Random musings - part 5
If an effort is made to
learn the alphabets first followed by words and then sentences, one may not
attain proficiency in the language even in next birth!
We have to learn like an
infant!
वर्णात्पदं ततो वाक्यं भाषाज्ञानं भवेत्तथा ।
क्लृप्तिर्नैव तु सिध्येत जन्मान्तरेपि सर्वथा ।। 41 ।।
If the rich are annoyed
because of beggars and other seekers, what is to be said about Gods, who are
begged upon by even the rich as well!
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खिन्नाश्चेत् धनिकाः लोके याचितृभिश्च भिक्षुकैः ।
किं पुनरिह देवानां याच्यन्ते ये तु तैरपि ।। 42 ।।
Man is unpredictable. He
has the tendency to behave like other beings as well. That means man-ness or
man-hood, if the nature of being man may be called so, is a mixture of so many
genera (jati as we call)
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सर्वभूतस्वभावी त्वं कदा कथं प्रवर्तसे ।
न जाने धिक् मनुष्यत्वम् अनेकजातिसड़्करः ।। 43 ।।
Man! You possess the
nature of all beings! Can't say when you will behave like what. Otherwise the
Genus of man is a mixture of many genera! Shame upon you! Interestingly there
is a group of people who argue that men should not compared to animals; men are
too mean!
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Though the good aspects
also present themselves I am tuned to spot the bad ones (only)! Hey moon! The
king of stars! Beautiful! Complete and cold! (Yet) You do not deserve to be
looked upon for long, by me, a faultfinder!
तारापते! मनोहारिन्! परिपूरित! शीतल! ।
द्रष्टुमर्हसि नैव त्वं दोषज्ञेन मया चिरम् ।। 44 ।।
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Where indeed does this
dosha come from when I see things? Or maybe it is just firmly placed in the
middle of my pure eye (the eye ball that is dark in colour :-))
दोषो हि कुत आयाति मम च वस्तुदर्शने ।
स्यात् स एव स्थितो मध्ये सम्यक् तु शुद्धदर्शने ।। 45 ।।
दर्शनं means both the eye and sight.
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Without making noise do
trees flower and bear fruits - just like noble people who quietly serve others!
फलन्ति चापि पुष्प्यन्ति तरवस्तु विना रवम् ।
सन्ति प्रदानवेलायां नूनं सत्पुरुषा इव ।। 46 ।।
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Very few are perpetual
offenders - they create an opportunity to commit vice. Very very few are
perpetual non-offenders - even when an opportunity presents itself they will
not commit an offence! The rest, I think, have fallen when an opportunity
presented itself. They may either slip to the first group or stay as such!
यद्यस्ति चावशिष्टं मे दुष्कर्मचक्रवर्तिनः ।
अलब्धावसरं तद्धि कृपया किल ते हरे ।। 47 ।।
If there is some wrong
doing left undone by me, the emperor of offenders, it is because of lack of
opportunity and that is indeed due to your grace Hari! The word दुष्कर्मचक्रवर्तिनः can also mean who is
caught in a vicious circle due to bad deeds!
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The Sun is always shining
yet there is darkness on earth due to its svarupa or form (spherical)! Also due
to the presence of mountains!
Likewise, though God is
omnipresent (and as antaryami as well) and so is his grace, I am ignorant due
to the dosha of my own svarupa (nature)!
भाति भास्वति नित्यं च भूमौ तमस्तु वर्तते ।
तद्धि स्वरूपदोषेण मयि चापि हरौ सति ।। 48 ।।
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Some people are talented
naturally. Others have to learn by sweating it out!
Even if someone is not
talented (no kalaa) he or she should keep on learning from the learned. Some
day one may become glorious and shine in the front! The moon, though without a
single kalaa or digit (on new moon day) becomes full sometimes and rises in the
East (just like the Sun!).
स्वयं भवेत् कलाहीनः शिक्षेत सूरिणस्सदा ।
चन्द्रस्तु सकलो भूत्वा कदाप्युदेति पूर्वतः ।। 49 ।।
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There are many forms of
life and there may be differences among them in the name of jati (species) etc etc.
But somethings are common like motherhood. We can observe it in all species from
insects to birds to mammals to humans! A mother is a mother!
जात्यादिभिन्नभूतेषु सन्तु भेदास्तु केचन ।
तेषु न भिद्यते किन्तु काचन मातृता यथा ।। 50 ।।
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