A few words on the welfare of a state

 

                                   A few words on the welfare of a state

•             There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare.
•            To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of the skill. Thus, what is of supreme importance in wars is to attack the enemy’s strategy 
•            When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditure, there is no fear of impoverishment of your state.
•     The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Precious thoughts to cherish

  

                                Precious thoughts to cherish

•             If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find the truth you will become invincible.
•            The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
•            Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
•           Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wiseman, his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of his life.
•           Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not with insensibility but through greatness of mind.
•          Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
•        The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

Healthy wisdom quotes from Sanskrit

 

                           Healthy wisdom quotes from Sanskrit 

•         If not digested, food becomes poison.
•         A good sleep takes away half of the ailments.
•         Worry brings out diseases.
•         Exercise should be done slowly.
•        Hunger makes the meals tasty.
•       You should incorporate and enjoy all types of tastes like sweet, salty, sour etc in your daily intake of food. According to Ayurveda , there are 6 Rasas or tastes ; Madhura ( sweet), Amla ( sour ), lavana ( salty ),  Katu ( pungent ), Tikta ( bitter ), and Kashaya ( astringent). All these tastes are essential for balancing the three doshas or bodily or biological humors, promoting proper digestion, health, immunity and vitality of the body.
•     You should fill your stomach half with food, one fourth with water and one fourth to be left for circulation of air to aid digestion.
•   While taking food, you should munch like a goat. If you munch food you will live for 100 years , meaning a long healthy life. Absence of indigestion is the yardstick of long, healthy life. When you munch food slowly and mix it with saliva, then it is digested in the stomach. Indigestion is the main cause of diseases.
•   Water serves as medicine in indigestion.
• For healthy long life, one should walk 100 steps after taking meals.
• One shouldn’t take bath immediately after food.
•  A good bath makes the mind happy and destroys bad dreams.
•   For taking meals one should leave 100 works and for bath 1000 works.