Burst Ten (For Youth):
Adore Them
- Adore those ears, which always hear good words from pious (and practical) people.
- Pity those ears, which have become slaves to mere praise or pleasure.
- Adore those eyes (of those who help others), which see and show the right path to blind people and save them from stepping on thorns and falling in pits.
- Pity those eyes (of self-centered ones), which endlessly look for mere sensation.
- Adore those hands, which protect from beating people fallen on the ground.
- Pity those hands, which beat the weak and exploit the poor.
- Adore those feet, which walk the right path and go an extra distance to uplift the downtrodden.
- Pity those feet, which rush to wrong activity by sheer habit lacking in discrimination.
- Adore those learned people, who bear with the imperfections and limitations of others.
- Pity those learned people, who are arrogant and just demand others’ submission to them.
- Adore the mind, which forgets and forgives.
- Pity the mind, which suffers under the weight of its own memories, pride and revenge.
(Partly based on and suitably adapted from Dr. B.S.Ramakrishna Rao’s Chanakya Neeti Shlokagalu)
Swami Chidananda
Monday, May 12, 2003