Panchatantra ~The Book of Wisdom {On Security}

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"The Panchatantra" is a Timeless Ancient Hindu Sanskrit Text that embodies Wisdom, and the Art of Living in the true sense of the world. Its sheer brilliance has impressed many a learned Westerner as it has a majority of Indians. Interestingly, it was perhaps the FIRST book to be ever printed by the Germans (1480 AD) who invented printing technology. There are a multitude of translations of this ancient Sanskrit work in almost every language of the world!

I present to you one of the English Translations by Arthur W Ryder pondering on the news of the day

Panchatantra Verbatim

In houses where no snakes are found.
One sleeps; or where the snakes are bound:
But perfect rest is hard to win
With serpents bobbing out and in.

The mere negative foundation of security requires a considerable exercise of intelligence, since the world swarms with rascals, and no sensible man can imagine them capable of reformation.

Caress a rascal as you will.
He was and is a rascal still:
All salve- and sweating-treatments fail
To take the kink from doggy's tail.

Yet roguery can be defeated; for by its nature it is stupid.

Since scamp and sneak and snake
So often undertake
A plan that does not thrive,
The world wags on, alive.

Having made provision for security, in the realization that

A man to thrive
Must keep alive!

Credits

Credits for English translation: Arthur W. Ryder

Full text of the English translation of the Panchatantra:

https://archive.org/details/Panchatantra_Arthur_W_Ryder

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