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Sunday, April 02, 2006

Paapa Punya

Punyasya phalam ichchanti
Punyam nechchanti manvaaha
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Na papa phalam ichchanti
Paapam kurvanti yatnataha
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People desire the fruits of their good deeds. But they seldom do those good deeds.
They do not desire the fruits of their sins but they commit sins with lot of efforts(knowingly).

Man is always result oriented. To be result oriented in this age is ok. But one cannot aspire to get something by giving nothing. As they say “There are no free lunches in this world”.
One has to pay a price for everything (not necessarily in terms of money).
So one when desires the fruits of good deeds (punya phala) he has to do good deeds. Also, he has to restrain himself from committing sins.
Of course, the noble exercise their right to do without aspiring for the results.

2 Comments:

Blogger Praveen said...

Wow.. all these are bringing back to my mind my Sanskrit text book from the High school days! Man! Ah! the quintessential being of nature, the summation of everything thatz wonderful and grotesque! How conveniently he seems to rationalize his behaviors, justify his actions, and cover himself with his false pretensions! this shloka is a wonderful mockery of his hypocrism!

4/03/2006 12:23 AM  
Blogger Shashikiran.M said...

Nice site.

4/07/2006 10:35 PM  

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