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* Rama clearly outlines determining endeavours involving a little effort but yielding great results and embarking on their execution without procrastination.<ref name=":14" />

* Rama clearly outlines determining endeavours involving a little effort but yielding great results and embarking on their execution without procrastination.<ref name=":14" />

<blockquote>कच्चिद् अर्थम् विनिश्चित्य लघुमूलं महोदयम् | क्षिप्रम् आरभसे कर्तुं न दीर्घयसि राघव || २-१००-१९<ref name=":12" /><ref name=":14" /></blockquote>O, Prince! Do you, regally adorned, appear before the people on rising each morning, on the great high way?<blockquote>कच्चिद् दर्शयसे नित्यम् मनुष्याणाम् विभूषितम् | उत्थाय उत्थाय पूर्व अह्णे राज पुत्रो महा पथे || २-१००-५१</blockquote>I hope you greet your teachers, the elderly, the ascetics, the deities; the unexpected visitors, the trees standing at cross roads and all the brahmins of auspicious life and conduct.<blockquote>कच्चिद् गुरूमः च वृद्धामः च तापसान् देवता अतिथीन् | चैत्यामः च सर्वान् सिद्ध अर्थान् ब्राह्मणामः च नमस्यसि || २-१००-६१</blockquote>I hope you do not abrogate virtue by your excessive devotion to wealth or your excessive devotion to wealth or your earthly interests by your over-emphasis on religion or both your religious and secular interests by your self-indulgence in pleasure, greed and gratification of the senses<blockquote>कच्चिद् अर्थेन वा धर्मम् धर्मम् धर्मेण वा पुनः | उभौ वा प्रीति लोभेन कामेन न विबाधसे || २-१००-६२</blockquote>I hope your pursue wealth, religion and the delights of the sense dividing them all according to time, O Jewel among the victorious, the one who is conversant with the proper time and O, the bestower of boons<blockquote>कच्चिद् अर्थम् च धर्मम् च कामम् च जयताम् वर | विभज्य काले कालज्न सर्वान् भरत सेवसे || २-१००-६३</blockquote>I hope you are appointing those ministers, who are eminent incorruptible, born of the fathers and for bears of good family and who are full of integrity in matters of great importance.<blockquote>अमात्यान् उपधा अतीतान् पितृ पैतामहान् शुचीन् | श्रेष्ठान् श्रेष्ठेषु कच्चित् त्वम् नियोजयसि कर्मसु || २-१००-२६</blockquote>I hope that you consult with three or four ministers as mentioned in scriptures any proposal collectively and singly with each of them in secret.<blockquote>मन्त्रिभिस्त्वं यथोद्दिष्टैश्चतुर्भिस्त्रिभिरेव वा | कच्चित्समस्तैर्व्यस्तैश्च मन्त्रं मन्त्रयसे मिथः || २-१००-७१</blockquote>

<blockquote>कच्चिद् अर्थम् विनिश्चित्य लघुमूलं महोदयम् | क्षिप्रम् आरभसे कर्तुं न दीर्घयसि राघव || २-१००-१९<ref name=":12" /><ref name=":14" /></blockquote>

 

 

 

 

 

 

O, Prince! Do you, regally adorned, appear before the people on rising each morning, on the great high way?<blockquote>कच्चिद् दर्शयसे नित्यम् मनुष्याणाम् विभूषितम् | उत्थाय उत्थाय पूर्व अह्णे राज पुत्रो महा पथे || २-१००-५१</blockquote>I hope you greet your teachers, the elderly, the ascetics, the deities; the unexpected visitors, the trees standing at cross roads and all the brahmins of auspicious life and conduct.<blockquote>कच्चिद् गुरूमः च वृद्धामः च तापसान् देवता अतिथीन् | चैत्यामः च सर्वान् सिद्ध अर्थान् ब्राह्मणामः च नमस्यसि || २-१००-६१</blockquote>I hope you do not abrogate virtue by your excessive devotion to wealth or your excessive devotion to wealth or your earthly interests by your over-emphasis on religion or both your religious and secular interests by your self-indulgence in pleasure, greed and gratification of the senses<blockquote>कच्चिद् अर्थेन वा धर्मम् धर्मम् धर्मेण वा पुनः | उभौ वा प्रीति लोभेन कामेन न विबाधसे || २-१००-६२</blockquote>I hope your pursue wealth, religion and the delights of the sense dividing them all according to time, O Jewel among the victorious, the one who is conversant with the proper time and O, the bestower of boons<blockquote>कच्चिद् अर्थम् च धर्मम् च कामम् च जयताम् वर | विभज्य काले कालज्न सर्वान् भरत सेवसे || २-१००-६३</blockquote>I hope that you consult with three or four ministers as mentioned in scriptures any proposal collectively and singly with each of them in secret.<blockquote>मन्त्रिभिस्त्वं यथोद्दिष्टैश्चतुर्भिस्त्रिभिरेव वा | कच्चित्समस्तैर्व्यस्तैश्च मन्त्रं मन्त्रयसे मिथः || २-१००-७१</blockquote>

* Do you renounce the following failings of the Raja namely, anger, neglect of Raja Dharma, procrastination, shunning the wise, laziness, bondage of the five senses, devoting thought to the affairs of the state without seeking the advise of others (Ministers etc.).<blockquote>नास्तिक्यम् अनृतम् क्रोधम् प्रमादम् दीर्घसूत्रताम् | अदर्शनम् ज्नानवताम् आलस्यम् पन्च वृत्तिताम् || २-१००-६५

* Do you renounce the following failings of the Raja namely, anger, neglect of Raja Dharma, procrastination, shunning the wise, laziness, bondage of the five senses, devoting thought to the affairs of the state without seeking the advise of others (Ministers etc.).<blockquote>नास्तिक्यम् अनृतम् क्रोधम् प्रमादम् दीर्घसूत्रताम् | अदर्शनम् ज्नानवताम् आलस्यम् पन्च वृत्तिताम् || २-१००-६५

  “Bharata, commandments of Dharma like nature's laws, admit of no meddling ......... When Dharma’s imperatives determine legitimacy, and say, this is right and thus must you act; it’s wrong to look round for escape routes; All power, Bharata, is like poison; We need the sovereign Grace of the Lord, both to exercise power and be immune from its deadly poison; in our total submission to Dharma, there’s the sure promise of Grace; but those that rely on power alone must perish by its poison.” [p-166-167].

  “Bharata, commandments of Dharma like nature's laws, admit of no meddling ......... When Dharma’s imperatives determine legitimacy, and say, this is right and thus must you act; it’s wrong to look round for escape routes; All power, Bharata, is like poison; We need the sovereign Grace of the Lord, both to exercise power and be immune from its deadly poison; in our total submission to Dharma, there’s the sure promise of Grace; but those that rely on power alone must perish by its poison.” [p-166-167].

The above advice by Rama is of eternal value for all those who exercise political power under any system of government. The meaning is, just as those who handle electric power wear a rubber hand gloves for safety, those who exercise political power must wear the hand gloves of Dharma. The consequence of the exercise of political power disregarding Dharma would be disastrous.<ref name=":0">M.Rama Jois (2004), Trivarga, Mumbai: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan.</ref>

The above advice by Rama is of eternal value for all those who exercise political power under any system of government. The meaning is, just as those who handle electric power wear a rubber hand gloves for safety, those who exercise political power must wear the hand gloves of Dharma. The consequence of the exercise of political power disregarding Dharma would be disastrous.<ref name=":0">M.Rama Jois (2004), Trivarga, Mumbai: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan.</ref>

* Foreign Policy

* Foreign Policy

I hope that a knowledgeable man, living in your own country, a wise man, a skilled person endowed with presence of mind and the one who knows how to speak to the point, is selected as an ambassador by you.<blockquote>कच्चिज् जानपदो विद्वान् दक्षिणः प्रतिभानवान् | यथा उक्त वादी दूतः ते कृतो भरत पण्डितः || २-१००-३५</blockquote>

I hope that a knowledgeable man, living in your own country, a wise man, a skilled person endowed with presence of mind and the one who knows how to speak to the point, is selected as an ambassador by you.<blockquote>कच्चिज् जानपदो विद्वान् दक्षिणः प्रतिभानवान् | यथा उक्त वादी दूतः ते कृतो भरत पण्डितः || २-१००-३५</blockquote>