Half-baked unwise vouch no words pleasing,
One-- frank, plain-speaking knows no cheating,
Greedless longs for no governing chair,
One-- desire-less aspires no pluming.
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Sanskrit Translation | 22.01.2026 | desire, frank, officer, wants, wise, quatrain
Note: Some quatrains called shlokas in Sanskrit are known as Subhaashhitams, words well-said. This one presents some practical wisdom on half-baked unwise, frank persons, and those desire-less. Transliteration is as under:
na avidagdhah priyam brooyaat,
sphuta-vaktaa na vañchakah |
nih-sprhah na adhikaari syaat,
na a-kaamee mandana priyah || Subhaashhitam ||
Kabir and Shivam – best friends tied
To another as a fly to honey when spied.
Gems of the world - all boys my pride
Are happy and make so when tried;
Jaimin and Aayush with all stride
Ahead to mark Bhavya deride.
Fenil and Jainam are charms and pride -
Intelligently innocent, and Jayesh’s guide.
Guide for me and class in our collide.
Aryan and Manan are silent asteroid
Who burst with Mahir and Nirav wide.
Priyam and Shiv are innocently flied
In hostel during tuitions and are allied
With Kabir who beside Shashant denied
To be a part of tuition, but with Shivam tried
To save skin, as did Shyam, by moving aside
When problems for Varneshiyas don’t subside.
Siddh, Dipesh and Bhavin – solid chloride;
Burst in class or ground if any belied.
All twenty dear and precious stones I vied
As my sweet angels in life without snide;
I hope they’ll never forget my bestride
For them and come in my bad cyanide.
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