In this world there are only three jewels: water, food, and sweet speech; fools consider pieces of rocks as jewels.

From the tree of crimes committed by oneself, comes forth fruits in the body as poverty, sorrow, disease, bondage, and affliction.

Again wealth, again a friend, again a wife, again a kingdom; these all can be gained again, but a human body cannot be gained again and again.

Large numbers can unitedly overcome an enemy; the rainfall holding cloud by a large number of grass-blades is overcome.

Sorrow increases disease, rice in sweetened milk increases body, ghee increases sperm, meat piling upon meat increases.

Generosity, sweet speech, patience, and knowledge of what is appropriate, cannot be gained by practice; these four are inborn qualities.

One who forsakes his own people and joins another group of people, himself causes his own destruction; like a king who destroys himself by forsaking his kingly duty to follow another duty.

A goad controls an elephant’s vast body, is the goad as vast as the elephant? A lamp when lighted banishes darkness, is the lamp as vast as the darkness? Struck by a thunderbolt a mountain is split apart, is the thunderbolt as vast as the mountain? No, in brilliance is might seated, what is there in mere vastness?

One engrossed in affairs of the home cannot gain knowledge, a meat-eater shows no mercy, a greedy materialist has no truth, a deceiving woman has no purity.