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“The teacher who imparts wisdom to the ignorant is a father. Besides, as I have issued from your body you are my mother too.”
those days, it was no uncommon thing for wise and learned brahmana ladies to speak out their mind with honourable frankness.
"It is by their own actions, good or bad, that men are happy or miserable. The virtues or vices of others will not affect us in the least."
no worthy man extols his own merits, and I shall say no more about myself.
The wounds inflicted by weapons may close in time; scalds may heal gradually; but wounds inflicted by words remain painful as long as one lives."
the earliest indication to the public, of a wise plan, should be its execution.
“A woman will not care for her husband after she has become a mother.
“There never was and never can be an antelope of gold! Yet, Rama went in vain pursuit of what seemed one; surely, when calamities are imminent, the judgment is first destroyed.”
Virtue guarded only by ignorance is very insecure as illustrated by the following story.
The knowledge, that is merely so much undigested information crammed into the mind, cannot instil virtue. It is just an outward show like our clothes and is no real part of us.
When the words of untruth came out of Yudhishthira’s mouth, the wheels of his chariot, which until then always stood and moved four inches above the ground and never touched it, at once came down and touched the earth.
MAN pursues madly the object of his desire until it is got. When it is in his possession, he is soon sated, but he becomes the slave of ever fresh longings and fresh griefs and finds no peace.
