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God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.

Chanakya

What good can the scriptures do to a man who has no sense of his own? Of what use is as mirror to a blind man?
CHANAKYA

Goodness Man Scripture Waste
A permanent relationship is dependent on particular purpose or wealth.
CHANAKYA

Dependent Purpose Relationship Wealth
Time perfects all living beings as well as kills them; it alone is awake when all others are asleep. Time is insurmountable.
CHANAKYA

Alone Kill Perfection Sleep Time
Water is the medicine for indigestion; it is invigorating when the food that is eaten is well digested; it is like nectar when drunk in the middle of a dinner; and it is like poison when taken at the end of a meal.
CHANAKYA

Change Eat Food Medicine Poison Water
He who wears unclean garments, has dirty teeth, is a glutton, speaks unkindly and sleeps after sunrise – although he may be the greatest personality – will lose the favour of Lakshmi.
CHANAKYA

Clothes Dirty God Greatness Kindness Lose Personality Rise Rude Sleep Sun Talk
A wise man should marry a virgin of a respectable family even if she is deformed. He should not marry one of a low-class family, through beauty. Marriage in a family of equal status is preferable.
CHANAKYA

Beautiful Choice Equality Family Man Marriage Respect Status Wisdom
Till the enemy’s weakness is known , he should be kept on friendly terms.
CHANAKYA

Enemy Friendship Himself Weakness
It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment’s grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one’s life.
CHANAKYA

Better Death Grace Grief Life Loss Moments Oneself Pain Respect
Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one’s own sins.
CHANAKYA

Born Evil Fruit Oneself Poor Poverty Prison Sick Sin Tree
Charity puts and end to poverty; righteous conduct to misery; discretion to ignorance; and scrutiny to fear.
CHANAKYA

Charity End Fear Ignorance Poor Poverty
Let not a single day pass without your learning a verse, half a verse, or a fourth of it, or even one letter of it; nor without attending to charity, study and other pious activity.
CHANAKYA

Activity Charity Education Learning Religious Study
The forest fire burns even tree like sandalwood.
CHANAKYA

Burn Equality Fire Forest Tree
He who runs away from a fearful calamity, a foreign invasion, a terrible famine, and the companionship of wicked men is safe.
CHANAKYA

Adversity Attack Company Fear Foreign Friendship Man Run Safety War
Accumulated wealth is saved by spending just as incoming fresh water is saved by letting out stagnant water.
CHANAKYA

Money Save Water Wealth Wisdom
Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.
CHANAKYA

Compassionate Divine Heart Mindset Need Purity Rise Talk
If a king is energetic, his subjects will be equally energetic.
CHANAKYA

Affect Energy King Subject

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