We Should Not Feel Pride In Our

If The Bees Which Seek The Liquid Oozing From The Head Of A Lust-intoxicated Elephant Are Driven Away By The Flapping Of His Ears, Then The Elephant Has Lost Only The Ornament Of His Head. The Bees Are Quite Happy In The Lotus Filled Lake.

A Still-born Son Os Superior To A Foolish Son Endowed With A Long Life. The First Causes Grief For But A Moment While The Latter Like A Blazing Fire Consumes His Parents In Grief For Life.

Let Not A Single Day Pass Without Your Learning A Verse, Half A Verse, Or A Fourth Of It, Or Even One Letter Of It; Nor Without Attending To Charity, Study And Other Pious Activity.

By Means Of Hearing One Understands Dharma, Malignity Vanishes, Knowledge Is Acquired, And Liberation From Material Bondage Is Gained.

Virtuous Persons And Fruit-laden Trees Bow, But Fools And Dry Sticks Break Because They Do Not Bend.