Steadfast

Courtesy: Sri.KV.Anantanarayanan

 

क्षुधार्तो न तृणं चरति सिंहः॥१६४॥
चाणक्यसूत्राद्
संपत्तौ च विपत्तौ च महतां एकरूपता।
उदये सविता रक्तः रक्तश्चाऽस्तमने तथा॥
kṣudhārto na tṛṇaṁ carati siṁhaḥ||164||
cāṇakyasūtrād
saṁpattau ca viapattau ca mahatāṁ ekarūpatā|
udaye savitā raktaḥ raktaścā'stamane tathā||

"The lion will not take grass for food just because it is hungry beyond
endurance". This is another aphorism from the great Chanakya. To fortify
this noble view another subhasitam is quoted.. "The noble persons have only
one character, whether they are enjoying in affluence or are afflicted with
poverty. Look at the Sun...when he is in the youth of raising in the
morning, he appears dark red. At the end of the day, when he his to depart
into darkness, again his hue does not change.. He appears in his dark red
colour, then too".

Every object, whether animate or inanimate, has its basic character and the
noble and praiseworthy one's never change that.. if that basic character is
lost, the identity is lost and everything is lost. Shakespeare waxed
eloquent about the permanent and unwavering nature of love in his sonnet 116

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

The great Ravana is said to have stood steadfast
on the face of the vajrayudha and the fall of
thunderbolt but is described as not moving away even an inch in a fight

Alas, there are always chameleons...who change colour according to the
environments just to
save their existence..but then they never reach immortality.

knr

--
If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it.
Happy moments, praise God.
Difficult moments, seek God.
Quiet moments, worship God.
Painful moments, trust God.

  Every moment, thank God