जीवनकला · Chapter Overview
From Chāṇakya Nīti — The Verses of Practical Wisdom, taught by Acharya T Krishnatrey. This lesson is free to read.
<pre data-block="statement">What this chapter covers | This chapter gathers self-mastery and the art of living. Its verses set the six-question situational audit to be pondered again and again before acting (4.18); warn through Sītā, Rāvaṇa, and Bali that excess destroys even virtues (3.12); show what spreads by its own power once it reaches a worthy vessel (14.5); give the fourfold daily practice of subtract, add, act, and remember (14.20); praise contentment as the nectar of peace that wealth-greed can never reach (7.3); and hold destiny and effort together — prārabdha sets the stage, puruṣārtha plays upon it (4.1).</pre>