[Advaita-l] Fwd: केचन श्लोकाः (quoted by Swami Paramarthananda)

[D.V.N. Sarma]

* *I think there is a small correction.
आहारार्थं कर्म कुर्यादजस्रं
स्यादाहारः प्राणसंधारणार्थम् ।
प्राणा धार्याः तत्त्वजिज्ञासनार्थं
तत्त्वं ज्ञेयं येन भूयो न दुःखम् ॥

regards,
Sarma.

On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 12:51 PM, V Subrahmanian
<v.subrahmanian at gmail.com>wrote:

> Namaste.
>
> Here are a few verses quoted by Swami Paramarthananda in the course of his
> lectures.  I thought they have some good message to convey and hence
> presenting them in this forum.
>
> आहारार्थं कर्म कुर्यादजस्रं
> स्यादाहारः प्राणसंधारणार्थम् ।
> प्राणधार्याः तत्त्वजिज्ञासनार्थं
> तत्त्वं ज्ञेयं येन भूयो न दुःखम् ॥
>
> Work incessantly for the sake of securing food  [earn to eat]
> Eating is with a view to maintain the body [eat to live]
> Living is for the sake of enquiry into the Truth
> Truth is to be realized so that there is no more misery.
>
> उद्यन्तु शतमादित्याः उद्यन्तु शतमिन्दवः ।
> विनापरोक्षानुभवं नश्यति नान्तरं तमः ॥
>
> Let a hundred suns rise, let a hundred moons rise.  The inner darkness of
> ignorance will not go without the direct experience of the Truth.
>
> वस्त्रेण वपुषा वाचा विद्यया विनयेन च ।
> वकारैः पञ्चभिर्हीनो नरो हीनत्वमृच्छति ॥
>
> There are these five things that make a complete person; bereft of these
> one
> becomes lowly:
>
> vastram -  proper attire.  vapuH - well maintained body. vidyA -
> knowledgeable.  vAk - pleasing words. vinaya - courteous behavior.
>
>  किं वाससा<
> http://samskrtam.wordpress.com/2005/09/23/%e0%a4%95%e0%a4%bf%e0%a4%82-%e0%a4%b5%e0%a4%be%e0%a4%b8%e0%a4%b8%e0%a4%be-2/
> >
>
> किं वाससा इत्यत्र विचारणीयं
> वासः प्रधानं खलु योग्यतायै।
> पीताम्बरं वीक्ष्य ददौ स्वकन्यां
> दिगम्बरं (चर्माम्बरं) वीक्ष्य विषं समुद्रः॥
>
>
> kiṁ vāsasā ityatra vicāraṇīyaṁ
> vāsaḥ pradhānaṁ khalu yogyatāyai |
> pītāmbaraṁ vīkṣya dadau svakanyāṁ
> digambaraṁ (chamAmbaram) vīkṣya viṣaṁ samudraḥ ||
>
> Sanskrit humour…
>
>
> ""What's in one's dress" — is a point for contemplation;
> apparel is indeed important for appropriateness;
> Looking at the one dressed in bright yellow clothes (Mahavishnu), the Ocean
> (Samudraraaja) gave him his daughter (Lakshmi); seeing the one dressed in
> nothing (clad in elephant/tiger skin) (Lord Shiva) Samudra raaja gave him
> poison!" [The samudra-mathanam of the Purana is being alluded to where upon
> churning the ocean of milk by the devas and asuras, many things came up,
> both auspicious, like Lakshmi, and inauspicous, like the hAlAhala poison.]
>
> Om Tat Sat
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