Sri Aurobindo

Translations

CWSA.- Volume 5

Part One. Translations from Sanskrit
Section Four. Bhartrihari. The Century of Life

On Wealth

Two Kinds of Loss

These things are deaths, ill-counsel ruining kings,

The son by fondling spoiled, by him the race,

Attachment, to the sage’s heart that clings,

And natural goodness marred by company base,

The Brahman by scant study unbrahminised,

Sweet shame by wine o’erthrown, by wandering long

Affection waning, friendship true unprized,

Tillage uncared, good fortune follies wrong;

But wealth in double way men may reject,

Nobly by giving, poorly by neglect.