GREAT THOUGHTS BY CHANAKYA

‎15 GREAT THOUGHTS BY CHANAKYA

· Learn from the mistakes of others.

  You can't live long enough to make them all yourselves.

· A person should not be too honest.

  Straight trees are cut first and honest people are targeted first.

· Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.

· There is some self-interest behind every friendship.

  There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

· 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.

· As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

· The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.

· Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and

  don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

· The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind.

  But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.

· God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your

  temple.

· A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

· Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status.

  Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

· Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five

  years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend.

  Your grown up children are your best friends.

· Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind

  person.

· Education is the Best Friend. An Educated Person is Respected everywhere. Education beats the Beauty and the Youth.

Quality of action

         Work has the power to become prayer. Prayer has the power to become meditation. Meditation has the power to merge you in GOD.In everything the higher and the deeper can be experienced. It all depends on the quality you bring to your actions than the action itself.

          The highest man cannot work, for there is no binding element, no attachment, no ignorance in him. A ship is said to have passed over a mountain of magnet ore, and all the bolts and bars were drawn out, and it went to pieces. It is in ignorance that struggle remains, because we are all really atheists. Real theists cannot work. We are atheists more or less. We do not see God or believe in Him. He is G-O-D to us, and nothing more.

There are moments when we think He is near, but then we fall down again. When you see Him, who struggles for whom? Help the Lord! There is a proverb in our language, "Shall we teach the Architect of the universe how to build?" So those are the highest of mankind who do not work. The next time you see these silly phrases about the world and how we must all help God and do this or that for Him, remember this. Do not think such thoughts; they are too selfish.

All the work you do is subjective, is done for your own benefit. God has not fallen into a ditch for you and me to help Him out by building a hospital or something of that sort. He allows you to work. He allows you to exercise your muscles in this great gymnasium, not in order to help Him but that you may help yourself. Do you think even an ant will die for want of your help? Most arrant blasphemy! The world does not need you at all. The world goes on you are like a drop in the ocean. A leaf does not move, the wind does not blow without Him.

Blessed are we that we are given the privilege of working for Him, not of helping Him. Cut out this word "help" from your mind. You cannot help; it is blaspheming. You are here yourself at His pleasure. Do you mean to say, you help Him? You worship. When you give a morsel of food to the dog, you worship the dog as God. God is in that dog. He is the dog. He is all and in all. We are allowed to worship Him.

Stand in that reverent attitude to the whole universe, and then will come perfect non-attachment. This should be your duty. This is the proper attitude of work. This is the secret taught by Karma-Yoga