This World Is A Bitter

Time Perfects All Living Beings As Well As Kills Them; It Alone Is Awake When All Others Are Asleep. Time Is Insurmountable.

He Who Wears Unclean Garments, Has Dirty Teeth, Is A Glutton, Speaks Unkindly And Sleeps After Sunrise - Although He May Be The Greatest Personality - Will Lose The Favour Of Lakshmi.

It Is Better To Live Under A Tree In A Jungle Inhabited By Tigers And Elephants, To Maintain Oneself In Such A Place With Ripe Fruits And Spring Water, To Lie Down On Grass And To Wear The Ragged Barks Of Trees Than To Live Amongst One's Relations When Reduced To Poverty.

Brass Is Polished By Ashes; Copper Is Cleaned By Tamarind; A Woman, By Her Menses; And A River By Its Flow.

Foolishness Is Indeed Painful, And Verily So Is Youth, But More Painful By Far Than Either Is Being Obliged In Another Person's House.