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What is holding you back? | Arthashastra 270



कोहि भार: समर्थानां किं दूरं व्यवसायिनाम्।

को विदेश सुविद्यानां को पर: प्रियवादिनाम् ।।

Kohi Bhaarah Samarthaanaam Kim dooram Vyavsaayinaam |

Ko Videsh Suviddyaanaam Koparah Priyavaadinaam ||


Nothing is burdensome for a competent person. No place is far off for a trader, No land is a foreign strand for the scholar and no one is stranger for a man with a sweet tongue.

A competent person knows how to solve his problem so nothing is burdensome for him. For the trader no place is far off if he can get the right price for his merchandise. The learned man or the scholar, by dint of his learning, knows how to get settle in any land. And, how can anybody be stranger for the person who has a sweet tongue? Sweet speech makes even the most die-hard enemy, one’s friend, let alone a stranger who bears no animus for anyone.


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