Sunday 1 November 2015

Today's Subhashita.

जीवन्तोSपि  मृताः पञ्च  व्यासेन परिकीर्तिताः |
दरिद्रो  व्याधितो  मूर्खः प्रवासी  नित्यसेवकः     ||

अर्थ -      धर्मशास्त्रों के व्याख्याकारों द्वारा यही  उद्घोषित 
किया जाता है कि दरिद्र,  बीमार, मूर्ख, अपने परिवार से दूर
विदेश मे रहने  वाले तथा बंधुआ मजदूर  , ये पांच प्रकार  के
व्यक्ति  दीर्घजीवी होने पर भी एक मृतक के  समान होते हैं
(कभी सुखी जीवन यापन नहीं  करते  है ) |

Jeevantopi mrutaah pancha Vyesena parikeertitaah .
Daridro vyaadhito moorrkhh pravaasee nityasevakah

Jeevantopi = jeevanto +api.    Jeevanto =  long lived.
Api = even.      Mrutaah = dead.       Pancha = five.
Vyaasena = by a brahmin who recites or holds discourses
on Puranaas (religious texts of Hindu Religion).
Parikeertitaah =  proclaimed.    Daridro = a poor person.
Vyadhito =a sick person.    Moorkhh = a foolish person.
Pravaasi = a person away from his home or living in a
foreign country.     Nityasevak = a bonded labourer.

i.e.       Preachers and interpreters of Religious texts have
always proclaimed that these five types of persons, namely
poor, sick, foolish, living in foreign lands away from their
family and bonded labourers, are like dead persons,although
they may live a long life.

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