Saturday 22 December 2012

To day's Subhashit.

आलस्यस्य कुतो विद्या अविद्यस्य कुतो धनम् '
अधनस्य कुतो मित्रं अमित्रस्य कुतो सुखम् .

Aalasyasya kuto vidyaa avidyasya kuto dhanam.
adhanasya kuto mitram amitrasya kuto sukham.

Aalasya  = laziness, idleness .  Sya = a pronoun , base of 3rd person.   Aalasyasya = a lazy or idle person   Kuto = where.     Vidyaa = any kind of knowledge, learning, education.    Avidya = uneducated, foolishness.     Avidyasya = a foolish or uneducated person.    Adhana = without money.    Adhanasya = a poor person.      Mitra= friend.      Amitrasya = a person without friendsfriends.    Sukham = happiness,prosperity.

i.e.     If a person is lazy then where are the chances of his being a learned persons ?  So also if a person is foolish and uneducated  how can he be rich, and if he is poor how can he have friends, and if he has no friends how can he become happy and prosperous ?

(Through this Subhashit the author exhorts us to shed laziness, which is the root cause of being uneducated,poor, without any friends and  happiness.)

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