Sayings of Chanakya.

Read them on Facebook and found them interesting, well most of them but not all. What I feel about the sayings of these great people is that they shouldn't be followed blindly. These people are experienced and successful, but they are among us only. Their sayings aren't universal truth and are just piece of their own minds. So, while reading the given lines, use your own head and think how influential these lines may be in your life and hence need to be critically analyzed before being followed.

15 GREAT THOUGHTS BY CHANAKYA

1) "Learn from the mistakes of others... you can't live long enough to make them all yourselves!!"

2)"A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and Honest people are screwed first."

3)"Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous."

4)"There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth."


5)" 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."


6)"As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it."


7)"The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman."


8)"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."


9)"The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction."


10)"God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple."


11) "A man is great by deeds, not by birth."


12) "Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness."


13) "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."


14) "Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person."


15) "Education is the Best Friend. An Educated Person is Respected Everywhere. Education beats the Beauty and the Youth."

The Three Aspects Of Life

Let me bring light on the various aspects of our lives. We have two things that mainly constitute our everyday life ( actually there are three, but the third ironically may cause the life to become meaningless, depends on how our timing of utilization.

• First, being our duties, which we are born to perform. We have several primary duties and may adopt secondary duties depending on our second aspect( discussed later). Care has to be taken that the primary duty is not overshadowed due to secondary duties. Now, these duties form the essential part of our life, giving the life it's meaning and creating our identity in this world. We are judged upon how we perform our primary duties and how we handle our secondary duties. A successful person is the one who is able to develop a balance between his/her primary and secondary duties.
• Second, our interests. They are essential part of our life and make it complete and healthy. No, person can be happy and successful by excelling in only one of the aspects and ignoring the other. Both are equally essential. Our interests may even take shape of our secondary duties and also primary duties depending upon the space they take up in our life. But, one should we aware of how to differentiate between primary and secondary duties and interests and how much space we should give to each. If duties form our material body, interests are our soul. Keeping either one unhealthy will lead to consequences we are already aware of.
• Third is the trickiest part of our lives, the worldly pleasures. They will be like ultimate delight giving affairs ,which will tend to deviate you away from either or both the aspects of life. One must brace up in order to make self-conscience strong enough to prevent us from falling the pit of delusions of material pleasures. Beware, they give ultimate but only temporary pleasures of the mind. Their after-effects, if exercised at the cost our duties and interests are very hazardous.

So, remember third aspect should be given weight age, only if other two aspects are fully fulfilled. After-all, only we are the guardian of our body and soul and hae to take proper care of them.