“Offspring, friends and relatives flee from a devotee of the Lord: yet those who follow him bring merit to their families through their devotion.”

Accumulated wealth is saved by spending just as incoming fresh water is saved by letting out stagnant water.

People’s Fury is above all the furies.

If one limb of the body is defected or inflicted with, disease, the whole feels that pain. Some way if any department, minister or official of the state is faulty, the whole country is effected. An administrator should try hard to curb it.

A man attains greatness by his merits, not simply by occupying an exalted seat. Can we call a crow an eagle simply because he sits on the top of a tall building?

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Although an ass is tired, he continues to carry his burden; he is unmindful of cold and heat; and he is always contented; these three things should be learned from the ass.

If a king is energetic, his subjects will be equally energetic.

Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one’s own sins.

A friend, even if he be the enemy’s son , should be protected.

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

How well you treat the wicked people, they don’t give up their wickedness. They derive pleasure in hurting others. A serpent made to drink milk, it ejects poison only.

That man who is without religion and mercy should be rejected. A guru without spiritual knowledge should be rejected. The wife with an offensive face should be given up, and so should relatives who are without affection.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

Your feelings are your god.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.

No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.

Let not the wise disturb the mind of the unwise in their selfish work. Let him, working with devotion, show them the joy of good work.

Perhaps the most valuable thing he taught me (his father) was that there is no contradiction between devotion to work and enjoyment of life and people

The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.

Discipline says, ‘I need to.’ Duty says, ‘I ought to.’ Devotion says, ‘I want to.’

The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.