HEEDLESSNESS-NEGLIGENCE-PRAMAADAH- प्रमादः

SUBHASHITHANI:232

"A little neglect may breed great mischief "

प्रमादः  सम्पदं  हन्ति प्रश्रयं हन्ति विस्मयः  |
व्यसनं हन्ति विनयं हन्ति शोकश्च धीरताम्  ||- 

Pramaadah sampadam hanti prashrayam hanti vismayah.I Vyasanam hanti vinayam  hanti shokashcha dheerataam.

Negligence destroys wealth, modesty destroys arrogance, vices destroy humility, 

and sorrow destroys courage.

आयुषः क्षण एकोऽपि सर्वरत्नैर्न न लभ्यते।

 नीयते स वृथा येन प्रमादः सुमहानहो ॥

Aayushah kshana ekopi sarva ratnair na labiate I

Neeyate sa vruthaa yena pramaadah sumahaanaho II

You cannot trade or buy back even a second of time when it has run out, 

with all the jewels in the world. So, wasting time is the height of all foolishness.

प्रमादो ब्रह्मनिष्ठायां न कर्तव्यज् कदाचन |

प्रमादो मृत्युरित्याहुर्विद्यायां ब्रह्मवादिनः || Adhyatma Upanishad

Never should one be heedless in devotion to Brahman; ‘heedlessness is death’ so aver the philosophers of Brahman in regard to this science.

न प्रमादादनर्थोऽन्यो ज्ञानिनः स्वस्वरूपतः ।
ततो मोहस्ततोऽहंधीस्ततो बन्धस्ततो व्यथा ॥ ३२२ ॥ Viveka chudamani

na pramādādanartho'nyo jñāninaḥ svasvarūpataḥ |
tato mohastato'haṃdhīstato bandhastato vyathā || 322 ||

There is no greater danger for the Jñānin than carelessness about his own real nature. From this comes delusion, thence egoism, this is followed by bondage, and then comes misery.

स्वभाव एष नारीणां नराणामिह दूषणम्।

अतोऽर्थान्न प्रमाद्यन्ति प्रमदासु विपश्चितः॥ (Manu Smriti.2-213).

It is the nature of women to attract men in this world; for that reason the learned 

are never unguarded in the company of females. ( Sloka is intended to show the 

frailty of men and not to show women in bad light )

Patanjali Yoga Sutra lists nine obstacles including 'pramaada' in the path of Ashtanga Yoga;

व्याधिस्त्यानसंशयप्रमादालस्याविरति भ्रान्तिदर्शनालब्ध

भूमिकत्वानवस्थितत्वानि चित्तविक्षेपास्तेऽन्तरायाः॥३०॥Patanjali 
Vyādhistyānasaṁśayapramādālasyāviratibhrāntidarśanālabdha

bhūmikatvānavasthitatvāni cittavikṣepāste'ntarāyāḥ||

1.Sickness (vyādhi),2. mental inefficiency (styāna),3.doubt (saṁśaya), 

4.negligence (pramāda), 5.idleness (ālasya), 6.non-abstention --lack of control-- (avirati), 7.erroneous perception (bhrānti-darśana), 8.the state of not attaining (alabdha) to any yogic stage (bhūmikatva) (and) 9.unsteadiness --

 (anavasthitatvāni).Those (te) mental (citta) projections (vikṣepāḥ) 

(are) the obstacles (antarāyāḥ)||30||

 सत्यान्न प्रमदितव्यम् । धर्मान्न प्रमदितव्यम्।कुशलान्न प्रमदितव्यम् ।

 भूत्यै न प्रमदितव्यम्। स्वाध्यायप्रवचनाभ्यां न प्रमदितव्यम् ॥Taittireeya Upanishad

Satyaanna pramaditavyam | dharmaanna pramaditavyam |

kushalaannapramaditavyam | bhootyai na pramaditavyam |

Swaadhyaayapravachanaabhyaam na pramaditavyam ||

Let there be no neglect of truth.  Let there be no neglect of virtue.  Let there be no neglect of welfare.  Let there be no neglect of prosperity.  Let there be no neglect of the Veda that has been studied and its teaching.

अप्रकाशोऽप्रवृत्तिश्च प्रमादो मोह एव च |
तमस्येतानि जायन्ते विवृद्धे कुरुनन्दन ||BG14.13||

aprakāśho ’pravṛittiśh cha pramādo moha eva cha
tamasy etāni jāyante vivṛiddhe kuru-nandana

Indiscrimination,inertness,heedlessness and delusion – these arise, O Arjuna, when thamas is predominant.

यदग्रे चानुबन्धे च सुखं मोहनमात्मन: |
निद्रालस्यप्रमादोत्थं तत्तामसमुदाहृतम् || BG18.39||

yad agre chānubandhe cha sukhaṁ mohanam ātmanaḥ
nidrālasya-pramādotthaṁ tat tāmasam udāhṛitam

That happiness which deludes the self from beginning to end, and which arises from sleep, indolence, and negligence, is said to be in the mode of ignorance(Tamas).

SRI KRISHNAYA THUBHYAM NAMAH