Words Well Worth 39: There's No One On Earth Of No Worth Poem by Aniruddha Pathak

Rare an alphabet that's mantra not,
A plant root that be medicine not,
There is no man unfit upon earth,
Rare a man that knows one's hidden worth.
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Transliteration of the subhāśhita along with the meanings of Sanskrit words seriatim is given as under:

amantram akśharam na asti, na asti mūlam an-auśhadham |
ayogyah puruśhah na asti, yojakah tatra durlabhah ||

a-mantram:without being a mantra, that is not a chant
akśharam:(there is no)letter
na : no/never
asti:there is/be
na asti mūlam:there is no root (of a plant)
an-auśhadham:(that is)not medicinal remedy
a-yogyah: (who is)inappropriate,useless/worthless
puruśhah:(no)man/person
na asti:there is/be no
yojakah: (it is the)organiser/one who finds the use/one who manages
tatra:there, in such cases
durlabhah: (who is)rare, hard to get

What a fine piece, an observation of human behaviour!We easily condemn a person saying he is useless. What we don't realise: our own limitation in finding out what a person is good at. Everyone has some special talent. Every stone has a special quality, precious in some special way, but we equate all stones. We pigeon-hole people, and put them in arbitrary slots.

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