Munindra Misra Quotes

Devi-Mahatmayam has special meaning for spirituality,
With illumination, wisdom, strength - to freedom finally!
- 150 -

Lust, anger, attachment, greed, over pride be,
Jealousy, selfishness, injustice, cruelty, ego truly;
- 153 -

Speech one may regret,
Silence no sorrow begets,
Humility be born before honour,
Soft answer turns wrath's corner

Reason will always be logical,
Logic not always reasonable,
For truth from reason derivable,
And logic falsehood multipliable.

May the sunshine ever greet you
and sorrows flow away,
May the knowledge flow within you
and darkness fade away.

Man is but lost in wishes,
Of wealth, fame and riches,
This airy castle he stitches,
With logic that are his ditches.

If someone left, mean not your happiness gone surely,
Happiness dependant not on others but yourself but be.
[223] - 4 (Thoughts)

When you lose reasoning you forget humanity,
When you forget laughter you lose Divinity.
Munindra Misra

Conduct, not speech, flowery

All longings the essence for real liberation only,
Freedom from all sides, an ultimate supremacy;
- 43 -

Richness and fat does need,
In logic clever fine deeds,
But paunches never do breed,
Fine thoughts or sublime seeds.
[45] - 2

All our desires are desires of the soul, ultimately,
Though they look like desires mental or sensory;
- 39 -

Little given to brahman in distress compensated abundantly,
Is got back not in equal quantity, but in a way higher degree.
[210] 12.2 Chanakya

You have a heart, you have a face,
You are a girl with a grace,
You are simple, you are true,
You are catching and I love you.

God's Creation - fulfillment of love;
Man's creation - fulfillment of want

Artha - attainment of wealth, material prosperity,
Its realization on righteous and moral basis be;
- 5 -

Instead of spending your dear energy on hating enemies,
Utilize this energy to love your friends a little harder truly.
[229] - 4 (Thoughts)

Where you are not respected inhabit not that country,
You can not earn, have friends and get knowledge truly.
[8] 1.8 Chanakya

All make mistakes but the important thing then should be,
Learn from them and do not repeat them subsequently.
[230] - 4 (Thoughts)

Rigveda: Book No 1. Hyme No. 164 verse 46:
Truth, one and the same be,
Wise describe it differently

Save wealth but never assume it removes all calamity,
When riches forsake, amassed stock dwindles rapidly.
[7] 1.7 Chanakya

Save money for adversity, wife against riches undoubtedly,
But save the soul even against wife and riches invariably.
[6] 1.6 Chanakya

The learned has grieve by instructing foolish disciple surely,
As a wicked wife or with the wretched having familiarity.
[4] 1.4 Chanakya

Hypocrisy a homage is true,
That vice pays to virtue,
Be man - himself so true,
That no false does he brew.

Only real true friends will tell you when your face is dirty,
Others will either pamper, avoid or laugh at you certainly.
[227] - 4 (Thoughts)

Kama purusharth advocates desires fulfilled be,
Albeit in awareness, without harming anybody;

A wicked wife, a false friend, a saucy servant begets misery,
As living in a house with a serpent in it begets death surely.
[5] 1.5 Chanakya

A dog to vomit does turn,
A fool to folly but return,
The wise err and learn,
Gaining from each burn.