A man may live but for a moment, but that moment should be spent in doing auspicious deeds. It is useless living even for a kalpa (4,32०,०००,००० years) and bringing only distress upon the two worlds
It certainly is nature of the demigods, men of good character, and parents to be easily pleased. Near and distant relatives are pleased when they are hospitably received with bathing, food, and drink; and pandits are pleased with an opportunity for giving spiritual discourse.
आयुः कर्म च वित्तं च विद्या निधनमेव च ।
पञ्चैतानि हि सृज्यन्ते गर्भस्थस्यैव देहिनः ॥ ०४ ॥
āyuḥ karma ca vittaṃ ca vidyā nidhanameva ca .
pañcaitāni hi sṛjyante garbhasthasyaiva dehinaḥ .. 04 ..
Even as the unborn babe is in the womb of his mother, these five are fixed as his life destiny: his life span, his activities, his acquisition of wealth and knowledge, and his time of death.
aho bata vicitrāṇi caritāni mahātmanām .
lakṣmīṃ tṛṇāya manyante tadbhāreṇa namanti ca .. 05 ..
O see what a wonder it is! The doings of the great are strange: they treat wealth as light as a straw, yet, when they obtain it, they bend under its weight.
He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.
He who is prepared for the future and he who deals cleverly with any situation that may arise are both happy; but the fatalistic man who wholly depends on luck is ruined.
If the king is virtuous, then the subjects are also virtuous. If the king is sinful, then the subjects also become sinful. If he is mediocre, then the subjects are mediocre. The subjects follow the example of the king
He who has acquired neither virtue, wealth, satisfaction of desires nor salvation (dharma, artha, kama, moksa), lives an utterly useless life, like the "nipples" hanging from the neck of a goat.
बन्धाय विषयासङ्गो मुक्त्यै निर्विषयं मनः ।
मन एव मनुष्याणां कारणं बन्धमोक्षयोः ॥ १२ ॥
bandhāya viṣayāsaṅgo muktyai nirviṣayaṃ manaḥ .
mana eva manuṣyāṇāṃ kāraṇaṃ bandhamokṣayoḥ .. 12 ..
Excessive attachment to sense pleasures leads to bondage, and detachment from sense pleasures leads to liberation; therefore it is the mind alone that is responsible for bondage or liberation.
dehābhimāne galitaṃ jñānena paramātmani .
yatra yatra mano yāti tatra tatra samādhayaḥ .. 13 ..
He who sheds bodily identification by means of knowledge of the indwelling Supreme Self , will always be absorbed in meditative trance (samadhi) wherever his mind leads him
अनवस्थितकार्यस्य न जने न वने सुखम् ।
जनो दहति संसर्गाद्वनं सङ्गविवर्जनात् ॥ १६ ॥
anavasthitakāryasya na jane na vane sukham .
jano dahati saṃsargādvanaṃ saṅgavivarjanāt .. 16 ..
He whose actions are disorganised has no happiness either in the midst of men or in a jungle, in the midst of men his heart burns by social contacts, and his helplessness burns him in the forest.
Even the man who has taught the spiritual significance of just one letter ought to be worshiped. He who does not give reverence to such a guru is born as a dog a hundred times, and at last takes birth as a chandala
At the end of the yuga, Mount Meru may be shaken; at the end of the kalpa, the waters of the seven oceans may be disturbed; but a sadhu will never swerve from the spiritual path.