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अवस्थया पुरुष: सम्मान्यते। One gets respect due to one’s position.
आर्यवृत्तमनुतिष्ठेत्। Always try to maintain your best behaviour.
Extremely imperative for me
कदापि मर्यादां नातिमेत्। Never transgress your limits.
नास्त्यर्ध पुरुष रत्नस्य। Man is such a gem which can not be evaluated.
न स्त्रीरत्नसमं रत्नम्। Nor there is anything as precious as a woman is.
अयशो भयं भयेषु। Ill-fame is the deadliest fear (for a man). [What hurts most a genuine man is infamy. This is the deadliest fear for such persons.]
Even a woman abhors an effeminate man.
The basic characters that a woman inherits should never be possessed by a man
A man desiring to get flowers never irrigates a dry plant.
Doing a job without any investment of money is tantamount to trying to squeeze out oil from sand. [That is futile.]
Never make great persons the butt of ridicule. [That is, always treat them with honour.]
परिचये दोषा न छाद्यन्ते। Mere introduction doesn’t reveal one’s flaws or deficiencies.
He who is himself impure, worries most about others impurity.
स्वभावो दुरतिक्रम:। One’s basic nature cannot be altered.
Nature and signature of a person can never be changed
कथानुरूपं प्रतिवचनम्। The counter-comment must conform to the basic remark.
कार्यानुरूप: प्रयत्न:। Efforts must measure according to the need of the job undertaken.
भर्तृशानुवर्तिनी भार्या। A wife must behave according to her husband’s desires.
पितृवशानुवर्ती पुत्र:। A son must always be obedient to his father.
अत्युपचार: शंकितव्य:। Observance of excessive formality engenders suspicion (about the observer’s true intentions).
A child punished by his mother weeps only before her.
Only a fool concentrates on finding faults in others and not in his own self.
The display of extra formality by the well-known person evokes a (genuine) suspicious. [Why must a well-known person show such excessive formality?]
गौर्दुष्करा श्वसहस्त्रादेकाकिनी श्रेयसी। An irritable or foul-tempered cow is better than having a thousand dogs (at one’s gate).
Today’s pigeon is better than having a peacock of tomorrow. [This is akin to the English proverb: one in hand is better than two in the luck.]
सर्व जयत्यक्रोध:। He who controls his anger totally wins over everyone.
Express your anger only after the wrong doer expresses his anger at being exposed. [Let the wrong-doer first come up with resentment (or anger) at being exposed, then you must show your anger. This way you’d not let him find any excuse to escape.]
