Sunday 28 October 2012

To day's Subhashit.

यथा एकेन हस्तेन तालिका न संप्रपद्यते
तथोद्द्यम परित्यक्तं कर्मं नोत्पाद्यते फलं

Yathaa ekena hastena taalika na samprapadyate.
Tathoddyama parityaktam karmam notpaadyate phalam.

i.e.     Just as with the palm of only one hand  no body can do clapping, similarly any task done without making strenuous and sincere effort can not produce the desired result.

Yathaa = for instance, just as.         Ekena =  by one.     Hastena =  palm of a hand.
Taalika = a clap made by striking  palms of both hands to applaud.     Na = not.
Samprapdyate = achieved, produced.    Tathoddyama = Tatha + uddyam.
Tathaa - similarly.   Uddyam = sincere and strenuous efforts made to achieve an objective. Boldness and willingness to try new line of action.
Parityaktam =  leaving, abandoning.       Karma = doing a job.     Notpaadayate = na + utpaadyate.
Utpaadayate  = produces.      Phalam = final result,  also a fruit.

(The Subhashit emphasises that any work done without proper enterprise , i.e.boldness and willingness to try a new line of action, does not produce the desired result. There is another saying in Sanskrit - उद्यमे नास्ति दारिद्रम्  -(udyame naasti daridram) i.e. an enterprising person can never be  poor, which also emphasises the spirit of enterprise.)

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