678 Quotes About Aphorisms

A Brahmin is like a tree, whose roots are the evening prayers, whose branches are the Vedas, and whose righteous acts are the leaves; hence, the root should be carefully protected, for if the root is torn, then there will be no branches and no leaves.

In a single tree reside various coloured birds, who at dawn fly off in ten different directions; in this what is there to grieve?

The intelligent is strong, how can the unintelligent be strong? In the jungle, the lion in his arrogant madness was killed by the jackal.

What worry have I for my maintenance, if Hari Vishvambhara is the supporter of all? If this were not so, then for supporting the life of the baby, how would the mother’s breasts be filled with milk? Thinking this every moment, O lord of the Yadus, O husband of Lakshmi, only your lotus feet I serve always and spend my time as prearranged by fate.

Although Sanskrit language has a special intelligence of its own, yet I also yearn for other languages; like although nectar is the intoxication in heaven, yet gods desire the intoxicated lips of the heavenly ladies.

From grains ten times better is flour, from flour ten times better is milk, from milk eight times better is meat, from meat ten times better is ghee.

When there is water, swans come and stay, and when the water dries up, they leave and go away; man should not behave likewise, and should not repeatedly leave and repeatedly seek shelter.

Spending accumulated wealth is its protection; just as letting out water protects a pond.

When residents of heaven are born in this earth they have four marks: they give charity, they speak sweet words, they worship gods, and they give offerings to Brahmins.