Top 7 Bhartṛhari Quotes

Life is flowing away like water running out from a leaky vessel.

आयुः परिस्रवति भिन्नघटादिवाम्भः

Those men are good who study the good of others without regarding themselves. Those men are ordinary men who, while they benefit others, do not neglect their own interests. Those men are demons who destroy another's good for their own profit. What shall we call those who aimlessly destroy that which is another's?

The sun opens the lotuses; the moon illuminates the beds of water-lilies; the cloud pours forth its water unasked: even so the liberal of their own accord are occupied in benefiting others.

A person's ears get glorified by listening to scriptures and not by wearing ear-rings, hands are adorned by giving alms to the poor and not by wearing bracelets.

श्रोतं श्रुतेनैव न कुण्डलेन दानेन पाणिर्न तु कङ्कणेन

संपत्सु महतां चित्तं भवत्युत्पलकोमलं ।
आपत्सु च महाशैलशिलासंघातकर्कशम् ॥