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शोकस्थानसहस्राणि दुःखस्थानशतानि च ।
दिवसे दिवसे मूढमाविशन्ति न पण्डितम् ॥

shoka sthAna sahasrANi duHkha sthAna shatAni ca ।
divase divase mUDham Avishanti na paNDitam ॥

Every day there are thousand reasons to feel sad, hundred reasons to worry. Such things only bother fools; not wise men.

उल्लङ्घ्य    सिन्धो:  सलिलं  सलीलं 

 यः शोक:  वह्निं  जनकात्ह्मजाया: I

आदाय    तेनैव  ददाह  लङ्कां 

नमामि  तं  प्राञ्जलिर्  आञ्जनेयम्  IIRamayana dhyana sloka

Ullangasya sindho salilam salilam

Yah sokha vahnim janakathmajayaah I

AAdhaaya thenaiva daadaaha Lankaam

namaami tam pranjalir Anjaneyam  II

I salute that son of Anjana with folded hands, Who crosses the great ocean playfully, Who took away the fire like sorrow of Sita, And with that burnt the city of Lanka.

व्रीडितां दुःखसन्तप्तां परिम्लानां तपस्विनीम्।
ग्रहेणाङ्गारकेणेव पीडितामिव रोहिणीम्।।5.15.22।।Sundara kandam

Vreeditaam dukhasantaptaam parimlaanaam tapasvineem I

Grahenaangaarakenaiva peeditaamiva rohineem II

She was bashful, tormented with agony, dejected with a withered look. She appeared like the star Rohini oppressed by planet Mars.( Sita at Ashoka vatika )

अश्रुपूर्णमुखीं दीनां कृशामनशनेन च।
शोकध्यानपरां दीनां नित्यं दुःखपरायणाम्।।5.15.23।।Sundara kandam

Ashrupoorna mukheem deenaam krushaam anashanena cha I

Shokaadhyaanaparaam deenaam nityam dukhaparaayanaam  II

Her face was filled with tears. She looked dejected and emaciated due to fasting. Always plunged in grief, she looked like one meditating in tears.

சோகம் தவிர்க்கும் சுருதிப் பொருள் ஓன்று சொல்லுகின்றோம்
நாகம் தனக்கும் இராக்கத்திற்கும் நமக்கும் சரணம்
ஆகண்டவன் மகனாகிய வா வலிப்பேறிய வோர்
காகம் பிழைத்திடக் கண்ணழிவே செய்த காகுத்தனே -Vedanta desika

(ஆகண்டவன் மகனாகிய வா வலிப்பேறிய வோர் -இந்திரனுடைய புத்தரானாகிய கர்வம் கொண்ட ஒரு காகம் குற்றம் செய்ய… )

शोको नाशयते  धैर्यं शोको नाशयते श्रुतं।

शोको नाशयते सर्वं नास्ति शोकोसमो रिपुः॥ 2.62.15

Shoko naashayate dhairyam shoko naashayate shrutam

Shoko naashayete sarvam nasti shokasamo ripuh

Grief destroys one’s courage.  It destroys one’s learning.  It destroys one’s everything.  There is no enemy greater than grief.

 (  These are the words of Kausalya, who had earlier chastised Dasaratha for having banished Rama to the forest )

निरुत्साहस्य दीनस्य शोकपर्याकुलात्मनः

सर्वार्थाः व्यवसीदन्ति व्यसनं चाधिगच्छति I  6.2.6

 Nirutsaahasya deenasya shokaparyaakulaatmanah

 Sarvaarthhaah vyavaseedanti vyasanam chaadhigachchhati

The efforts of one who is unenthusiastic, weak and immersed in sorrow cannot bring out any good and he comes to grief.

 (These are words of Sugreeva to Rama , after Hanuman brought the news of having seen Sita at ashoka vatika )

यस्मिन्सर्वाणि भूतानि आत्मैवाभूद्विजानतः ।

 तत्र को मोहः कः शोक एकत्वमनुपश्यतः ॥ Isa vaasya upanisad

Yasminsarvaani bhootaani aatmaivaabhoot vijaanatah I

Tatra ko mohah kah shokah ekatvamanupasyatah II7

When to the man of realization all beings become the very Self, then what delusion and what sorrow can there be for that seer of oneness?

गते शोको न कर्तव्यो भविष्यं नैव चिन्तयेत् ।

वर्तमानेन कालेन वर्तयन्ति विचक्षणाः॥

One should not mourn over the past and should not remain worried about the future. 

The wise operate in present.

कस्य न शोको यः स्यात्
    अक्रोधः किं सुखं तुष्टिः ।

kasya na shoko yaH syAt
    akrodhaH kim sukham tuShTiH ।

Who does not have worries? A person who does not get angry.

 Who is happy? He who is contented. 

यया स्वप्नं भयं शोकं विषादं मदमेव च |
न विमुञ्चति दुर्मेधा धृति: सा पार्थ तामसी || BG 18.35

yayā svapnaṁ bhayaṁ śhokaṁ viṣhādaṁ madam eva cha
na vimuñchati durmedhā dhṛitiḥ sā pārtha tāmasī

That by which one from stupidity does not abandon sleep, fear, grief, despair, and also vanity , that firmness, O! Partha , is thamasic.

SRI KRISHNAYA THUBHYAM NAMAH