LABDA PRANAASAM- LOSS OF GAINS- PTLP-5

 SUBHASHITHANI: 459

किं क्रन्दसि दुराक्रन्द स्व-पक्ष-क्षय-कारक ।
स्व-पक्षस्य क्षये जाते को नस् त्राता भविष्यति ॥ ३१ ॥
kiṃ krandasi durākranda sva-pakṣa-kṣaya-kāraka |
sva-pakṣasya kṣaye jāte ko nas trātā bhaviṣyati || 4.31 ||
Why do you cry now, your cry is of no use and you have brought ruin on your family; when one’s own kith and kin are no more who will be the saviour?

बुभुक्षितः किं न करोति पापं
क्षीणा नरा निष्करुणा भवन्ति ।
आख्याहि भद्रे प्रिय-दर्शनस्य no
न गङ्गदत्तः पुनर् एति कूपम् ॥ ३२ ॥
bubhukṣitaḥ kiṃ na karoti pāpaṃ
kṣīṇā narā niṣkaruṇā bhavanti |
ākhyāhi bhadre priya-darśanasya
na gaṅgadattaḥ punar eti kūpam || 4.32 ||
What all vices a hungry person does not commit? Generally, a hungry person gives up empathy, compassion and kindness. My dear friend! go and tell the snake that Ganga Datta ( frog king )will never come to the well again.

The story of the Lion and Donkey

Once there lived in a forest a wounded lion who could not go for hunting. He had a clever fox as a servant. The lion asked the fox to go around and bring some animal whom he can kill and then they can eat. The fox roamed around and found a donkey. He cleverly enticed him by saying that if he would follow him he would take him to a place where three beautiful female donkeys are waiting for him. The donkey followed the fox and met with his death.

आगतश् च गतश् चैव गत्वा यः पुनर् आगतः ।
अकर्ण-हृदयो मूर्खस् तत्रैव निधनं गतः ॥ ३३ ॥
āgataś ca gataś caiva gatvā yaḥ punar āgataḥ |
akarṇa-hṛdayo mūrkhas tatraiva nidhanaṃ gataḥ || 4.33 ||
He came once and saw the might of the lion and went back, But that fool, who having neither ears to hear nor a mind to think, went back again and  got himself killed.

नामृतं न विषं किञ्चिद् एकां मुक्त्वा नितम्बिनीम् ।
यस्याः सङ्गेन जीव्येत म्रियते च वियोगतः ॥ ३४ ॥
nāmṛtaṃ na viṣaṃ kiñcid ekāṃ muktvā nitambinīm |
yasyāḥ saṅgena jīvyeta mriyate ca viyogataḥ || 4.34 ||
Except a woman there is nothing that may be called a nectar or poison both at the same time; by being in company one lives; separated from whom one dies.

यासां नाम्नापि कामः स्यात् सङ्गमं दर्शनं विना ।
तासां दृक्-सङ्गमं प्राप्य यन् न द्रवति कौतुकम् ॥ ३५ ॥
yāsāṃ nāmnāpi kāmaḥ syāt saṅgamaṃ darśanaṃ vinā |
tāsāṃ dṛk-saṅgamaṃ prāpya yan na dravati kautukam || 4.35 ||
By mere mention of whose name, without union or sight, passion is raised, it is a wonder if one does not melt on meeting with the glances of those women.

स्त्री-मुद्रां मकरध्वजस्य जयिनीं सर्वार्ध-सम्पत्-करीं
ते मूढाः प्रविहाय यान्ति कुधियो मिथ्या-फलान्वेषिणः ।
ते तेनैव निहत्य निर्दयतरं नग्नीकृता मुण्डिताः
केचिद् रक्त-पटीकृताश् च जटिलाः कापालिकाश् चापरे ॥ ३६ ॥
strī-mudrāṃ makaradhvajasya jayinīṃ sarvārdha-sampat-karīṃ
 te mūḍhāḥ pravihāya yānti kudhiyo mithyā-phalānveṣiṇaḥ |
te tenaiva nihatya nirdayataraṃ nagnīkṛtā muṇḍitāḥ
 kecid rakta-paṭīkṛtāś ca jaṭilāḥ kāpālikāś cāpare || 4.36 ||
Those fools, who ignore the command of the God of Love, which appears in the form of a woman, and instead go after vain fruits ( that obtained by following celibacy and fasts ) are by  that very god made to wander about naked and shaven, some wearing saffron robes, some of matted hair and others having a garland of human skulls.

जानन्न् अपि नरो दैवात् प्रकरोति विगर्हितम् ।
कर्म किं कस्यचिल् लोके गर्हितं रोचते कथम् ॥ ३७ ॥
jānann api naro daivāt prakaroti vigarhitam |
karma kiṃ kasyacil loke garhitaṃ rocate katham || 4.37 ||
Though men know better, they often commit reprehensible acts due to adverse fate. How else a man takes a liking for  shameful acts which deserve condemnation?

 SRI KRISHNAYA THUBHYAM NAMAH