There are thoughts like , that it is better to have a good son with 6 years of age rather than a bad boy with 100 years. So too this verse outside renders a meaning as translated. But the meaning in reality is the opposite. In your street you have 40 houses. At home you have 6 members. Another 200 members are residing outside whom you do not know. Para Jana. Swa jana is just 6. Nobody has any interest in you at home and equally outside. Then who is trustworthy in presenti? A BIRD IN THE HAND IS worthTWO IN THE BUSH. tHAT IS ALL. Guna is a general term having satva rajasa and Thamo; and thamo guna is also a discipline but just comparatively, as the 5 at home will know that you are dead but not that 200. Neethi story of animals would render such tatvams. 2 kaḥ nu asmin sāṃpratam loke guṇavān kaḥ ca vīryavān |
dharmajñaḥ ca kṛtajñaḥ ca satya vākyo dhṛḍha vrataḥ || 1-1-2 2. asmin loke = in this, world; saampratam = presently; guNavaan = principled person; kaH nu = who is, really; viiryavaan ca = potential one, also; kaH = who is; dharma j~naH ca = conscientious, also; kR^ita j~naH ca = what has been done, knower of it [a redeemer,] also; satya vaakyaH = truth, speaker of [habitually speaking the truth = truth-teller]; dR^iDha vrataH = determined in his deed. "Who really is that person in this present world, who is principled and also a potential one, a conscientious one, a redeemer, and also a truth-teller and self-determined in his deed... [1-1-2] In Sanskrit poems the poets are at liberty to use words at any place according to exigencies of their metric rules. So, the order of words used by the poet called pada vibhaaga , in this poem is like this kaH nu asmin saampratam loke guNavaan kaH ca viiryavaan dharma j~naH ca kR^ita j~naH ca satya vaakyaH dhR^iDha vrataH We have not shown this division of words for all verses in a separate paragraph, but separated them in the verse itself, [even if it gives a low-brow reading,] for fear of repetitive work. These very words are to be reconnected by readers to derive a particular meaning called anvyaya krama. By this process the words in this second verse will be connected like this: asmin loke saamprataam guNavaan kaH nu; viiryaaan ca kaH; dharmaj~naH ca; kR^ita j~naH ca; satya vaakyaH dR^iDha vrataH; [ellipted]: kaH Same words available in the verse but with changed placement. All the verses are provided with word-to-word meanings in anvya krama, i.e., words parsed according to Sanskrit way of reading and then meanings are given. Further, we tried to give meanings in verse-by-verse in order to tell each on its own. But at times, the meaning rolls into next foots. Then it is inevitable to push and pull the feet of verses, up or down, to give a meaningful paragraph. Some of our readers are a little confused about this arrangement. Hence we request you to go by the verse numbers in such places, and there will be many such pulls and pushes as we go along. The meter filling words like tu, hi ca, sma, ha, vai: paada puuraNe - amara kosha do not usually mean anything and they fit-in as meter fillers, hence will be dropped in word-to-word meanings. But if they are used specifically, they play havoc in rendering meaning. Here the word dharmaj~na is used, which means, 'knower of rightness...' but when coupled with ca it means 'also, the knower of wrongness... ' where the ca assumes the character of 'either...' and the use of numerous ca-s here in these questions of Valmiki, is to denote that every questioned merit plusses itself into one human being. We are showing all the ca-s and tu-s throughout, giving their meaning as 'also...' and they may be dropped, if need be, in the gist of verse. But Ramayanaam thinks otherwise. KR IRS 2 9 23 On Sat, 2 Sept 2023 at 07:41, Jambunathan Iyer <[email protected]> wrote: > 🌼 हरिः ॐ। 🌼🙏🏼 शुभ दिनम्। 🙏🏼 > > गुणवान् वा परजन: स्वजनो निर्गुणोपि वा । > निर्गुण: स्वजन: श्रेयान् य: पर: पर एव सः ।। > > 🔆 गुणवतः शत्रोः अपेक्षया गुणहीनः मित्रं श्रेष्ठः भवति यतो हि मित्रं तु > सदा अस्माकं हितमेव चिन्तयति किन्तु शत्रुस्तु गुणानामुपयोगम् अहितायैव करोति > । > > ⚜गुणवान शत्रु से सहस्र गुणा श्रेष्ठ गुणहीन मित्र होता है। मित्र यदि > गुणहीन भी होगा तो हमारे हित के विषय में ही चिन्तन करेगा, परन्तु शत्रु यदि > गुणवान् होगा तो अपने गुणों का प्रयोग हमारे अहित के लिये ही करेगा। > > A friend without virtue is better than an enemy with virtue because a > friend always thinks of our best interests but an enemy uses virtues to > harm us. > > நல்லொழுக்கமுள்ள எதிரியை விட நல்லொழுக்கம் இல்லாத நண்பன் சிறந்தவன், > ஏனென்றால் ஒரு நண்பன் எப்போதும் நம் நலன்களைப் பற்றியே சிந்திக்கிறான், ஆனால் > ஒரு எதிரி நமக்கு தீங்கு செய்ய நல்லொழுக்கங்களைப் பயன்படுத்துகிறான். > > 💐🪷 उत्कृष्टः भवतु अग्रिमे दिनम्। 🪷💐 > > #Subhashitam > N Jambunathan Rengarajapuram-Kodambakkam-Chennai-Mob:9176159004 > > *" What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you > become by achieving your goals. If you want to live a happy life, tie it to > a goal, not to people or things "* > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/CAL5XZoq0e__VxBD64KYoryejgnwC4drCx3sqnhJ5No-GZ6d78w%40mail.gmail.com.
