- A wise person will come to grief if he does the unwise acts of; giving advice to a foolish pupil, looking after a woman of loose character and keeping the company of a sad one who has lost his fortune.
According to Chanakya,
Offering advice to a stupid disciple brings more harm than
doing any good. Remember the story about a sparrow and a monkey? A Sparrow once advised a foolish monkey
who was shivering in the cold to make fire from warmth. The angry monkey killed
the sparrow for daring to counsel it. Similarly sheltering a bad woman
creates a problem and bring infamy to the provider of the shelter.
Anyone who is sad because of loss a money or health is
always lamenting and cursing his ill luck. The complaining never ends. One who
keeps company to such person also catches the sadness and becomes gloomy. His
attitude becomes negative and he begins slipping down in his own work or
profession. Besides, listening to the sad one’s constant complaints results in
terrible loss of time who has sympathetic ears for others often get cheated,
tricked into lending money or gets dragged into some misadventure which results
in his becoming another sad one.
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