
March 2017 GOOD THOUGHTS Calendar
Compiled by London swaminathan
Date: 27 FEBRUARY 2017
Time uploaded in London:- 20-33
Post No. 3675
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March 11 Masi Makam; 13 Holi; 14 Karadaiyan Nonbu; 29 Telugu New Year (Yugadhi); March 8 -International Women’s Day
27– New Moon Day
12 –Full Moon Day
Auspicious Days— 9, 15, 23, 26.

March 1 Wednesday
Wealth: “Let the wealth you earn circulate (invest)
and you keep it still
Water in a full tank, lacking an outlet
spills over and go to water (Chapter 1-2)
March 2 Thursday
Wealth: “Wealth lures wealth as tame elephants the wild;
wealth cannot be earned by wishful thinking
there can be no trade without wealth (1-3)
March 3 Friday
Wealth: “The man who lets the wealth that Fortune showers on him
sit idle, finds no happiness in the world,
nor I the next. What is he then?
A confounded fool performing a watchman’s role- 1-4
March 4 Saturday
Earned by valour alone:
“No rite of consecration
no sacred ablution
do beasts of the forests perform
to crown the lion as king? (1-6)
March 5 Sunday
Poking Nose: “He who pokes his nose where it does not belong,
surely meets his end;
for that’s what happened to the monkey who meddled
with the wedge, my friend” (1-8)

March 6 Monday
Kin and kith: If a man does not hold dear the well-being
of parents, kin, dependants, and himself,
what good is his living in the world of men?
A crow too lives long eating ritual offerings (1-11)
March 7 Tuesday
Scurvy: Easily filled is a tiny stream
easily filled the cupped paws of a mouse
easily pleased a scurvy fellow;
he gives thanks for crumbs (1-14)
March 8 Wednesday
Effort and Conduct: By no man’s smile is any many raised high;
frown is any man cast down;
By no man’s up or down, a man rises or falls in life,
by the true worth of his actions and conduct 1-18
March 9 Thursday
Virtue and Vice: With greatest effort are stones carried uphill;
and with the greatest ease do they tumble down;
so too with our own self, through Virtue and Vice 1-19
March 10 Friday
Understanding: “What is left unsaid, the learned, wise, infer
The intellect sees clearly revealed
another’s true intent and purpose,
gains knowledge from expression of face and eyes
from tone of voice, gait
from gesture and deportment 1-20

March 11 Saturday
Courtier: “A courtier in the palace should act with extreme caution;
a pupil in his teacher’s house, with respect and discretion;
Those unmannerly who do not know their place
will soon meet with extinction like oil lamps
lighted at dusk in dwellings of the poor -1-25
March 12 Sunday
Women: Kings and women and slender climbing wines
cling to whatever they find close to them
such is the way of the world 1-27
March 13 Monday
Wise: “The wise do not care to serve the King
Who cannot recognise each ones individual merit
Such service is wholly barren of all fruit
Like the tillage of a salt meadow 1-31
March 14 Tuesday
He who stands in the forefront in battle
But walks behind King in the city
Waits in the palace at the Royal chamber door
He is beloved of princes 1-35
March 15 Wednesday
He who looks upon dice as Deaths messenger
And drink as Deadly Poison
Who sees other men’s wives simply as forms
He is beloved of princes 1-44

March 16 Thursday
If the master gets angry, his man bends low
Sings his praise, extols at his largesse
Hates his foes, dotes on those who he favours,
That is the sure way to win someone over
Without recourse to magical arts 1-53
March 17 Friday
Even a worthless bit of straw comes in handy
For the great ones to pick their teeth or scratch their ears
What today then of the service a person
Endowed with speech and limbs can render, O King 1-58
March 18 Saturday
A fine gem fit to grace a gold jewel,
If mounted in a cheap tin setting
Does not scream, nor refuses to gleam
It is the jeweller who is put to shame 1-63
March 19 Sunday
In a place where no difference is perceived
Between a priceless gem with eye of fire
And a fragment of pale crystal
How can a gem trade flourish there? 1-66
March 20 Monday
Shaping: A horse, a weapon, a text, a lute
A voice, a man and a woman
They perform Ill, or well
According to who master’s them 1-68

March 21 Tuesday
Birth: Silk is spun by the humble worm
gold is born of rock
the lotus from the mud
ruby from the serpent’s hood
A person of merit shines
by the light of his own rising merits
of what consequence is his birth? 1-69
March 22 Wednesday
Confiding: A man might confide some things to his wife
some to his close friends, and some to his son;
these deserve his trust; but not reveal
all matters to everyone in sight 1-73
March 23 Thursday
Relief: true and tested friend, a faithful wife,
a loyal servant, a powerful master,
disclosing his troubles to these
a man discovers great relief 1-74
March 24 Friday
Son: Joyous in prosperity,
not cast down in adversity
steadfast in battle
rarely does a mother bear such a son
the ornament of the three worlds 1-79
March 25 Saturday
Sycophants: A blade of grass bends low, powerless,
tosses about, light, lacking inner strength
A man who lacks a sense of honour and pride,
is like a pitiful blade of grass -1-80

March 26 Sunday
King: As a man in perfect health
disdains all doctors and drugs
so, a king free of troubles
thinks little of his ministers 1-89
March 27 Monday
Lie: Even the smallest lie spoken before a king
has the gravest consequences;
the ruin of the speaker’s parent and teacher
and that of the gods as well 1-90
March 28 Tuesday
King is God: Blended of essences of all gods,
a king is formed; so sages sing
Look upon him, therefore, as a god
never speak an untruth to a king 1-91
March 29 Wednesday
Humility: A hurricane does not uproot the pliant grass
that bends low before its fury;
it snaps only proud, lordly trees;
A man might let his valour speak
only to others of equal might 1-93

March 30 Thursday
Ministers: A kingdom is held firm by ministers
who are tested and true, straight, resourceful,
accomplished and endowed with inner strength,
as a temple is well-supported by pillars
straight, strong, well polished and firmly grounded 1-95
March 31 Friday
Sweetness: Sweet as nectar is the fire’s warmth in winter;
Sweet as nectar is the sight one’s beloved;
Sweet as nectar is royal favour;
Sweet as nectar is food cooked in milk 1-97
Book used : The Pancatantra, translated by Chandra Rajan (Panchatantra was written by Vishnu Sarma before fifth century CE in Sanskrit)
–Subham–
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