678 Quotes About Aphorisms

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.

An evil person will not become a saint, even if he is taught in several different ways; a Neem tree will not become sweet, even if it is watered by milk and ghee from its very top to its very roots.

The inner filthiness of an evil person cannot be washed away, even by hundred baths at a pilgrimage; just like an earthen pot of wine cannot be made clean, even if in fire it is truly heated.

Until the qualities of another person are known, one always devalues that another person; just like the wife of a hunter, not knowing the quality of a pearl obtained from the head of an elephant, throws it away in favour of a Gunja seed.

One who always consumes silently his meals for a whole year, resides in the heavenly world for one thousand crore years.

Lust, anger, greed, delicacies, ornamentations, nosiness, excessive sleep, and excessive service; for a student, these eight are forbidden.

One who lives by eating roots from unploughed fields, and fruits that have fallen on the ground, who always resides in forests, who daily performs the worship of the departed ancestors, such a Brahmin is known as a Rishi.

Whatever accumulated wealth is in surplus of their needs, good people donate it for good causes; Karna, Bali, Vikramaditya, these kings are even remembered today due to their charity; the honey-bees store up honey, and then some honey-collector takes all the accumulated honey away; neither did the honey-bees themselves enjoy their stored up honey, nor did they give it in charity; all they do now is rub both their legs in regret.

Competent among own people, kind with other people, wickedly-clever always towards evil people, loving towards good people, arrogant with base people, guileless with learned people, courageous against enemies, forgiving towards elders, and cunning with women; in these arts, that man who is skilful, in him the regard of the people is established.