Chanakya Neeti - Chapter 1

Chanakya Neeti (The book) - Chapter 1


Chanakya Neeti (The book) has seventeen chapter. In the section below, I have attempted to showcase the ideas included in the very first chapter. Tried my best to translate the verses in most accurate manner. Yet, there might be few glitches. Have a look over the following:

Chanakya neeti says not to :
Give any advice to a foolish person
try taking care of a woman with loose character
keep company of a sad fellow

as all of them are totally useless.

House having any of the following in them is not well suited for living:
An ill-tempered wife with low morals
A wicked and deceitful friend
A talkative servant with impoliteness in him/her
A venomous snake

A person must save money for the bad days. Anyhow, woman must be protected even at the cost of money you saved…

Chanakya says that money is one of the most significant assets a man must have. It brings you you the honor, support and makes you capable to deal with calamities.

There is no point to live in a country/region where:
You cannot find an employment
Are not respected
Have no friends and well wishers
Cannot find an education

… It will be better to quit such place.

Do not live even for a single day on the places where you cannot find the following five :
Prosperous businessmen
A Brahmin well versed
Soldiers
River
Doctor

A man must leave a place that has:
No fear of law
People having no shame
No clever men
No Spirit of charity
No Art

Test a wife at time when your wealth is lost, a friend in need, relatives at the time of crises and servant on some important mission.

Whoever helps you at the time of illness, misfortune, famines and invasion is your true brother in real scenes.

A person who cannot decide his goal, simply cannot win.

How to Make Money $$

Money is the only thing which matters in this world, all else religion, cast, creed, faith, nationality, exists for this purpose to be achieved, so that the commerce prospers.

How to make more money.

1. There are people who make Rs.5000/- in a month.
For corporate trainings, some companies pay me Rs.5000 an hour.
There are doctors who charge 5 lakh for a 1 hour operation.
An american singer named Adele charges more than 5 crore to sing for an hour.
Question: How do you explain this difference?
Answer: You don't get paid for time, you get paid for the Value you give in return.

2. The Govt. teaches us to demand what we deserve. Hamari Mangey poori Karo. Our Rights...
This is wrong. Nobody gets rich by demanding.
If you get Rs.10,000 a month, and you form a group, demand, sit on strike, you can't make Rs.50,000. You can demand only small increase, you cannot multiply. To multiply your income, start performing better than anybody else. You get rich by becoming the best in what you do, showing results and giving an outstanding performance.

Spend more effort in Improving your Value than the effort you spend in your Job to make money.

3. Make it a habit to always give much more than what is expected from you.
If you want to keep stepping up the corporate ladder, keep getting promotions, here is the most important tip - In whatever you do, whenever you do, put in more effort than is expected, show better results than is expected. Work harder and do it in a pleasing state of mind, do it smiling and love what you do. This will make you unstoppable.

4. Whenever you get a job offer, people usually ask - What will I get? This is bad.
Focus on what you are becoming, not what you are getting. The only way to earn may times is to increase your own value. If the current job is paying good, but your value is not increasing, it is a bad investment.

5. Bad times will Always come, and so will good times.
It is morning now, and soon it will be night. You cannot stop it, at least on this earth. It is summer now and winter will come. Undoubtedly. If you are happy now, bad times will come. If you are sad now, good times will also definitely come. This is life and you cannot change it, this has been so ever since man was born.
What you can and need to change is yourself. Here is what to do in good times - Keep thinking about bad times when you are in good times, save money for the bad times, work harder for the bad times, because for sure, they will come.
When in bad times, just keep thinking of the good times and prepare to make the most of it as soon as it comes.

6. Get yourself into action.
You have to make your powerful mind to obey your commands. Make everything important "A Must Do NOW", instead of a "I should do this soon".

Today is Sunday. Get up, Get some of the things you know you should do done now, and see how satisfied you will feel when you go back to sleep at night today.

Interesting definitions of common words

Atom Bomb: An invention made to end all inventions.   

Boss: Someone who is early when you are late and late when you are early. 

College: A place where some pursue learning and others learn pursuing.

Committee: Individuals who can do nothing individually and sit to decide that nothing can be done together.

Compromise: The art of dividing a cake in such a way that everybody believes he got the biggest piece.

Conference: The confusion of one man multiplied by the number present.

Conference Room: A place where everybody talks, nobody listens & everybody disagrees later on.

Dictionary: A place where divorce comes before marriage.

Divorce: Future tense of marriage.

Doctor: A person who kills your ills by pills, and kills you with his bills.

Etc.: A sign to make others believe that you know more than you actually do.

Experience: The name men give to their mistakes.

Father: A banker provided by nature.

Lecture: An art of transferring information from the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the students without passing through "the minds of either".

Love affairs: Something like cricket where one-day internationals are more popular than a five-day test.

Marriage: It's an agreement in which a man loses his bachelor degree and woman gains her master.

Miser: A person who lives poor so that he can die rich.

Office: A place where you can relax after your strenuous home life.

Optimist: A person who while falling from Eiffel tower says in midway "See I am not injured yet."

Opportunist: A person who starts taking bath if he accidentally falls into a river.

Pessimist: A person who says that O is the last letter in ZERO, Instead of the first letter in word OPPORTUNITY.

Philosopher: A fool who torments himself during life, to be spoken of when dead.

Politician: One who shakes your hand before elections and your Confidence after.

Smile: A curve that can set a lot of things straight.

Tears: The hydraulic force by which masculine will-power is defeated by feminine waterpower.

Yawn: The only time some married men ever get to open their mouth.