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Thursday 5 May 2011

Difference between good and wicked people

विद्या विवादाय धनम् मदाय शक्तिः परॆषां परिपीडनाय ।
खलस्य साधॊरिवपरीतमॆतत् ज्ञानाय दानाय च रक्षणाय ॥

लॊकॆ सज्जनाः विद्यां धनम् शक्तिं संपादयंति । दुर्जनाः अपि विद्यां संपादयंति धनं संपादयंति शक्तिं अपि संपादयंति । किंतु तॆषु कः कस्य निमित्तं तस्य उपयॊगं करॊति ऎतत् चिंतनीयम् । दुर्जनाः विद्या उपयॊगं विवादाय कुर्वंति धनस्य उपयॊगं मदाय कुर्वंति शक्तॆः उपयॊगं अन्यॆषाम् दुर्बलानां पीडनाय कुर्वंति । परंतु सज्जनाः व्यवहारं यॆतत् विपरीतया भवति । तॆषां विद्या ज्ञानाय भवति । तैः संगृहीतं धनम् यदस्ति तद् दानाय उपयुक्तं भवति । ऎवमॆव् तैः संपादिता या शक्तिः अस्ति तस्याः उपयॊगः अन्यॆषां दुर्बलानां रक्षणाय ऎव भवति ।

vidyA vivAdAya dhanam madAya SaktiH parEShAM paripIDanAya |
Kalasya sAdhOrivaparItamEtat j~jAnAya dAnAya ca rakShaNAya ||


lOkE sajjanAH vidyAM dhanam SaktiM saMpAdayaMti | durjanAH api vidyAM saMpAdayaMti dhanaM saMpAdayaMti SaktiM api saMpAdayaMti | kiMtu tEShu kaH kasya nimittaM tasya upayOgaM karOti Etat ciMtanIyam | durjanAH vidyA upayOgaM vivAdAya kurvaMti dhanasya upayOgaM madAya kurvaMti SaktEH upayOgaM anyEShAm durbalAnAM pIDanAya kurvaMti | paraMtu sajjanAH vyavahAraM yEtat viparItayA Bavati | tEShAM vidyA j~jAnAya Bavati | taiH saMgRuhItaM dhanam yadasti tad dAnAya upayuktaM Bavati | EvamEv taiH saMpAditA yA SaktiH asti tasyAH upayOgaH anyEShAM durbalAnAM rakShaNAya Eva Bavati |



Translation:


In this world good people acquire education, money and power.  Wicked People also acquire education, earn money; they also acquire power.  But it is important to know between them who uses these [education, money and power] where!  Wicked people use their education in quarreling with others; they use their money in satisfying their ego; they use their power to trouble the people who are weak and helpless.   But good people do the opposite!  Their education results in knowledge [for the welfare]; they use their money in donation.  Same way, the good peopele use their power to rescue the weak and hapless people who are in trouble.


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Apply this context to what is going on in Libya.  Said Gaddafi [the famous second son of the dictator]  got educated in the prestigious London School of Economics [LSE]  but he used his education to plot on how to trouble his own people and how to trouble them.  He used his money to satify his ego in constructing palaces which costs enormous amount of state money [while at the same time his citizens are suffering].  He used his military power to slaughter his own citizens who are weak and helpless.

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