What If Mother Turns Hostile? Poem by Aniruddha Pathak
What If Mother Turns Hostile?
By learning, good manners we gain,
If that should arrogance attain,
What can be done? Who to complain?
If a child by mother is slain.
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Education and learning should basically impart polite good manners. But that results in haughty arrogance? Well, the very purpose is nullified. Note the analogy between education and mother here. This basic tenet in life is highlighted in this subhashita, whose transliteration follows:
vidyayā vinaya avāpti sā chet a-vinaya āvahā |
kim kūrmah kam prati brumah garadāyām sva-mātari ||
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Translations|03.11.13|
By learning, good manners we gain, If that should arrogance attain, What can be done? Who to complain? .....non to complain where a child is slain by a mother. This is a beautiful poem having lofty theme. The original shloka is well translated. Thank you dear Pathak sir for sharing this poem here.
The joy of translating from Sanskrit, our rich heritage, is all the more when there are learned readers like you, dear KM.
By learning, good manners we gain.....I firmly believe in this truthful statement! An excellent work sir.....10
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Member: Dr Dillip K Swain Comment: By learning, good manners we gain.....I firmly believe in this truthful statement! An excellent work sir.....10