Chanakya Neeti

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यस्य चित्तं द्रवीभूतं कृपया सर्वजन्तुषु । तस्य ज्ञानेन मोक्षेण किं जटाभस्मलेपनैः ॥१॥

sanskrit

For a person whose heart melts with compassion for every living being, what need does he have for knowledge, for liberation, for wearing a hair-dress on his head and for rubbing ashes on his body?

english translation

hindi translation

yasya cittaM dravIbhUtaM kRpayA sarvajantuSu | tasya jJAnena mokSeNa kiM jaTAbhasmalepanaiH ||1||

hk transliteration

एकमप्यक्षरं यस्तु गुरुः शिष्यं प्रबोधयेत । पृथिव्यां नास्ति तद्द्रव्यं यद्दत्त्वा सोऽनृणी भवेत ॥२॥

sanskrit

There is no fund in this world which can repay the debt of even a single letter given by the Sadguru to the disciple.

english translation

hindi translation

ekamapyakSaraM yastu guruH ziSyaM prabodhayeta | pRthivyAM nAsti taddravyaM yaddattvA so'nRNI bhaveta ||2||

hk transliteration

खलानां कण्टकानां च द्विविधैव प्रतिक्रिया | उपान्मुखभङ्गो वा दूरतो वा विसर्जनम् ॥३॥

sanskrit

There is only one way to protect yourself from thorns and evildoers - to break their faces with shoes or to shun them from a distance.

english translation

hindi translation

khalAnAM kaNTakAnAM ca dvividhaiva pratikriyA | upAnmukhabhaGgo vA dUrato vA visarjanam ||3||

hk transliteration

कुचैलिनं दन्तम॒लोपधारिणं बह्वाशिनं निष्ठुरभाषिणं च । सूर्योदये चास्तमिते शयानं विमुञ्चति श्रीर्यदि चक्रपाणिः ॥४॥

sanskrit

One who wears unclean clothes, whose teeth are not clean, who eats excessively, who speaks harsh words and who wakes up after sunrise cannot attain the blessings of Lakshmi, even if Lord Chakrapani herself is there.

english translation

hindi translation

kucailinaM dantama॒lopadhAriNaM bahvAzinaM niSThurabhASiNaM ca | sUryodaye cAstamite zayAnaM vimuJcati zrIryadi cakrapANiH ||4||

hk transliteration

त्यजन्ति मित्राणि धनैर्विहीनं पुत्राश्च दाराश्च सुहृज्जनाश्च । तमर्थवन्तं पुनराश्रयन्ति अर्थो हि लोके मनुषस्य बन्धुः ॥५॥

sanskrit

Friends, wife, servants, brothers, all of them abandon a moneyless person, but when the same person becomes rich again, they accept his intentions. Money is man's friend in this world.

english translation

hindi translation

tyajanti mitrANi dhanairvihInaM putrAzca dArAzca suhRjjanAzca | tamarthavantaM punarAzrayanti artho hi loke manuSasya bandhuH ||5||

hk transliteration