Rules for Life
One word spoken in anger, my boy,
and you pay interest on it for life.
Rules 1 – 11
Mental Gym Books · Part 1
Thathagari Niyamalu
తాతగారి నియమాలు
Grandfather's Rules · Eight Evenings on the Porch
A ten-year-old boy, his eighty-year-old grandfather, an old village porch and a new notebook. Eight evenings, sixty-eight rules for life.
What our elders told us long ago, and what science is confirming today.
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Rule 01
One word spoken in anger, my boy,
and you pay interest on it for life.
68 rules like this one, each with a story, a verse and a piece of research behind it.
Why this book?
Take in the experience of your elders, and you add the strength of a whole second life to your own.
Our grandparents lived full lives. They saw hardship and loss, victories and defeats. What they tell us isn't preaching. It's experience.
This book brings that experience to you as stories and classical verses, set alongside today's psychology research.
What's inside?
Every page, a lesson
68
68 rules60 Thatha garu rules, plus 8 bonus rules you will only find in this book.8
8 evenings, 8 storiesA bullock cart, the weekly market, a mango tree, lamplight, the temple pond, the village tank spilling over...✦
Sources includedVemana, the Sumati Shatakam, Chanakya and the Bhagavad Gita, side by side with the modern research that says the same thing.8
8 Mental Gym RepsAt the end of every evening, a week-long workout for your mind.✎
Chinna's notebook pagesEach evening's rules on a single page, to keep and to share.16
16 colour illustrationsThe porch, the village, Thatha garu and Chinna. A picture for every evening.8 chapters
Eight evenings
Words, trust, worldly wisdom, selfishness, intelligence, envy, silence and money.
Trust
Think a hundred times before you trust someone, my boy.
Once you do, never doubt them, not even once.
Rules 12 – 16
Loukyam: Worldly Wisdom
Loukyam isn't trickery, my boy.
It's knowing what to say, to whom,
when, and how much.
Rules 17 – 21
Selfishness
Thinking about yourself
isn't selfish, my boy.
Thinking only about yourself
is.
Rules 22 – 28
Intelligence
Knowing what you know,
and knowing what you don't.
That, my boy,
is real intelligence.
Rules 29 – 39
Envy
"He just got lucky, that's all."
Those words, my boy,
are the first language envy speaks.
Rules 40 – 45
Silence
Shutting your mouth
isn't silence, my boy.
Real silence is when the mind
stops shouting inside.
Rules 46 – 51
Money
There's nothing wrong with
talking about money, my boy.
Both dharma and comfort
stand on it.
Rules 52 – 60
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తాతగారి నియమాలు · Part 1
Bharath KP · 151-page e-book in Telugu (PDF)
- 68 rules, 8 stories and 8 Mental Gym Reps
- Vemana, the Sumati Shatakam, Chanakya, the Bhagavad Gita and modern research
- 16 colour illustrations and Chinna's notebook pages
- Read it on your phone, tablet or computer
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About the author
Bharath KP is the creator of Mental Gym, which brings psychology, neuroscience and Indian philosophy to Telugu readers in their own language, through their own stories. On YouTube and Instagram it has reached thousands of Telugu readers.
His belief, in one line: the mind is a muscle, and daily practice makes it stronger. And the best coaches for that practice are already in our homes: our elders.
One life isn't enough to learn everything, my boy. That's why we learn from the lives of our elders.Buy the book · ₹49