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jano muuDhabhaavena shochatyapaartha.n

kshaNenaiva bhaavyaM bhavatyeva nityam.h |

bhavet.h karmaNaa svena putraadiyogo

vR^ithaa khidyate tadviyoge.alpabuddhiH || 17||

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manii.n maanavii vyartha chi.ntaa vahaate.n .

akasmaata hoNaara ho{U}na jaate.n ..

ghaDe bhogaNe sarvahii karmayoge.n .

matiima.nda te.n kheda maanii viyoge.n .. 17..

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##manii.n ## = in the mind;

##maanavii ## = human being;

##vyartha ## = unnecessary;

##chi.ntaa ## = worry;

##vahaate ## = carries.

##akasmaata ## = suddenly;

##hoNaara ## = bound to happen;

##ho{U}na ## = happens;

##jaate.n ## = goes.

##ghaDe ## = happens;

##bhogaNe ## = experience(pleasure and pain);

##sarvahii ## = all;

##karmayoge.n ## = due to actions.

##matiima.nda ## = dim-witted;

##te.n ## = that;

##kheda ## = misery;

##maanii ## = considers;

##viyoge.n ## = separation.

 

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Vain is the worry one carries in the mind;

Unexpected, the inevitable comes to pass;

All experience is shaped by actions past;

Misery the lot for the dim of wit, disjoined from the truth of mind .. 17..

 

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Original Marathi manaache shloka by Samarth Ramadas.

Translations by Sunder Hattangadi.

Sanskrit verse by raamadaasaanudaasa (anonymous).

ITRANS 5.1 scheme: http://www.alkhemy.com/sanskrit/itrans_short.txt

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> jano muuDhabhaavena shochatyapaartha.n

> kshaNenaiva bhaavyaM bhavatyeva nityam.h |

> bhavet.h karmaNaa svena putraadiyogo

> vR^ithaa khidyate tadviyoge.alpabuddhiH || 17||

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> manii.n maanavii vyartha chi.ntaa vahaate.n .

> akasmaata hoNaara ho{U}na jaate.n ..

> ghaDe bhogaNe sarvahii karmayoge.n .

> matiima.nda te.n kheda maanii viyoge.n .. 17..

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> %versemeanings

> Vain is the worry one carries in the mind;

> Unexpected, the inevitable comes to pass;

> All experience is shaped by actions past;

> Misery the lot for the dim of wit, disjoined from the truth of mind .. 17..

 

Hi shree

 

This message appeared to me a little too final, in that the actions of

the past result in current grief.

 

i would like to put forward a cancellation theory for this :

 

There was this lady who used to be doing seva for Tulsidas. She used

to clean his house and keep his pooja items ready and do sundry such

work with great devotion.

 

She had one grief in that she had no children. So one day she asked

Tulsidas, who was in the habit of speaking with god, to ask god whether

she was destined to get a child in this birth.

 

Tulsidas asked the lord about this in his next conversation and the

lord replied, due to past karma in this birth that is one thing she

will not have.

 

This Tulsidas duly conveyed to the lady who was sad but duly accepted it

as her fate.

 

Then one day to the same town came a great devotee of Lord Hayagreeva.

The normal offering to this lord is fresh cucumbers. On the day this

great Bhagavatha was in town none could be found in the city.

This lady(who was doing seva for Tulsidas) heard of it. Her business

was to grow and sell cucumbers, so she collected the choicest among the

cucumbers and put them in a basket and took them over to this

Bhagavatha.

 

This great devotee was extremely pleased that he was able to offer

his lord the choicest of fresh cucumbers, he offered some money to

this pious lady which she promptly declined saying that she was

glad to be of service to such a great Bhagvatha. He was pleased with

this devotion and so he blessed her saying "May you be the mother of a

handsome boy".

 

This lady duly gave birth to a beautiful baby and arrived with the baby

to Tulsidas for the naming ceremony. Tulsidas was surprised as to how

she could have begotten a child when the lord himself had told him

that she was, due to her past karma, destined to be childless.

 

The lady then narrated the incident of this Bhagvatha and how he had

blessed her.

 

Tulsidas then asked the lord as to how this could have happened.

 

The lord replied saying "Tulsidas, you only asked me and I told you

about her destiny, but this other devotee of mine without so much as

asking me blessed her to be the mother of a beautiful baby. How could

I allow a word of my true bhakta to go false and therefore I had to

change her destiny".

 

The moral of this story is that with the blessing of a true bhagavatha

even destiny is changed.

 

This story also tells us the importance of a Guru who is the truest

Bhagavatha for all of us.

 

More later

 

love

 

srini

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>

> "Sunder Hattangadi" <gourish

> Mon 19:12

> namaste,

> There is a famous abhanga of Saint Eknath along this line:

>

> " ekaa janaardanii.n bhoga praarabdhaachaa .

> harikR^ipe.n tyaachaa naasha aahe .. "

> meaning:

> Janardana's (Guru) Eka (disciple) says, enjoyment and

> suffering are results of past actions;

> But if Hari deigns His Grace, those are destroyed.

>

> Gita says the same:

> " sarvadharmaanparityajya maameka.n sharaNa.n vraja .

> aha.n tvaa sarvapaapebhyo moxayishhyaami maa shuchaH .." (18:66)

>

> This is cosidered the " charama shloka " (the FINAL word!!).

>

> ( The story is plausible, but I doubt if Tulasi had any part in it!!!?)

>

> Regards,

>

> Sunder

>

 

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Regards,

Shree

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