No Amount Of Advice Change

Even A Pandit Comes To Grief By Giving Instruction To A Foolish Disciple, By Maintaining A Wicked Wife, And By Excessive Familiarity With The Miserable.

By Means Of Hearing One Understands Dharma, Malignity Vanishes, Knowledge Is Acquired, And Liberation From Material Bondage Is Gained.

Eschew Wicked Company And Associate With Saintly Persons. Acquire Virtue Day And Night, And Always Meditate On That Which Is Eternal Forgetting That Which Is Temporary.

Religion Is Preserved By Wealth; Knowledge By Diligent Practice; A King By Conciliatory Words; And A Home By A Dutiful Housewife.

The Disgrace Of One's People Brings Sorrow To The Nobel Minded.