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When a chaste woman full of affection accepts a warrior joyfully, even the righteous union is fruitful—if born from valor and virtue.
Even good kings, when they favor only their kinsmen and not the deserving, become suspicious and dishonored.
Like autumn that humbles rivers and proud beings, the wise naturally bend with grace, enhancing their beauty through modesty.
Though worldly pleasures and women bring pain and impermanence, people still do not take interest in higher truths or austerities.
Wise people recognize both danger and opportunity from the outset and demonstrate practical success using policy and strategy.
The Rāmāyaṇa’s story tells how great sages, monkeys, and gods tried and retook Lanka—an ocean of deeds compared to the ocean itself.
Like a bird lost in the vast sky, sometimes returning to a tree of virtue, so too the mind wanders yet seeks goodness.
Your fame, like a divine echo, wanders through lofty peaks and gorges but never falls—such is the glory of the great.
In the boundless ocean of worldly existence, what refuge is there but the long boat of the Guru's feet?
In the infinite world of poetry, the poet is the creator—what he imagines, the universe begins to reflect.
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