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61 " 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. "
― Rajen Jani , Old Chanakya Strategy: Aphorisms
62 " A poisonless snake should also greatly extend his hood; poison or no poison, the display of the enlarged hood itself is fearsome. "
63 " Where fools are not worshipped, where grain is amply stored, where there is no quarrel between husband and wife, there, Śrī, the goddess of wealth, herself comes on her own. "
64 " 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. "
65 " In poverty is patience seated, in a bad garment is appearing good seated, in bad food is heating seated, in ugliness is good manners seated. "
66 " 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. "
67 " Life-span, work, wealth, knowledge, and time of death, these five are formed in the womb alongwith the body. "
68 " One without wealth is not poor, wealthy he is decidedly; but one who is without the jewel of knowledge, is poor in all respects. "
69 " Sorrow increases disease, rice in sweetened milk increases body, ghee increases sperm, meat piling upon meat increases. "
70 " If pleasure is desired then study has to be discarded, if study is desired then pleasure has to be discarded; how can the one enjoying pleasures undertake study? Where is the enjoyment of pleasures for the one who studies? "
71 " Generosity, sweet speech, patience, and knowledge of what is appropriate, cannot be gained by practice; these four are inborn qualities. "
72 " One who forsakes his own people and joins another group of people, himself causes his own destruction; like a king who destroys himself by forsaking his kingly duty to follow another duty. "
73 " Mixing with saints is hindered due to sons, friends, and relatives; but those who mix with them gain righteousness, and in a good manner are able to form their families. "
74 " A goad controls an elephant’s vast body, is the goad as vast as the elephant? A lamp when lighted banishes darkness, is the lamp as vast as the darkness? Struck by a thunderbolt a mountain is split apart, is the thunderbolt as vast as the mountain? No, in brilliance is might seated, what is there in mere vastness? "
75 " Sight, attention, and touch, are used by fish, tortoises, and birds, to always bring up their young ones; likewise is the association of virtuous persons. "
76 " Oil on water, a secret shared with an evil person, a donation given to a worthy recipient, and scriptures in the possession of an aware person; these on their own gain expansion, due to their inherent strengths. "
77 " When the body is healthy and death is far, one should work for the benefit of the soul, for at life’s end, what can be done? "
78 " Although far, yet not far is the one who in the mind resides; but one who is not in the heart, although near, yet is far "
79 " Like Kamadhenu is knowledge; in crisis it is fruitful; in journeys like a mother it offers good advice; knowledge is hidden treasure, remember. "
80 " 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. "