Truth is mother, knowledge is father, righteousness is brother, kindness is friend, peace is wife, forgiveness is son, these six are my relatives.

Non-everlasting is the body, wealth is also not permanent, always together stays death; therefore, righteous acts do accumulate.

To see one’s own mother in another man’s wife, to see useless pebbles in another man’s wealth, to see oneself in all beings of the world; one who sees thus, truly sees.

Knowledge is a friend in a journey, a wife is a friend in home, medicine is a friend in disease, and righteousness is a friend in death.

Courtesy from the sons of a king, good speech from a learned man, unrighteous behaviour from gamblers, and deceits from women, should be learnt.

One who spends recklessly, one who is an orphan, one who loves quarrels, and one who is eager for all kinds of women, such a man is swiftly destroyed.

Having no meal does not worry a learned person who has gained awareness, for righteousness alone is his worry; the food of every person is created at the time of the person’s birth.

In matters regarding the utilization of wealth and grains, in the accumulation of knowledge, and in eating a meal, the person who discards shyness, becomes happy.

A drop of water falling regularly fills up a pitcher; this is the objective of all knowledge, righteousness, and wealth.