A whip for a fool, and a rod for a school (Post No.2590)

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31 Golden Sayings on DISCIPLINE in this month’s calendar

 

March, 2016 Good Thoughts Calendar

 

Compiled by london swaminathan

Date: 2 March,2016

 

Post No. 2590

 

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Festivals in March, 2016: 7- Mahasivaratri, 9- Solar Eclipse, 14- Karadaiyan Nonbu, 22-Holi, 23- Panguni Uttaram, 25- Good Friday,27- Easter Sunday, 28- Easter Monday

 

 

 

Auspicious Days: 6, 10, 11, 18, 25

 

Full Moon/Purnima- 22/23

 

New Moon/Amavasya- 8/9

 

Ekadasi Fasting Days: 5, 19

 

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March 1 Tuesday

Corn is cleansed with wind, and soul with chastenings.

 

March 2 Wednesday

Reward and punishment are the walls of a city.

 

March 3 Thursday

He that corrects not small faults, will not control great ones.

 

March 4 Friday

The best horse needs breaking, and the aptest child needs teaching.

 

March 5 Saturday

It is the bridle and spur that makes a good horse.

 pasupathinath,nepal

March 6 Sunday

A boisterous horse must have a rough bridle

 

March 7 Monday

The plough goes not well if the ploughman hold it not.

 

 

March 8 Tuesday

Rule youth well, and age will rule itself

 

March 9 Wednesday

Give me a child for seven years, and you may do what you like with him afterwards.

 

March 10 Thursday

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

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March 11 Friday

A (spoilt) child may have too much of his mother’s blessing.

 

March 12 Saturday

Give a child while he craves and a dog while his tail doth wave

And you will have a fair dog, but a foul knave.

 

March 13 Sunday

A pitiful mother makes scabby (nasty) daughter.

 

March 14 Monday

Dawted (spoilt) daughters make daidling (lazy) wives.

 

March 15 Tuesday

A blate (bashful) cat makes a proud mouse.

 

 

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March 16 Wednesday

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

 

March 17 Thursday

A whip for a fool, and a rod for a school, is always in good season.

 

March 18 Friday

A woman, a dog and a walnut tree, the more you beat them the better they be – English proverb.

 

March 19 Saturday

He that is sick of a fever lurden (laziness), must be cured by hazel gelding.

 

March 20 Sunday

You may ding (beat) the devil into a wife, but you will never ding (beat) him out of her.

 

holi,ht

March 21 Monday

Happy is he that chastens himself.

 

March 22 Tuesday

He that is master of himself, will soon be master of others.

 

March 23 Wednesday

He is not fit to command others that cannot command himself.

 

March 24 Thursday

He gets a double victory, who conquers himself.

 

March 25 Friday

One eye of the master sees more than ten of the servants.

 

 

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March 26 Saturday

The master’s footsteps fatten the soil, and his foot the ground.

 

March 27 Sunday

A sleepy master makes his servant a lout.

 

 

March 28 Monday

The rod breaks no bones.

 

March 29 Tuesday

Spaniels that fawn when beaten, will never forsake their masters.

 

March 30 Wednesday

Never take the tawse (Scottish leather strap used to punish people) when a word will do the turn.

 

March 31 Thursday

He that cockers (spoils) his child provides for his enemy.

 sivaya nama

–subham-

 

 

28 Beautiful Quotes on Truth!

Happy-Mahashivratri-

Calendar of Golden Sayings – February 2015

 

Post No. 1606; Dated 27th January 2015.

Compiled by london swaminathan

 

Important Dates: Feb. 3 Thai Pusam, 17 Maha Shivaratri

Full Moon day- Fe3; New Moon (Amavasya)- Feb.18

Ekadasi –Feb.15.Auspicious Days:2, 5,8,9, 11, 15, 22.

Quotes are taken from Suktisudha, Chinmya International Foundation and Tamil book Tirukkural

February  1 Sunday

 

Truthfulness supercedes a thousand horse sacrifices – Hitopadesa 4-136; Padma Purana 5-18-43

asvamedha sahasraaddhi satyameva atiricyate

 

February 2 Monday

 

Experts on the science of righteousness aver that truth is the ultimate Dharma — Valmiki Ramayana 2-14-3

Aahuh satyam hi paramam dharmam dharmavido janah

February 3 Tuesday

 

It is not praiseworthy to adopt wrong means ever for accomplishing good things- Jataka Mala

Kaaryaarthamapi na sreyah saatyaapanayah kramah


batu caves

Thai Pusam is a big festival in Malysia (in praise of Lord Skanda)

February 4 Wednesday

 

One can’t determine truth from falsehood sans enquiry Kahavat Ratnakar p164

gavesanaam vinaa naiva satya asatya vinirnayah

February 5 Thursday

 

Righteousness flourishes with truth Manu Smrti 8-83

Dharmah satyena vardhate

 

February 6 Friday

 

Though difficult, the upright do not like to forsake truth – Jataka Mala

na hi krcchrepi santyaktum satyamicchanti saadhavah

 

February 7 Saturday

 

Speech which causes no harm whatsoever to anyone is what is called truth — Tamil Couplet from Tirukkural, 291

 

February  8 Sunday

 

It it will produce pure, unmixed good, even falsehood may be considered truth — Tirukkural, 292


PerayaanThaipusam

February 9 Monday

If a man should utter a lie consciously, his own mind would torture him for the lie uttered -Tirukkural, 293

February 10 Tuesday

One who is true in thought and word is greater  even those who perform Tapas (penance) and do charity — Tirukkural, 295

February 11 Wednesday

 

If a man could conduct himself true  to his own self  he would be in the heart of all in the world –Tirukkural, 294

February 12 Thursday

Those, whose lives are based on truth, remain immortal – Pancharatra 3-25

mrte api naraah sarve satye tisthanti tisthati

 

February 13 Friday

who is apable of overpowering truth? Katha Sarit Sagara

satyam kascaativartate

singapore

Thai Pusam (full moon day) in Singapore

February 14 Saturday

Tell the truth, practise Dharma Taiitiriyopanishad

 

satyma vada, dharmam cara

 

February  15 Sunday

 

Outward purity may be secured by the use of wateer. Inward purity of the heart comes from truthfulness.- Tirukkural, 298

 

February16  Monday

 

Utter words anointed by truth Manu Smrti 6-46

satyapuutaam vadedvaaniim

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February 17 Tuesday

 

Truth alone triumphs, never falsehood — Mundaka Upanishad 3-1-6

Satyameva jayate naanrtam

 

February 18 Wednesday

In Kaliyuga, the truthful suffer and the hypocritical flourish– Kahavat Ratnakar,  p 2204

satyavaktaa kalau duhkhi  mithyaavaadii pramodate

 

February 19 Thursday

 

The celestials are truth bound Brhat Katha Manjari

satyavaaco hi khecaraah

 

February 20 Friday

 

Everything is established in truth – Canakya Niti 2-28

sarvam satye pratisthitam

 

February 21  Saturday

The noble prefer death to falsehood – Bharata Manjari 1-12-463

saadhuunaammaranam sreyah na satyaviplavah

batu

Batu Caves, Skanda-Kartikeya- Murugan Temple, Malaysia

February  22 Sunday

 

No fear for one who lives truth – Kahavat Ratnakar, p 208

satye nassti bhayam kvacit

 

February 23 Monday

 

Truth is the tresure of the honourable Ramayana Manjari 6-26-816

satyam vittam hi maaninaam

 

February 24 Tuesday

 

All lamps are of no avail. The light of truth is the only is the only lamp which the wise cherish- Tirukkural, 299

February 25 Wednesday

 

In all true scriptures we have known, nothing is  praised so highly as truthfulness– Tirukkural, 300

February 26 Thursday

 

If one could safeguard oneself agaist flinching from truth one need  practise no other virtue — Tirukkural, 297


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February 27 Friday

Utter the truth, yet utter it pleasantly, and utter not an unpleasant truth Manu Smrti 4-138

satyam bruuyaat priyam bruuyaat na bruuyaat satyam apriyam

 

February 28 Saturday

 

Truth is the supreme Dharma – Sanskrit saying

satyam hi paramo dharmah


pusam

March 1 Sunday


(From January 2013, Every monthly sheet carries quotes from Tamil and Sanskrit Literature. So far 800 quotations are published. They are arranged subject wise — swami_48@yahoo.com)