Types of Person as per Vidura

Vidura described five basic reasons for insomnia (Who will not able to sleep). He given below situations for any person that may cause insomnia:

1) A thief
2) A lustful person
3) A person who has lost all his wealth
4) A person who has failed to achieve success
5) A person who is weak and has been attacked by a strong person.

Vidura said Manu has spoken about 17 types of persons who hits empty space with their fists, or try to bend the rainbow in the sky, or to catch the rays of the Sun. They are

1) To attempt to control the people who are uncontrollable

2) Who is contented with small gains

3) Who pays court to enemies

4) Who attempts to control frailty of women

5) Who asks gifts from whom he should never ask

6) Who boasts just for anything

7) Who is born in high family doing improper actions

8) A weak doing hostilities with a powerful man

9) Who talks to a person who listens mockingly

10) Who desires for any attainable thing,

11) A father-in-law looking at his daughter-in-law with lust

12) Who boasts at his alarms dispelled by his daughter-in-law

13) Who scatters his own seeds in another's field

14) Who speaks ill of his own wife

15) Who does not remember receiving something from others,

16) Who has given something in words in holy places

17) Who tries to prove the false as true. All these persons go to Hell