the strategy should be target-specific..

the strategy should be target-specific..

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मित्रं स्वच्छतया रिपुं नयबलैर्लुब्धं धनैरीश्वरं।

कार्येण द्विजमादरेण युवतिं प्रेम्णा समैर्बान्धवं॥

अत्युग्रं स्तुतिभिर् गुरुं प्रणतिभिर्मूर्खं कथाभिर्बुधं।

विद्याभी रसिकं रसेन सकलम् शीलेन कुर्याद्वशं॥

mitraṁ svacchatatayā ripuṁ nayabalairlubdhaṁ dhanairīśvaraṁ|

kāryeaṇa dvijamādareṇa yuvatiṁ premṇā samairbāndhavaṁ||

atyugraṁ stutibhir gururṁ praṇatibhirmūrkhaṁ kathābhirbhudhaṁ|

vidyābhī rasikaṁ rasena sakalam śīlena kuryādvaśaṁ||

हितोपदेशम्

hitopadeśam

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A quote from Hitopadesham..

In Sanskrit literature the parables and small stories of Hitopadesham, interspersed with wise slokas too.. is considered great.. almost on equal footing with Panchantantram..

The work is placed to the 9th or 10 th century of CE,, and the author is one Narayana Kavi..

This is a case where the work is very famous, but very little is known about it historically.. Some scholars place it to the terrain of Nepal..

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Meaning of the slokam with comments

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One can always maintain intimacy with a bosom friends by being just natural.

With appropriate strategy and show of strength one can keep his enemy at bay.

A miser can be kept pleased only by supply of more funds,( so also every officer or superintendent)

One's favourite God can be propitiated through service ( to all humans).

A beautiful young lady can be made happy through romance (not for old uncles like me....I just quote hitopadesam).

One's relatives will be happy if one shows the sense of equality and identify with them. We lose many close relations by flaunting our own so called status.

For the parents we are just the sons and daughters and for the siblings we are only brothers or sisters.( for them does it make any difference that you are a top bureaucrat or a stinkingly rich businessman?)

To keep a ferocious being away from attacking us is only through vocal praise in place or out of place ( the ferocious thing can appear in so many forms....wife, boss. mother in law, to cite a few examples) .

The only way the preceptor can be kept happy is by prostrating at his feet (it will do more good to the disciple than the teacher..especially when the disciple is prostrating just to pull the master down).

The learned person will be pleased when one shares his knowledge and erudition with humility. .

One can keep an inveterate idiot in happiness only by engaging him with silly talk.

A connoisseur in fine arts will be pleased when the art is performed to perfection.

And everyone in the world will be pleased with one's good manners and character.