• These five: the life span, the type of work, wealth, learning and the time of one's death are determined while one is in the womb.
  • Offsprings, friends and relatives flee from a devotee of the lord: yet those who follow him bring merit to their  family through their  devotion.
  • Fish, tortoises and birds bring up their young by sight attention and touch, so do saintly man afford protection to their associate's by the same means.
  • As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant try to save your soul, when death is immient what can you do?.
  • Learning is like a cow of desire. It like her yields in all seasons. Like a mother it feeds on your journey. Therefore learning is a hidden treasure.
  • A single son endowed with good qualities is far better than hundred's of devoid of them. For the moon, though one, disples the darkness, which the stars though numerous cannot.
  • A stillborn son is superior to foolish son endowed with a long life. The first causes a grief for but a moment while the latter like a blazing fire consumes his parents in grief for life.
  • Residing in a small village devoid of proper living  facilities, serving a person born of a low , unwholesome food, a frowning wife, a foolish son and a widowed daughter burn the body without fire.
  • What good is a cow that neither gives milk nor conceives? Similarly, what is the value of the birth of son if he neither becomes  learned nor pure devotee of the lord?.
  • When one is consumed by the sorrows of life, three things give him relief, offspring, a wife, and the company of the Lord's devotees.
  • Kings speak for once, men of learning once, and the daughter is given in marriage once. All these things happens once and only once.
  • Religious austerities should be practiced alone, study by two and singing by three, a journey should be undertaken by four, agriculture by five and war by many together.
  • She is a true wife who is clean, expert, chaste, pleasing to the husband and truthful.
  • The house of childness person is void, all directions are void to one, who has no relatives , the heart of a fool is also void , but to poverty stricken man all is void.
  • Scriptural lessons not put into practice are poison, a meal is poison to him who suffers from indigestion, a social gathering is poison to a poverty stricken person, and a young wife is poison to aged man.
  • The man who is without religion and mercy should be rejected. A guru without spiritual knowledge should be rejected. The wife with an offensive face should be given up, and so should relatives without affection.
  • Constant travel brings old age upon a man, a horse becomes old by being constantly tied up, lack of sexual contact  with her husband brings old age upon a women, and garments become old through being left in the sun.
  • Consider again and again the following: the right time, the right place, the right friends, the right means of income, the right way of spending , and from whom you derive your power.
  • For the twice born the fire is a representative of god. The supreme lord resites in the heart of his devotees. Those of average intelligence see god only in his sri-murti, but those of broad vision see the supreme lord everywhere.