Philosophy of Chanakya captured on slides.

2.  Chanakya was an ancient teacher / trainer from
India who transformed one of his students
“Chandragupta Maurya” as a great king from
scratch.
 Chanakya had also played the role of a
strategic leader to ensure defeat of Alexander
when the latter had attacked India.
 Chanakya has shared his knowledge and
philosophies through his huge literatures which
mainly include thebooks popularly known as
“Chanakya Niti” and“Kautilya’s Arthashastra”.

3.  Chanakya Neeti’s particularly the social ethics
deals with several aspects like parenting,
child rearing, servants, friendship love
,responsibilities of teachers, education,
wisdom and social responsibilities.

4.  There are many a bondage but that of love
is entirely different. The black-bee which
penetrates thoughts even wood gets inertly
enclosed in th efold of the lotus flowers.

5.  God abode is not the idols of wood stone or
earth. He dwells only in feelings.
 Anger is death, lust is Vaitarani (the river of
hell), knowledge is the cow of plenty and
satisfaction is (the divine orchard)
Nandanvan.

6.  A person should not be too honest. Straight
trees are cut first.
 Once you start working on something, don’t
be afraid and don’t abandon it. People who
work sincerely are the happiest.

7.  As soon as fear approaches near, attack and
destroy it.
 Treat your kid like a darling for the first five
years, For next five year, scold them. By the
time they turn sixteen, treat them like a
friend.
 Education is the best friend. An educated
person is respected everywhere. Education
beats the beauty and youth.

8.  Before you start work, always ask yourself 3
questions
- Why I am doing it?
- What the results might be?
- Will I be successful ?
Only when you find satisfactory answers, go
ahead.

9. NEETI FOR PRAYER
Devotion in faith, sweetness in voice, alacrity in alms – giving
guilelessness in relation with friends, humility for guru,
depth in the character, piety in behaviour, regard for merit,
erudition in scriptural knowledge, beauty in appearance and
belief in god are your attributes
God dwells in our bodies life fragrance in flowers, oil in oil seeds,
fire in wood ghee in milk, jaggery in the sugarcane.
The wise should understand this.

10.  All riches, vitality, life and body are fickle
and fey : Only dharma is constant and ever
lasting,
 Constantly bound by death, all power and
pelf are fey. Hence one should adhere to
one’s dharma which is everlasting.

11.  Like a calf finds the mother – cow even if
there be thousands of cows, so the
consequence of an action searches its doer
unerringly i.e. One cant escape the
consequence of an action do whatever one
may.
 Man himself does action and himself bears
its consequences. Himself he roams about in
the world and himself gets liberated from
this cycle of birth and death.

12.  Man is free to act but he must bear its
consequences, whether good or bad. It is
only his balance sheet of the action and its
consequence has been set at naught that he
become liberated. Hence to achieve this
liberation is also well within the control of
man.

13.  Age, profession , financial status, level of
education and death – these five basic
parameters of human life are ordained when
the being is in the embryonic form.

14.  Wealth will slip away from the foolish
person, who continuously consults the stars,
for wealth is the star of wealth; what will
the stars do ?
 Capable men will certainly secure wealth at
least after hundred trails.

15.  A trainable person is the one with the
following qualities,
- Desire to learn
- Effective listening
- Ability to reflect
- Ability to reject false views
- Intentness on truth not on any person

16.  SAMA – CONCILIATION
 DANA – OFFER GIFTS
 BHEDA – CAUSE DISSENSION
 DANDA - PUNISHMENT

17.  After ascertaining the relative strength or
weakness of powers, place, time, revolts in
rear, losses, expenses, gains & troubles, of
himself and of the enemy, the conqueror
should march.

18.  No gift is better than the gift of cereal and
water, no date is better than Dwadashi, no
mantra is greater than gayatri mantra and no
god is better than mother.
 The one who produces you, the one who
gets your Upanayan ceremony performed,
the one who gives you education, the one
who gives you food and the one who protects
you from all sort of danger – these five
persons deserves the status of father.

19.  Like fish, tortoise and bird rear up their
infants by looking, caring and touching them
respectively, so does good company with
respect to human being.
 A good company generates the noble
elements in the nature of the wicked but a
bad or wicked company does not generate
wickedness in the noble person. It is only the
soil which accepts the fragrance of the
flowers and not the fragrance, which refuses
to accept the odour of the soil

20.  Control over the senses, which are motivated by
training in the science, should be secured by
giving up lust, anger, greed, pride, arrogance and
overexcitement.
 If the king is energetic, his subjects will be
equally energetic. If he is slack, his subjects will
also be lazy, thereby eating into his wealth.
 Success is threefold-that attainable by the power
of counsel is success by counsel, that attainable
by power of might is success by might, that
attainable by power of energy is success by
energy.

21.  “The enemies should not come to know of his
secrets; he should, however, find out the
weakness of the enemy. He should conceal as
a tortoise does his limbs, any limb of his own
that may have become exposed.’’
 Time comes but once to a man waiting for an
opportunity; that time is difficult for that
man to get again when he wants to do his
work.

22.  Leading - In the happiness of his people lies
the happiness of the leader. In their welfare is
his welfare. He shall not consider as good only
that which pleases him but treat as beneficial to
him what ever causes happiness to all people.
 Planning - Learn from the mistakes of others...
you can't live long enough to make them all
yourselves!!

23.  Staffing - The leader should judge the
ability of a person from his capacity of doing
work, distribute rank and position according
to the ability of persons and assign the place,
time and work to them accordingly.
 Time management - Time comes but once
to a man waiting for an opportunity, that
time is difficult for that man to get again
when he wants to do his work.

24.  Budgeting - Money earned must be spent to
keep it in circulation. Put it to good use which is
the best protective investment. The water of
pond has flow and outflow systems. That keeps
its water clean.
 The capital should not be allowed to stagnate
and remain as a dead investments. It must be
made to work by investing in good projects.
That’s how it will stay active and will grow for
the benefit of all. And it is more safe and alive
that way, similarly as the circulation keeps pond
water fresh, clean and free of germs

25. The idea which is soothing to
listen but not good in practice
should not be uttered