Sri Chanakya Niti – Chapter 01

Author : Prafullakumar Seelam

E-mail : prafulla123@gmail.com

Date Produced : 2017

Serial No : 19 of 54

Contents

• Invocatory Prayers to the Supreme Lord

• Benefits of studying Niti-Sastra

• Cause of suffering, Death

• Save your soul

• Wealth, Residence, Association, Friendship, Marriage, Trust,

Valuables and eternity

• Women Compared to Men

Bowing my head before the overlord of

the three worlds and master of all, the

all-pervasive Vishnu, I now recite

maxims selected from various sastras

pertaining to political ethics.

A person is most excellent who, through a study of these

scriptural respects obtained from various sastras, acquires an

understanding of these principles of Dharma, And there by

understands what is to be followed and what is not to be

followed.

Therefore with an eye to the public good , I (Chanakya) shall

speak that which when understood will lead to knowledge of all

things in their proper perspective.

Even a learned Pandita suffers by instructing a foolish disciple,

by maintaining a wicked wife and by association with the

wretched.

An unchaste wife, a false friend, an insolent servant and living

with a poisonous serpent in the house are nothing but death.

Save your money against hard times, protect your wife at the

sacrifice of riches, but always save your soul even at the cost of

your wife and riches.

Put aside some wealth in case of future calamity. Never ask, “

why should a rich man dreed hard times ? “ If Lakshmi, the

Goddess of fortune, decides to go else where, your savings will

dwindle.

Never live in that land where you are disrespected, cannot earn

a living, or friendless or there is nothing to be learned.

Do not stay even for a day, where you do not find these five :

a Man of means, a Brahmana learned in the Vedas, a King, a

River and a Physician.

Do not live in places where there is no means of earning a living,

where the citizens have no fear and shame and where they lack

expertise and renunciation.

The servant is tested in the discharge of his duty and a relative is

tested in difficulty. A friend is tested in a time of misfortune and a

wife when once wealth dwindles.

He alone is your true friend who does not forsake you even when

you are ill, in misfortune, famine, when surrounded by enemies,

in the court of the king or at the funeral pyre.

He who renounces that which is imperishable for that which is

perishable, losses that which is imperishable and doubtlessly

losses the perishable also.

A wise man should marry a virgin of a respectable family even if

she is ugly. He should not marry even a beautiful girl of good

character from a lower class. Marriage in a family of equal status

is preferable.

Never trust revers, armed men, beasts with claws or horns,

women or politicians.

From poison extract nectar. Retrieve gold from an uncleaned

place. Learn the absolute truth from even the low-born. And

marry a jewel-like woman even if she is born in a disreputable

family.

Women have twice the hunger, four times the shyness, six times

the daring and eight times the lust as compared to men.

Thus ends Chapter One

• Sri Chanakya Niti by Patita Pavana Das Adhikari ( ACBSP)

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