Sacred Vedic Sayings

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Sacred Sayings

Source: Free Press of Journal.

 

None, who is born, is spared from death.

 

Naladiyar, 7.

 

Wealth is not intended for the thriftless and compassion not for the

non-vegetarian.

 

Tirukkural, Tura, Illa, ch. 26 (254).

 

Though painful in the beginning learning becomes pleasant, later.

 

Nithi-Neri-Vilakkan (3).

 

A man who loves himself should not injure others.

 

Buddha, Udana, Piyatara Sutta, No. l, Sona Yagga lV.

 

Learning without morality is like an dog's tail, which cannot

protect it from flies, fleas or nudity.

 

Vishnusharma, Panchatantra, Bk lll (96).

 

Leave not any work unfinised, for the world will forget those who

leave their task incomplete.

 

Tirukkural, Aras., ch. 62 (612).

 

A counsel confided to three persons like one obtained from hearsay

is divulged.

 

Bhatta Narayana, Hito, Bk ll (21).

 

The crow and the koel are differenciated only by their voices.

 

Niti Vemba, 87.

 

As the brunt of a battle falls on the courageous, the responsibility

of a family lies only on the competent few.

 

Tirukkural, Oli, ch. 103 (1027).

 

What you carefully decided to do, execute without hesitation and

delay.

 

Tirukkural, Anga, ch. 67 (668).

 

By non-performance of work none reaches worklessness.

 

By merely giving up action, none attains perfection.

 

Bhagavad Gita, lV (2).

 

Discreet persons can correctly judge a man on seeing him just as

some cleverly judge harvest by scrutinising a handful of it.

 

Vishnusharma, Panchatantra, Bk. II (86).

 

As truth and falsehood have no fear, nor ever suffer loss or harm,

even so, my spirit, fear not thou!

 

Atharva Veda, Bk ll, hymn xv, p. 60.

 

It is futile to ally one's self with either a fool or a coward.

 

Vishakhadatta, Mudrarakshasa, Act l, p. 162.

 

Nothing is impossible.

 

Bhavabhuti, Uttaramacharita, Act Vl (16).

 

The gods approve of a man's customary fare.

 

Valmiki, Ramayana, Ayodhya Kanda, ch. 102, p. 377.