DISGRACE AND DEATH ARE BETTER, SOME TIMES

Sunday

My friend, it is better to be disgraced by good people than to have as an ornament the association of bad people. Glory comes to him who is trampled underfoot by a gallant horse [in battle] and not to the one seated animatedly on a donkey.

वरं सखे सत्पुरुषापमानितो न नीचसंसर्गगुणैरलङ्कृतः |
वराश्वपादेन हतो विराजते न रासभस्योपरि संस्थितो नरः ||

varam sakhE sathpuruSHApamAnithO na nIchasamsargaguNairalankrthaha |
varAshvapAdhEna hathO virAjathE na rAsabhasyOpari samsTHithO naraha ||

A Neem Leaf A Day ….

To enjoy a diamond-hard constitution for a hundred years and all kinds of wealth and to annihilate that which is undesirable, one must eat the tender shoots of the neem tree.

शतायुर्वज्रदेहाय सर्वसंपत्कराय च |
सर्वानिष्टविनाशाय निम्बकन्दलभक्षणम् ||

shathAyurvajradhEhAya sarvasampathpradhAya cha |
sarvAniSHtavinAshAya nimbakandhalabhakSHaNam ||

The Ways of the Wise

Those who study ceaselessly do not run the risk of becoming fools; those who contemplate their actions do not run into danger; a person who keeps his counsel does not get embroiled in a dispute; and one who is vigilant need have no fear.

पठतो नास्ति मूर्खत्वं जपतो नास्ति पातकम् |
मौनिनः कलहो नास्ति न भयं चास्ति जाग्रतः ||

paTathO nAsthi mUrkhathvam japathO nAsthi pAthakam |
mouninaha kalahO nAsthi na bhayam chAsthi jAgrathaha ||