Shukra nities (Rules)
1) The mere mention of a woman's name delights a person and his thoughts are filled with lust, then why not by looking at a beautiful woman who makes her eyebrows dance
2) Why not a woman, who is clever enough to have her food alone, who talks softly and delightfully, who can taunt affectionately, will capture the heart of any man
3) The lust for 'other women' has caused destruction to many men like Indra, Dandakya, Nahusha and ravana
4) king should never have lust for 'other women', should never have greed for 'other's wealth', should never give punishment to his subject in anger because 'Lust', 'Greed' and 'Anger' are the causes for downfall
5) One should not clean his nostrils by inserting fingers in it, should not draw lines on the earth suddenly or should not dig the earth. One should not scratch his head.
6) One must not be indifferent towards his wife, his son, diseases, servants, domestic animals, wealth, knowledge and studies and doing service to a gentleman for a moment. One must always take care of them.
7) One should accept the good qualities of even the enemies and should salute him but on the other hand even if his teacher has bad qualities, he should reject them
8) A misadventurist, who tries to do any work in a haste without giving much thought, and without knowing the consequences, gets only sorrow either because of the work itself or because of the consequences of that work
9) A man who is under the influence and control of women, who is a debtor, struck by extreme poverty, a demander without any quality and wealth- such a man is worse than a dead man, though being alive
10) One should maintain secrecy of his age, wealth, demerits of his home, Hymn (mantra), copulation, medicine, charity, respect and disrespect i.e. he should never tell others of these nine things
11) In this world, no one is a Brahmin, a warrior caste, a caste doing trading/business and low caste by birth but on the basis of quality (sanskar) and deeds and actions (Karma)
12) One who cleverly protects his subjects, is brave, has control over his senses and whose nature is to punish the wrong doers is called a Kshatriya.
13) One who is efficient in purchasing and selling daily earns his livelihood by his business, one who does animal husbandry and farming are called Vaishya in this world
14) A man is capable or incapable of doing good or evil in his present life according to the Karmas done in his previous birth that is if he has done evil Karmas or good Karmas in his previous birth, then his mind will change accordingly in his present birth and will do good or evil Karmas to face its consequences
15) The mind changes as soon as the time comes to face the consequences of the Karmas. As the destiny is, accordingly one gets friends (good or evil)
16) All the actions of the world are based on destiny and labour(Karma), actions committed in the previous birth are destiny and actions committed in this life are called PURUSHARTHA. Thus KARMAS have been differentiated in two ways whichever of the two (Bhagya and Karma) is powerful forces the other to surrender. The strength cannot be identified merely by analyzing the results of the Karma or by any other means
17) It would not have been possible to destroy the evils and evil doers if the destiny was unchangeable that is Karma (labour) can change even the Bhagya (destiny)
18) If the destiny is unfavourable then the most virtuous of actions gives bad results just like the king Bali who was tied up even after being so charitable and Harishchandra had to serve a MLECHA, even after being a Truthful man
19) Good actions give good results and evil actions give bad results, so one must accept good action give bad results, so one must accept good actions and reject evil actions as described in the scriptures