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This is the time to nourish the champaka tree with water from the gardener’s pot. If grown only through storm and heat, your care may come too late.
Blown by garden winds, mango and champaka pollen gently touches the eyes of travelers—seen, but not felt, like beauty that moves without contact.
When mango buds haven’t yet bloomed, offer a waterful greeting to the weary traveling women—a symbolic gesture of compassion in absence of floral welc...
O King, without effort, dreams do not succeed. Only the timid hide behind fate, claiming “what’s destined will happen.”
Amid pleasures of gardens and ritual feasts, even extreme austerities and renunciation are pursued in Kāśī, the city of liberation—what other place co...
A cuckoo in spring sings expecting mango blossoms, but listeners cannot tell apart its cry from other birdcalls—likewise, intentions are often misunde...
When effort fails, dullness rises quickly, even friends grow distant. A life once admired becomes painful when robbed of purpose.
Effort can win over even enemies; laziness is poison even in friends. True knowledge may appear bitter, but it is like nectar in the long run.
One endowed with these six—effort, courage, wisdom, strength, daring, and zeal—even the gods cannot obstruct their success.
Noble qualities include diligence, intellect, patience, truth, renunciation, devotion, firmness, dignity, self-restraint, tolerance, modesty, and bold...
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