Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Something to ponder

There is no disease so destructive as lust; no enemy like infatuation; no fire like wrath; and no happiness like spiritual knowledge.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good or bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to the hellish planets or to the supreme abode.

Heaven is but a straw to him who knows spiritual life (a life devoted to Sri Krishna); so is life to a valiant man; a woman to him who has subdued his senses; and the universe to him who is without attachment for the world.

Learning is a friend on a journey; a devoted wife in the house; medicine in sickness; and religious merit is the only friend after death.

Niti Shastra - Chanakya pandit