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Friday, May 16, 2008

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कवि: वेद व्यास

Poet: Ved Vyas

Translation: the maVerick

यदा यदा हि धर्मस्य ग्लानिर्भवति भारत ।
अभ्युत्थानं अधर्मस्य तदात्मानं सृजाम्यहम ॥
Yada yada hi dharmasya
glanir bhavati bharata
Abhyutthanam adharmasya
tadatmanam srjamyaham

O Bharat! Whenever, wherever
dharma is corrupted, on the decline
And adharma takes hold, I
manifest myself, in an avatar mine

परित्राणाय साधूनां विनाशाय च दुष्कृताम ।
धर्म संस्थापनार्थाय सम्भवानि युगे युगे ॥

(महाभारत से)
Paritranaya saadhunam
vinashaya cha dushkrrtam
Dharm sansthapnarthaya
sambhavani yuge yuge
For the deliverance of the virtuous
and for destruction of evil
For the establishment of dharma
in every era, I become possible

(from the epic poem Mahabharata)


Hindi version - हिन्दी में
Translation: Anonymous
(Loose translation - transformation of first person to third person)

जब जब होए धरम की हानि
बाढ़ें असुर अधम अभिमानी
तब तब परभु ले मनुज सरीरा
नासें कस्ट हरें सब पीरा

Sunday, April 27, 2008

Karm (Duty)


कवि: वेद व्यास

Poet: Ved VyasTranslation: the maVerick
कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते मा फलेषु कदाचन।
मा कर्मफलहेतुर्भूर्मा ते संगोऽस्त्वकर्मणि॥

(महाभारत से)
Karmanyevadhikaraste ma faleshu kadachan
Ma karmfalheturburma te sangostvakarmane
You are entitled only to your assigned actions,
Don't hanker for the fruit of your labor
Do not think you caused the results,
And never from doing your duty waver

(from the epic poem Mahabharata)