Sunday 15 December 2013

[www.keralites.net] ADHI SHANKARA'S QUESTIONS & ANSWERS (PRASNOTHRA RATHNA MALIKA) - 2

 

Subject: ADHI SHANKARA'S QUESTIONS ANSWERS (PRASNOTHRA RATHNA MALIKA)
 
 I  am pleased to introduce to you the second set of questions and answers compiled by HH Adhi Sankara in sanskrit, simplified to the extent possible by me in tamil 
and english.  You have to study it yourself and enjoy the meaning as it appeals to you: 

 

 
26. What is transient like the water on a lotus leaf?                  Youth, wealth and life span .
 
27. Who are similar to rays of moon doing good to others?  Good people
28. What is hell?                                                                            Being in the control of others. 
29. What is being all right?                                                           Forsaking everything.
30 What should be achieved?                                                     To do good to all people.
 
31. What is dear to all animals?                                                  Their soul . 
32. What leads to wrong results?                                                Pride .
33. What leads to pleasure?                                                        Friendship with good people.
34. Who is expert in removing all sorrows?                             He who forsakes everything . 
 
35. Which is equivalent to death?                                              Being a fool.
36. Which is invaluable?                                                                Giving anything at the time when it is required badly . 
37. What hurts till you die?                                                           The sin committed in secret
38. For what should you take effort?                                            To learn, to be healthy and to give in charity needs great effort.
 
39. What should be disregarded?                                                  Bad people, other's wife and other's wealth. 
40. What should you think of always during day and night?       That there is no meaning in life and not about women.
41. To what should you get attached?                                          To mercy towards sad people and towards friendship with good people. 
42. Whose soul cannot be reformed?                                            Bad people, doubting Thomases, people with an ever sad face and ungrateful peop
43. Who is good man?                                                                  The one with good character .
44. Who is debased?                                                                     The one with bad character .
45. Whom will Gods worship?                                                      Those who have mercy.
46. Seeing which, should we be afraid?                                        Seeing the forest of domestic life.

 
47. Who can control all living beings?                                           He who tells truth, speaks pleasantly and has humility .
48. For getting things that we see and things that we
      cannot see, where should we stand?                                        In the path of justice.
49. Who is blind?                                                                          The learned man who does evil acts.
50. Who is deaf?                                                                           He who cannot hear good words.

 


 
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