VIDURA NEETI
5000 years ago, Vidura the chief minister and also brother of King Dhritarashtra counseled on the characteristics of wise people. Vidura seeks , by urging to king Dhritarashtra to reconsider his thoughts against the Pandavas .
In Udyoga Parva of Maha Bharata Vidura outlines so many things that wise wise should do. These tenets are famous in the name of Vidura neeti. Some such advices are here under for our own benifit:
1. The leader should wish for the prosperity of all, and should never be biased to one or the other group for his personal interests and commitment.
2.He should pay attention to those who are in distress depression or adversity. Never should he ignore the sufferings of those dependent on him, irrespective of intensity.
3.He should be impartial to the problem placed before him.
4. Agriculture is the basic need and thus seed of economy and the leader should never impede its progress by neglecting it.
5. levying of taxes should be fare and major chunk of it should be allocated to the prosperity of his subjects.
6. He should be fair and accessible to his people. Probity and Prudence are to be the eyes of the King.
7. Welfare of the subjects is his personal responsibility.
8. He should always safeguard the faculty of learning and transmission of knowledge.
9.He should encourage profit and virtue.Noble values are based on compassion, brotherhood, tolerance and respect for all, and these are the virtuous deeds.
Prosperity or otherwise go hand in hand with the deeds.
1. The leader should wish for the prosperity of all, and should never be biased to one or the other group for his personal interests and commitment.
2.He should pay attention to those who are in distress depression or adversity. Never should he ignore the sufferings of those dependent on him, irrespective of intensity.
3.He should be impartial to the problem placed before him.
4. Agriculture is the basic need and thus seed of economy and the leader should never impede its progress by neglecting it.
5. levying of taxes should be fare and major chunk of it should be allocated to the prosperity of his subjects.
6. He should be fair and accessible to his people. Probity and Prudence are to be the eyes of the King.
7. Welfare of the subjects is his personal responsibility.
8. He should always safeguard the faculty of learning and transmission of knowledge.
9.He should encourage profit and virtue.Noble values are based on compassion, brotherhood, tolerance and respect for all, and these are the virtuous deeds.
Prosperity or otherwise go hand in hand with the deeds.
10. He should avoid friendship with the sacrilegious and the sinful who are instrumental in contaminating scrupulous and assiduous guidelines of ruling the kingdom.
11. He should never misuse the treasure .
12. King should never inflict extreme or cruel punishments.
***He should only appoint those as ministers (senior positions in his staff) whom he has examined well for their history of virtue, dispositions, activity and whether they give others their due.
Vidura neethi also includes a few hundred verses with suggestions for personal development and characteristics of a wise person. For example, in Chapter 33, Vidura suggests a wise person refrains from anger, exultation, pride, shame, stupefaction and vanity.
He has reverence and faith, he is unhampered in his endeavors by either adversity or prosperity.
He believes virtue and profit can go together, exerts and acts to the best of his ability, disregards nothing.
He understands quickly, listens carefully, acts with purpose. He does not grieve for what is lost, and does not lose his sense during crisis.
He is constantly learning, he seeks enlightenment from everything he experiences.
He acts after deciding, and decides after thinking.
He neither behaves with arrogance, nor with excessive humility.
He never speaks ill of others, nor praises himself.
He does not exult in honours to himself, nor grieves at insults; he is not agitated by what others do to him just like a calm lake near river Ganges.
He understands quickly, listens carefully, acts with purpose. He does not grieve for what is lost, and does not lose his sense during crisis.
He is constantly learning, he seeks enlightenment from everything he experiences.
He acts after deciding, and decides after thinking.
He neither behaves with arrogance, nor with excessive humility.
He never speaks ill of others, nor praises himself.
He does not exult in honours to himself, nor grieves at insults; he is not agitated by what others do to him just like a calm lake near river Ganges.
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