KIM PAANDITYAM?- किं पाण्डित्यं -What is erudition?

 SUBHASHITHANI: 311

को धर्मो भूतदया किं सौख्यं नित्यमरोगिना जगति ।
कः स्नेहः सद्भावः किं पाण्डित्यं परिच्छेदः ॥ Hitopadesa

Ko dharmo bhuta dayaa Kim saukyam nityam aroginaa jagati I
Kah snehah sadbhaavah kim pandityam parichchedah  II
What is dharma? Having compassion towards all beings.
What is happiness? Being healthy is happiness.
What is friendship? Feeling of good-will towards every one.
 What is erudition? knowledge to differentiate between good and bad.

को लाभो गुणिसंगम: किमसुखं प्राज्ञेतरै: संगति:

का हानि: समयच्युतिर्निपुणता का धर्मतत्त्वे रति:।
क: शूरो विजितेन्द्रिय: प्रियतमा कानुव्रता किं धनं

विद्या किं सुखमप्रवासगमनं राज्यं किमाज्ञाफलम्॥

Ko laabho-Guni sangamah, Kim asukham- Pragya itaraih sangatih

Kaa haanih- samayachutir nipunataa, kaadharma-tatve ratih

Kah shurah- vijitendriyah, Priyatama kaa- anuvrataa,Kimdhanam

Vidyaa,Kim sukham- Apravasagamanam, Rajyam kim- Agyaa phalam

What is a gain? It is the companionship of the virtuous. 

What is grief? It is the company of fools. What is loss? It is the wasting of time. 

What is prudence? It is devotion to virtue. What is valour? It is the conquest of the senses. Who is a beloved wife? One who is devoted to her husband. What is wealth? It is knowledge. What is happiness? It is to remain settled in one's own country.

What is rulership? It is to command obedience.

अपां निधिं वारिभिरर्चयन्ति दोषेन सूर्यं प्रतिबोधयन्ति।
ताभ्यां तयो: किं परिपूर्णता स्याद् भक्त्या हि तुष्यन्ति महानुभावा:॥

Apaam nidhim vaaribhirachayanti deeepena suryam pratibhodhayanti I

Taabhyaam tayoh kim paripunataa syat bhaktyaa hi tushyanti mahaanubhaavaah II

Worshipping the ocean by offering water( argyam)to him, and showing lights

 ( Aarati ) before the sun , do these actions enhance their fullness ? It is the devotion behind the action that pleases great men.

वक्तारः किं करिष्यन्ति श्रोता यत्र न विद्यते ।
नग्नक्षपणके देशे रजकः किं करिष्यति ॥

Vaktaarah kim karishyanti shrotaa yatra na vidhyate I
Nagna kshapanake dese rajakah kim karishyati II
What will speakers do, where there is no one to listen? In a land of naked sadhus , what business is there for a washer man?

कोऽतिभारः समर्थानां किं दूरं व्यवसायिनाम् ।
को विदेशः सुविद्यानां कः परः प्रियवादिनाम् ॥
To a competent man what work is too heavy? ;What distance is too much for those who are industrious?; Is there a place which is foreign to the learned?;Who is a stranger to those who always speak pleasant words?

किं तया क्रियते धेन्वा या न दोग्ध्री न गर्भिणी ।
कोऽर्थः पुत्रेण जातेन यो न विद्वान्न भक्तिमान् ॥Chanakya niti

What good is a cow that neither gives milk nor conceives? Similarly, what is the value of the birth of a son if he becomes neither learned nor a pure devotee of the Lord?

धनेन किं यो न ददाति नाश्नुते
बलेन किं यश्च रिपून्न बाधते ।
श्रुतेन किं यो न च धर्ममाचरेत्
किमात्मना यो न जितेन्द्रियो भवेत् ॥ २.९ ॥

What is the use of wealth that is not spent either in charity or on oneself?
 What is the use of strength that is not used to control enemies?
 What is the use of knowledge of the scriptures if one does not follow  Dharma? What is the use of oneself when one has not subdued his  senses?

आचार: परमो धर्म आचार: परमं तप:।
आचार परमं ज्ञानम् आचारात् किं न साध्यते॥

Good conduct is the highest mortality, it is the highest penance and it is the highest knowledge. What cannot be achieved through good conduct?

किं खलु रत्नैरेतैः किं पुनरभ्रायितेन वपुषा ते l 
सलिलमपि यन्न तावकमर्णव वदनं प्रयाति तृषितानाम् ll  
kim khalu ratnair etaih kim punar abhraayitena vapuShaa te l
salilamapi yanna taavakam arNava vadanam prayaati truShitaanaam l  
O Ocean! Of what use are your precious jewels and beautiful body ?
Your waters are useless to quench the thirst of people.

SRI KRISHNAYA THUBHYAM NAMAH