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Discontent leads to sorrow, greed disturbs the senses, and ultimately wisdom is lost—just like learning fades without repetition.
Those who associate with sinners without renouncing them are punished like the wicked themselves—just as the dry wood burns the moist by association.
A prideful fool clinging to arrogance is defeated even by an equal—like a raw pot that breaks upon slight contact, unable to bear any pressure.
One should speak clearly and without confusion, like sugarcane juice. But one who speaks in agitation wounds others with the arrows of speech.
A true friend is revealed in three things: benefiting you during misfortune, keeping your secrets, and rescuing you from danger.
How can one who lacks wealth be a support? How can the intolerant be a leader? How can one ignorant of the Self be wise? How can the discontented ever...
A man who contributes nothing of worth is merely born with a name, like a word tossed around by chance. Birth without merit is meaningless.
A girl before menstruation is called Gaurī, once she begins it she is Rohiṇī. Without developed signs she remains unmanifested—flat-chested and bare. ...
Though the golden deer was an impossibility, Rāma was tempted by it. Minds often grow clouded in the face of impending disaster.
Praising someone for impossible virtues causes shame to the listener. Just as one who claims the Karnikāra flower is fragrant becomes laughable—it has...
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