordinary Indians.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://chanakya-quotes.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><i>Chanakya</i></a></span> Tv serial is critically acclaimed and has been hailed as a
"milestone on Indian television." At the same time, it has been the
subject of political controversy in India. It has been televised in many
countries around the world and has won 5 Uptron Awards.The Chanakya TV series was widely praised for its authenticity, casting and grandeur. source - <a href="http://wikipedia./">Wikipedia.</a></div>
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Special Thanks to Rajshri Youtube channel for Uploading All Episodes of Chanakya TV series.</div>
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