आज का सुभाषित / Today's Subhashita.

एकमप्यक्षरं  यस्तु  गुरुः शिष्यं  प्रबोधयेत्  |

पृथिव्यां नास्ति तद्द्रव्यं यद्दत्वा  सोSनृणी भवेत्  ||-  महासुभषित संग्रह 

भावार्थ -     यदि कोई गुरु अपने शिष्य को एक भी अक्षर का ज्ञान देता है 

तो इस पृथिवी में ऐसी कोई वस्तु या धन नहीं है जिसे अपने गुरु को 

समर्पित कर  वह शिष्य उसे प्रदत्त ज्ञान रूपी  ऋण से उऋण हो सकता है |

(सनातन धर्म में गुरु को ईश्वर के समतुल्य माना गया है क्यों कि वह समाज  

को शिक्षित करने  का महान कार्य करता है जिस का मूल्यांकन करना बहुत 

कठिन है |  इसी  भावना  को इस सुभाषित में एक अतिशयोक्ति के द्वारा व्यक्त 

किया गया है |)

Ekamapyaksharam yastu guruh shishyam prabodhayet.

Pruthivyaam naasti taddruvyam yaddatvaa sonrunee bhavet.

Ekamapyaksharam = ekam +api+ aksharam.    Ekam = one.

Api = even     Aksharam = a word,      Guruh = a teacher.

Shishyam = student, pupil.         Prabodhayet = teaches .

Pruthivyaam = in this World.          Naasti = does not exist.

Taddruvyam = tat + druvyam.     Tat = that    Dravya =thing,

object, wealth.    Yaddatvaa = yat + datvaa.    Yat =  that.

Datvaa = by giving.     Sonrunee = so + anrunee,    So = he,

the student.      Anrunee = free from debt or any obligation.            

Bhavet = can become.

i.e.     Even if a single word is taught to  a pupil by a teacher,

there  does  not exist  in this world any thing  or wealth  by  

offering which to his teacher the pupil can become free from 

the debt or obligation of the teacher .

(In the Sanatana Dharma of Hindus the Guru has been revered

equal to the God Almighty and his position is considered even

higher  than the King for  the services rendered by  him  to the 

society in educating the people.  This Subhashita extolls  this 

service of the Guru by the use of a hyperbole .)