RAMAYANA

Truth is the highest Dharma,

To be happy always is something

difficult to achieve,

Happiness and sorrow alternate in one’s life,

There cannot be uninterrupted happiness alone,

What Rama says once he carries out; There is no looking back,

Only the timid and the weak leave things to destiny,

The strong and the self-confident never bank on destiny or luck,

A Veena cannot exist without its strings,

A chariot cannot exist without its wheels,

Without her husband a woman can never live happily even though she has a hundred sons.

Grief destroys one’s courage,

It destroys one’s learning,

It destroys one’s everything,

There is no enemy greater than grief,

Just as people are afraid of serpents,

They are afraid of people who utter lies,

Truth controls this world,

Dharma is rooted in truth.

It is difficult for the children to repay the debt of what the mother and the father have done to bring them up.

Beauty may leave the moon, Himalayas may become bereft of snow,

The ocean may transgress its shores,

But I will never violate the promise given by my father.

A wise man should foresee tragedy or misfortune,

Take action to prevent or overcome such tragedy or misfortune well before it strikes,

Only he can enjoy a safe and good life,

One should lift only such weight as will not exhaust one beyond a limit, One should eat only such food as will easily digest.

Enthusiasm has great strength,

There is no greater strength than enthusiasm,

There is nothing which is not attainable in this world for the enthusiastic,

Whether in sorrow or in happiness a friend is always a friend’s support,

To err is human,

There is none who has not erred some time or other,

One should not let one’s mind to be overcome by melancholy,

Melancholy or moroseness is a very bad thing,

It destroys a man just as an angered serpent kills a child.