Source: # Highest Among All Gifts — Manusmriti 4.233 *Among all gifts (water, food, cows, land, clothing, sesame, gold and ghee), the gift of sacred knowledge stands highest.* सर्वेषामेव दानानां ब्रह्मदानं विशिष्यते । वार्यन्नगोमहीवासस्तिलकाञ्चनसर्पिषाम् ॥ *sarvesham eva dananam brahma-danam vishishyate | vary-anna-go-mahi-vasas-tila-kancana-sarpisham || How to say it: sar-ve-SHAAM e-va daa-NAA-naam brah-ma-DAA-nam vi-shi-SHYA-te. vaa-ry-an-na-go-ma-HEE-vaa-sas ti-la-kaan-cha-na-sar-pi-SHAAM.* Among all gifts (water, food, cows, land, clothing, sesame, gold and ghee), the gift of sacred knowledge stands highest. The list is the whole menu of ancient charity: water, grain, cattle, land, cloth, sesame, gold, clarified butter. Knowledge is placed above all of them. Brahma here means the Veda, the sacred teaching; later teachers widened the idea to any knowledge that frees or heals. [All 35 chapters](https://vedant.myadvisorfriend.com/chapters/) · [183 stories from real life](https://vedant.myadvisorfriend.com/stories/) · [61 Hindu shloks for the mind](https://vedant.myadvisorfriend.com/shlokas/) · [Psychology for Everyone – A Mental Well Being Series](https://vedant.myadvisorfriend.com/) [myadvisorfriend@gmail.com](mailto:myadvisorfriend@gmail.com) · [Contact](https://vedant.myadvisorfriend.com/contact/) · [About](https://vedant.myadvisorfriend.com/about/) · [Privacy](https://vedant.myadvisorfriend.com/privacy/) · [Disclaimer](https://vedant.myadvisorfriend.com/disclaimer/) --- *Psychology for Everyone – A Mental Well Being Series* by Satish Zope · free to read · Contact: [myadvisorfriend@gmail.com](mailto:myadvisorfriend@gmail.com) · [About](https://vedant.myadvisorfriend.com/about/) · [Privacy](https://vedant.myadvisorfriend.com/privacy/) · [Disclaimer](https://vedant.myadvisorfriend.com/disclaimer/)