GRIHIT IV KESHESHU

Grihit iv kesheshu

                              "Ajaraamarwat praagyo vidyaamarthanch chintayet.Grihit iv kesheshu mritunaa dharma maacharet."

No one is ‘ajar= which cannot be old’ and ‘amar= which cannot die’. But the poet says that everyone should think himself ajar and amar while learning and earning. Suppose, a man knows that he will die the next day. For him everything is useless. There is no purpose to learn or earn. All these things relate to the body. Hence, while trying to earn these two, one should think as if he cannot be old and is immortal. But, the poet further utters, while doing dharma, one should act as if the death has caught his hair and he will  be killed at any moment. Here, 'dharma' means to help the helpless, orphans, handicaps and down troden. 'Paropkaaraay punyaay, paapay par peednam'. The great scholar Vyas is the writer of all the four Vedas, eighteen Puraanaas, the great epic Mahabharat etc. In all those shaastraas he has written only two things- 'To help others is punya and to give sorrow to others is greatest sin.' I think that very 'punya' is the dharma.

The meaning is symbolic. While doing things related to the physical world, never make hurry. While doing heavenly things (matter related to spiritualism- like helping others, doing good for the universe), always do hurry, never leave for tomorrow. "Kal kare so aaj kar, aaj kare so ab. Pal me parlay hoyagee bahuri karoge kab?"