Guest guest Posted February 13, 2009 Report Share Posted February 13, 2009 Dear Sarojamji,Thank you so much for these beautiful quotes. It is so nice of you to take time to provide us the meanings as well as stories to elaborate the point. Really enjoy reading these e-mails.With Love & Regards LakshmyOn Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 2:45 AM, sarojram18 <sarojram18 wrote: 10. lakshmeeh vasathi jihvaagre jihvaagre mithrabaanDhvaah banDhanam chaiva jihvaagre jihvaagre maranam Dhruvam Lakshmi lives at the tip of the tongue; the friends and relatives are at the tip of the tongue; bondage is also at the tip of the tongue and the death is also at the tip of the tongue. Of all the senses the tongue is the most powerful one. It is used for both taste and talk. When one learns to eat wisely, he gets good fortune in the form of health and also wealth when he uses his tongue to speak wisely. Learned men who express their knowledge well get acclaim and make progress. One's friends and relatives are what they are depending on how one talks. All surround the one who is pleasing in his speech and leave the one who uses harsh words or speak ill of others. On the other hand it is possible to kill a lifelong friendship or relationship by offending words. Bondage is also through the tongue only as a man gets addicted to tasty but harmful food and drink. Similarly, idle gossip, slander and cruelty by words, all create a reaction that recoils on the speaker and produces further karma which binds him to the cycle of birth and death, to experience the effect of his doings. It is said that if you speak ill of someone his bad karma adheres to you partly and he gets free from that part of karma. There is story to illustrate this. A devotee who was living alone wanted to attain salvation and prayed to Lord who appeared in his dream and told him that there was still some karma remaining which he had to exhaust. The devotee asked whether there is any way to get rid of that soon. The Lord showed him a way. There was a serving woman who used to come and do the chores for the devotee out of respect everyday. He was told by the Lord to ask her to stay overnight in his place. He did so and the good woman also had so much regard for him and accepted to do so without question. The next day the whole village was talking about it slandering the man for having slept with the woman. Then all his remaining bad karma was shared by the people in the village and he became free and attained salvation. That is why talking ill of others is a worse sin than we imagine. Death also happens because of the tongue. By food and drink which is injurious to health one can kill himself. Sometimes saying what should not be said can lead to death of oneself or others. An example of one who met his death through his tongue was Sisupala. He hurled abuses at Krishna who had promised the mother of Sisupala that he would be patient till Sisupala uttered 100 abuses towards him. When Sisupala crossed the limit he was killed. If he had kept his mouth shut he would not have died! There is another sloka also which illustrates the value of silence. 11. aathmanaH mukhadhosheNa baDhyanthe SukaSaarikaaH bakaasthu naiva baDhyanthe mounam sarvaarTha saaDhakam The parrots and mynas get bound by the fault of their mouth. The storks are never captured and bound in cage. Hence silence is the best means of success! Parrots and Myna are known to speak, repeating the words taught. Hence they are caught and imprisoned in cages. But no one does so with other birds like a stork, which is known to wait at the riverbank silently to catch fish . So silence alone will lead to success! In Srimadbhagavatham there is a sloka , Thaavath jithendhriyo na syaath vijitha anyaendhriyaH pumaan Na jayeth rasanam yaavath jitham sarvam jithe rase By conquering other indhriyas a man will never become self-controlled as long as he has not controlled his tongue, which when restrained all else become controlled. In this context let me give one of my own compositions which is relevant here. kaThayathi kimchith thena baDhyathe naraH rasaruchilobhaath thaysa peedyathe udharam vaachaa himsathi paraan viprakrthyaa athah jihvaa eva SathruH praThamam naraaNaam The tongue is the prime enemy of man because, he says something and gets caught his stomach is tormented by his greed for taste and he hurts others by offensive speech. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 4, 2009 Report Share Posted March 4, 2009 20. na kaSchith api jaanaathi kim kasya SvaH bhavishyathi athaH SvaH karaNeeyaani kuryaath adhya eva buddhimaan No one knows what will happen tomorrow or for whom ther will be a tomorrow. Therefore the wise man does today itself what is to be done tomorrow. SVaH is tomorrow and adhya is today. What will happen tomorrow to us or to others no one knows. What you intend to do tomorrow, especially a good act, should be done today itself. This is an advice against procrastination. Often we tend to postpone things either due to laziness or because it is either difficult or undesirable. We also take things for granted and often go through life without expressing our love and appreciation to others until it is too late. Many a divorce could be prevented if only people learn to appreciate their partners and also to express it. Even towards your children you fail to express your appreciation and love then and there and when you want to say it they are out of your reach. Even the mundane things like finishing the work at hand should be done immediately lest they become too burdensome later if accumulated. Above all today or present moment is in your hands and tomorrow is not in your control. Tomorrow you may have some other urgent matter to attend to and this work which could have been easily finished today will then be forgotten. Past is gone, present is here and future may not be there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 It s difficult because the devnagari script will appear like gibberish in the group mail.Also one has to istall sanskrit fonts of the same kind as I type in. saroja ramanujam Dr. Saroja Ramanujam, M.A., Ph.D, Siromani in sanskrit. www.freewebs.com/asrama3 http://www.geocities.com/sarojram18 --- On Wed, 3/4/09, nadadur vedantham <nadadurvedantham wrote: nadadur vedantham <nadadurvedanthamRe: [Guruvayur] Subhashithaani-Quotable quotesguruvayur Date: Wednesday, March 4, 2009, 11:25 PM Respected Madam Thank you for your great service of providing the useful quotes together with your explanatory notes. Would it be possible to also give the quotes in Devanagari script . Thanks again/. N.Vedantham--- On Tue, 3/3/09, sarojram18 <sarojram18 > wrote: sarojram18 <sarojram18 >[Guruvayur] Subhashithaani- Quotable quotesguruvayur@grou ps.comTuesday, March 3, 2009, 11:14 PM 20. na kaSchith api jaanaathi kim kasya SvaH bhavishyathi athaH SvaH karaNeeyaani kuryaath adhya eva buddhimaan No one knows what will happen tomorrow or for whom ther will be a tomorrow. Therefore the wise man does today itself what is to be done tomorrow. SVaH is tomorrow and adhya is today. What will happen tomorrow to us or to others no one knows. What you intend to do tomorrow, especially a good act, should be done today itself. This is an advice against procrastination. Often we tend to postpone things either due to laziness or because it is either difficult or undesirable. We also take things for granted and often go through life without expressing our love and appreciation to others until it is too late. Many a divorce could be prevented if only people learn to appreciate their partners and also to express it. Even towards your children you fail to express your appreciation and love then and there and when you want to say it they are out of your reach. Even the mundane things like finishing the work at hand should be done immediately lest they become too burdensome later if accumulated. Above all today or present moment is in your hands and tomorrow is not in your control. Tomorrow you may have some other urgent matter to attend to and this work which could have been easily finished today will then be forgotten. Past is gone, present is here and future may not be there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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