right place, right son, right spouse and right disciple

 

कुदेशमासाद्य कुतोऽर्थस्ञ्चयः कुपुत्रमासाद्य कुतो जलाञ्जलिः।

कुगेहिनीं प्राप्य कुतो गृहे सुखं कुशिष्यमद्यापयतः कुतो यशः॥

चाणक्य 

 kudeśamāsādya kuto'rthasñcayaḥ kuputramāsādya kuto jalāñjaliḥ|

kugeihinīṁ prāpya kuto gṛhe sukhaṁ kuśiṣyamadyāpayataḥ kuto yaśaḥ||

cāṇakya as quoted in a ġerman compilation ṣanksrit ḻesebec

An ever-relevant string of queries from the Master Chanakya. We know Chanakya was a great Minister, Politician and administrator, and a revered teacher too. Of course, we do not have any idea how his performance in the domestic front was, because we do not have any literature available on that issue.

Chanakya asks

If a person has chosen a region or state that is dangerously full of ruffians, wayward people who have lost all sense of propriety, how can he exist peacefully, further his business or profession, and earn his livelihood?

If one is having an evil-minded brute with no manners and with no character as his son, then how can he look forward to receive his final water oblations from that fellow. The son, if he is alive after the father would not care to do the last rites. Moreover, in many cases, other people would have already handled and finished the fellow even prior to the demise of the father.

If one has chosen to land up in a wedlock with a shrew, a violent monstrous life partner, then how can he have peace, harmony and comfort at home?

And

If as a teacher or Acharya, he had the misfortune of having accepted and idiot or moron as a disciple, how can he earn good name and fame? The greatness and talents of the teacher should reveal itself to the world through the dignified behaviour and exhibition of rich knowledge by the student who grew under the master’s tutelage. If the disciple is an imbecile that will eternally reflect on the Acharya too.

Yes, these interjections are ever relevant.

K v a

कुदेशं a bad, disturbed land filled with wayward citizens आसाद्य havei reached and inhabited अर्थसञ्चयः कुतः how can one further his profession profitably and earn and accumulate wealth ?

कुपुत्रं a son who is bad, without manners, and without character आसाद्य having been forced to rear जलाञ्जलिः कुतः how are you going to receive your final water oblations after you depart ?

कु गेहिनीं nasty, shrew-like, monstrous, wife प्राप्य having joined in wedlock गृहे कुतः सुखं how can you have any peace and comfort in your home ?

कुशिष्यं having accepted and taught or still attempting to teach an idiot, imbecile, moron आसाद्य having come by यशः कुतः how can you, or the teacher ever get any name or fame or any benefit