Wednesday, November 1, 2017

Thumb rules for a good and purposeful life

Thumb rules   for a good  and purposeful life

Translated  by
P.R.Ramachander



(Based on a post in face book by several people in Tamil under the heading  71 rules but actually they were much less  because  they were  not properly numbered .But the rules make a sense for good  living. )

1.Do not remain without  learning and relearning ,
What we   have learnt already  and what we are going to learn.

2.Do not unnecessarily  blame others  and make them sad.

3.Under no circumstances forget or drive away  your mother.

4.Do not become friends with bad people whose words  and acts  are not liked by us.\

5.Do not ever go to places  where there  is no need togo.

6.Do not  criticize  others behind their back

7.After understanding   that a matter  is lie  , do not tell it to any one else.

8.Do not  try to stabilize  matters   which are  not stable.

9.Do not have  any dealings with poison   and people  like poison.

10.Dpo not be friendly with those  who do not think like us and those   who cannot judge good or bad.

11.Do not go for a long trip   without  sipport of others.

12.Do not ever trouble those who came with faith in us.

13. Do not ever   wander without aim or listlessly.

14,Bever trust  a  staranger  like your relation

15,Work and eat and do not bury  savings down the soil.

16.Teach Dharma   and never forsake it
17.Do npt invite great sorrows due to short temper

18.Do not ever go  to meet those  who are  angry with us   for a long time.

19.Do not exaggerate   the crimes of others

20.Do not  move with thieves   or murderers.

21.Do not ever go to the home of those   who do not respect us

22.Do not disregard  the advice given by  those who  are more experienced than us

23,Do not have any friendship with impatient   short tempered people

24,Do not ever not give fee  to the Guru who taught us

25.Do not have friendship with dacoits

26.Do not    do any  attempt to act without analyzing its good or   bad

27.Do not  maintain false accounts and deceive people

28.Do not enter  a place where some enemies   are fighting with each  other,

29.Do not stay even a day  in a public land

30. At the same time do not  live with two wives

31.Do not develop enmity   with weak and poor people

32.Do not develop friendship with people    who should be avoided.

33.Do not ever  forget the   good that is done to you by others

34.Do not create gossip and quarrels  in any  locality

35.Do not ever neglect close   friends and relatives

36.Do not lose chances to do acts   which would bring   good fame.

37.Do not come under the control of some one else and live without being able to get free from them.

38.Do not find fault   with the place   where we live.

39.Do not quarrel unnecessarily due   to hatread of some one else.

40.Do not   make others sad   without any kindness.

41.Do not tell that you have seen a thing , which  you have not seen.

42.Do not tell words that  will hurt  others

43.Do not be friends with   those who criticize others  behind their back

44.Do not be friends with people   who flatter  themselves

45.Do not spend time  in meaningless  arguments

46.Do not make others quarrel because  of  your to speak

47.Never forget God or godliness

48,Never tell a lie , even if you may not live.

49.Do not be friends with relations who  unnecessarily find fault

50.You have  to  give proper compensation along with sweet words  to   doctors, teachers  , washermen, barbers  and nurses

51.Do not  split a family living with unity

52.Do not interfere   in acts which will bring bad name to others

53.D not ever  move with people of evil habits

54.Never find fault   with God


55.Do not hate   respectable old people   with great experience

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