Water drop & contacts

Courtesy: Sri.KV.Anantanarayanan
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सन्तप्तायसि संस्थितस्य पयसो नामापि न श्रूतते
मुक्ताकरतया तदेव नळिनीपत्रस्थितं दृश्यते।
अन्तःसागरशुक्तिमध्यपतितं तन्मौक्तिकं जायते
प्रायेणाधममध्यमोत्तमजुषामेवं विधा वृत्तयः॥५८
भर्त्तृहरेः नीतिशतकाद्
santaptāyasi saṁsthitasya payaso nāmāpi na śrūtate
muktākaratayā tadeva naḻinīpatrasthitaṁ dṛśyate|
antaḥsāgaraśuktimadhyapatitaṁ tanmauktikaṁ jāyate
prāyeṇādhamamadhyamottamajuṣāmevaṁ vidhā vṛttayaḥ||58
bharttṛhareḥ nītiśatakād*

*Another gem from the niitisatakam of Bhartruhari.
" A drop of water when it falls on a piece of blazing piece of iron, it
disappears within a split second leaving no trace of it former existence.
The same drope caught on a lotus-leaf, just keeps its round shape and rolls
around the surface giving the false appearance of a pearl. When a similar
water drop falling from the sky is caught by the open flanks of a pearl
oyster, the drop in due course transforms itself into an invaluable pearl. *
*This is verilly the fate of people falling into the control of the evil
people, the reasonably good people and the extremely noble persons.*"
*When we get the company of a cruel fellow, either with show of affection or
with show of crueltly, we are finished in no time. When we have for our
company people who are neither too good or too bad, we can reflect their
quality, sometimes show off elegance and beauty and all but there is no real
substance in that show. Like a waterdrop dancing on a lotus leaf, we may
move gleefully on the surface but once we reach an edge and fall of, it is
indeed a fall for ever. But when we are taken under the tutelage of a noble
person, by constant company and by emulating their good deeds, we are sure
to transform ourselves into really noble persson.*
*This idea has been repeated often.' SaamsargikaaH doshaguna bhavanthi' it
is through the company one keeps that one becomes noble or cruel.. this idea
runs like a golden thread throughout the human thought.*

knr

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