ARISE –AWAKE- उत्तिष्ठत जाग्रत

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काम: क्रोधश्च मोहश्च देहे तिष्टन्ति तस्करा:I

ज्ञान रत्नापहारार्थं तस्मात् जाग्रत! जाग्रत! II

Kaama:, Krodhascha, Mohascha dehe thishtanti taskaraa: I  Gyana ratnaapahaartham tasmaath  Jagratha, Jagratha II

Three thieves called Kama, Krodha, and Moha  reside in your body. They will rob you of the invaluable gem of knowledge. There fore Be awake! Be awake!

In the Bhagavad Gita ,we have something very similar : 

काम एष क्रोध एष रजोगुणसमुद्भव: ||   

  महाशनो महापाप्मा विद्ध्येनमिह वैरिणम् || 37||

śhrī bhagavān uvācha I kāma eṣha krodha eṣha rajo-guṇa-samudbhavaḥ 

  mahāśhano mahā-pāpmā   viddhyenam iha vairiṇam  II   BG 3.37:

The Supreme Lord said: It is lust alone, which is born of contact with the mode of passion, and later transformed into anger. Know this as the sinful, all-devouring enemy in the world.

Swami Vivekananda used this verse from Katopanishad with telling effect :

उत्तिष्ठत जाग्रत प्राप्य वरान्निबोधत ।    

क्षुरस्य धारा निशिता दुरत्यया दुर्गं पथस्तत्कवयो वदन्ति ।।

Uttisthata Jagrata Prapya Varannibodhata

Kshurasanna Dhara Nishita Durataya durgam Pathastat kavayo Vadanti

Arise! Awake! Approach the great and learn.   Like the sharp edge of a razor is that path,

so the wise say−hard to tread and difficult to cross.

Swami Vivekananda also considered this verse from Gita as most important for youngsters :

क्लैब्यं मा स्म गम: पार्थ नैतत्तवय्युपपद्यते |

क्षुद्रं हृदयदौर्बल्यं त्यक्त्वोत्तिष्ठ परन्तप || 3||

klaibyaṁ mā sma gamaḥ pārtha naitat tvayyupapadyate

kṣhudraṁ hṛidaya-daurbalyaṁ tyaktvottiṣhṭha parantapa

BG 2.3: O Partha, it does not befit you to yield to this unmanliness. Give up such petty weakness of heart and arise, O vanquisher of enemies.

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