Righteousness, wealth, grains, words of a Guru, and medicines, should be well-preserved, otherwise you cannot survive.

Discard evil company, cultivate good people’s association; undertake virtue day and night, remember the certainty of uncertainity.

One who gives the knowledge of even a single letter, is a Guru; the student is one who fully understands it; in this world there is no substance that the student can give to repay his debt to his Guru.

Wicked people and thorns, in two ways can be counteracted; either with the shoe smash their faces, or from afar discard them.

One who wears dirty clothes, one who has dirty teeth, one who eats too much, one who speaks cruelly, one who sleeps after sunrise or before sunset, is discarded by Shree, the goddess of wealth, although he may be the discus-bearer, the god Vishnu himself.

When one’s wealth is lost, his friends, his wife, his servants, and his relations, all forsake him; and when wealth is regained, then all those who had forsaken him, come back; therefore, in this world, wealth is the only true friend and relative.

Sinfully acquired money stays for ten years; in the eleventh year, it is completely destroyed along with the principal amount.

An unsuitable object in the hands of a capable person becomes suitable, while a suitable object in the hands of an incapable person becomes unsuitable.

A jewel rolls on the feet, a glass on the head is kept, but at buying-selling time, a glass is a glass, and a jewel is a jewel.