The worthy person is grateful and mindful of benefits done to him. This gratitude, this mindfulness, is congenial to the best people.
Supporting one’s parents, cherishing spouse and children and a peaceful occupation; this is the greatest blessing.
One should not injure, subjugate, enslave, torture, or kill any animal, living being, organism, or sentient being. This doctrine of nonviolence is immaculate, immutable, and eternal.
One who identifies himself with his soul regards bodily transmigration of his soul at death fearlessly, like changing one cloth for another.
He is the true hero who fights to protect the helpless; though cut limb from limb, flees not the field.
Not knowing the consequence of good and evil karmas, he is afflicted and hurt. Nevertheless, he, due to his egotism, piles up more karmas and undergoes births and deaths again and again.
Success is the result of foresight and resolution; foresight depends upon deep thinking and planning to keep your secrets to yourself.
The mode of living which is founded upon a total harmlessness towards all creatures upon a minimum of such harm is the highest morality.
If an evil man comes and creates a disturbance, you should hold your peace. You must not angrily upbraid his; then he who has come to curse you will merely harm himself.
Even as a mirror reflects an object held close to it, one’s behavior reflects as the ego-sense in one’s consciousness. But if held at a distance, ego-sense does not arise.
