Wealth

Poem : 701

Who knows the sign, and reads unuttered thought, the gem is he,
Of earth round traversed by the changeless sea.

Explanation :
The minister who by looking (at the king) understands his mind without being told (of it), will be a perpetual ornament to the world which is surrounded by a never-drying sea.

Poem : 702

Undoubting, who the minds of men can scan,
As deity regard that gifted man.

Explanation :
He is to be esteemed a god who is able to ascertain without a doubt what is within (one's mind).

Poem : 703

Who by the sign the signs interprets plain,
Give any member up his aid to gain.

Explanation :
The king should ever give whatever (is asked) of his belongings and secure him who, by the indications (of his own mind) is able to read those of another.

Poem : 704

Who reads what's shown by signs, though words unspoken be,
In form may seem as other men, in function nobler far is he.

Explanation :
Those who understand one's thoughts without being informed (thereof) and those who do not, may (indeed) resemble one another bodily; still are they different (mentally).

Poem : 705

By sign who knows not sings to comprehend, what gain,
'Mid all his members, from his eyes does he obtain?

Explanation :
Of what use are the eyes amongst one's members, if they cannot by their own indications dive those of another ?.

Poem : 706

As forms around in crystal mirrored clear we find,
The face will show what's throbbing in the mind.

Explanation :
As the mirror reflects what is near so does the face show what is uppermost in the mind.

Poem : 707

Than speaking countenance hath aught more prescient skill?
Rejoice or burn with rage, 'tis the first herald still!

Explanation :
Is there anything so full of knowledge as the face ? (No.) it precedes the mind, whether (the latter is) pleased or vexed.

Poem : 708

To see the face is quite enough, in presence brought,
When men can look within and know the lurking thought.

Explanation :
If the king gets those who by looking into his mind can understand (and remove) what has occurred (to him) it is enough that he stand looking at their face.

Poem : 709

The eye speaks out the hate or friendly soul of man;
To those who know the eye's swift varying moods to scan.

Explanation :
If a king gets ministers who can read the movements of the eye, the eyes (of foreign kings) will (themselves) reveal (to him) their hatred or friendship.

Poem : 710

The men of keen discerning soul no other test apply
(When you their secret ask) than man's revealing eye.

Explanation :
The measuring-rod of those (ministers) who say "we are acute" will on inquiry be found to be their (own) eyes and nothing else.