Chanakya Niti

Six evils that burn man even without fire

A wife and girl friend hold an important position in a man's life. When a man falls in love with a woman he cannot even think about a life without her and if they get separated he becomes hopeless in life.
According to Acharya Chanakya, a good man burns without fire in six conditions.
He said, separation from the wife, disgrace from one’s own people, and an enemy saved in battle, service to a wicked king, poverty, and a mismanaged assembly is the six kinds of evils, if afflicting a person, burn him even without fire.
Chanakya said that if a good man is caught in war by his enemy he feels disgraced and insulted throughout his life.
Similarly, if a man is insulted by his own people he gets hurt and suffers.
Also if a good man serves a wicked king he suffers throughout his life.

4 things that makes a man a good human being

A good person carries good thoughts while a bad person carries bad thoughts. This is how people differential between good and bad people.
Chanakya says as the value of gold is decided after it goes through all the tests, similarly, qualities, ability to sacrifice, karma and renunciation decides the value of man.
A person should not expect anything in return when he sacrifices for someone. A person like this is a good

Save your soul

Every person born on this earth has to die one day. According to Chanakya, a man is great by deeds, not by birth.
He says, as long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is imminent what can you do?
In order to keep the soul healthy one should indulge in good deeds and one should not trouble others. He says, once a person losses his health he cannot do anything and after death only a person's deeds are remembered.
Hence, once should always do good deeds and serve other people.

Key to happy life

It is true that nobody can change the past. But, some people keep thinking about what happened in the past and end up ruining their present and future.
According to Acharya Chanakya, a person who is always worried about whatever happened in the past can never be happy. One should learn from their past and move ahead in life.
He says, every person should make sure that he doesn’t repeat the mistakes committed in the past. Staying upset about something that happened will not serve any purpose.
Similarly, people should not get upset about some predictions that may happen in future.
Chanakya says, predicting future is impossible and there are high chances that the prophesies may prove false. Hence, a man should not worry about the past or the future and live in the present. Following this principle will keep a man happy throughout his life

Know your well-wisher


Never reveal your wife’s character

According to him, a wise man keeps his weakness secret. People who reveals his weakness is sure to land in trouble in future.
Anything that upsets us or inflicts agony should never be told to anyone.
Similarly, a person should never tell anyone about his financial status or his wife's misconduct.
Chanakya says a person should never tell anyone if a person of a low rank insults him.

The four habits that a person can never change

A man learns everything after birth. He takes up the good and bad habits from the environment he is brought up in.Every human being has some habits that he cannot change. According to acharya Chanakya every man has four habits that no one can teach him or change in him.
He said, generosity, pleasing address, courage and propriety of conduct are not acquired, but are inbred qualities.He said that nobody can make a person more generous or less generous. Similarly, a person who uses bitter tone since birth cannot change his habit ever.

Chanakya Niti

  • A wicked wife, a false friend, a saucy servant and living in a house with serpent in it are nothing but death.
  • Do not inhabit a country where you are not respected, cannot earn your livelihood, have no friends or cannot acquire knowledge.
  • Do not stay for a single day where there are not these five persons: A wealthy man, a brahmin well versed in vedic lore, a king, a river and a physician.
  • Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and wife in misfortune.
  • Do not put your trust in rivers, men who carry weapons, beasts with claws or horns, women, and member of a royal family.
  • Separation from the wife, disgrace from one's own people, an enemy saved in battle, service to wicked king, poverty, and a mismanaged assembly: these six kinds of evils, if afflicting a person, burn him even without fire.
  • Tress on a riverbank, a woman in another man's house, and kings without counselors go without doubt to swift destruction.
  • Friendship between equals flourished, service under a king is respectable, it is good to be business-minded in public dealing, and a beautiful lady is safe in her home.
  • As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul, when death is immanent what can you do?
  • As a single withered tree, if set flame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.
  • The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear and, nor protect it from the bites of insects.
  • The fragrance of flowers only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.
  • The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.