bursting at the seams?

स भारः सौम्य भर्तव्यो यो नरं नावसादयेत्।
तदन्नमपि भोक्तव्यं जीर्यते यद् अनामयं॥
श्रीमद्वात्मीकिरामायणं आरण्यकाण्डं  ५०--२७
sa bhāraḥ saumya bhartavyo yo naraṁ nāvasādayet|
tadannamapi bhoktavyaṁ jīryate yad anāmayaṁ||
śrīmadvātmīkirāmāyaṇaṁ āraṇyakāṇḍaṁ  50--27
സ ഭാര: സൌമ്യ ഭര്തവ്യം യോ നരം നാവസാദയെത്
തദ്‌ അന്നമപി ഭോക്തവ്യം ജീര്‍യതെ യദ് അനാമയം
One should undertake to bear only that much of load that he is capable of. Similarly one should eat food only to the extent it will maintain him without any illness.
It is the tendency of the overly ambitious persons to undertake to perform things far beyond their capacity.  In the end they are likely to fail and lose respectability.   The tendency to overeat is the cause of almost half the problems in this world

(In fact, this is an advice to Ravana by the wizened eagle Jatayu... when Ravana was trying to abduct Sita.. and the bird was trying to prevent the Demon from taking away Sita.. in the absence of Rama and Laksmana  who were drawn away by the ruse of the golden antelope.. a disguise enacted by Mareecha at the behest of Ravana)

അർത്ഥം

സുഹൃത്തെ, ഒരാൾക്ക് അയാൾ പൂർണ്ണമായും  തളരുകയോ തകരുകയോ ചെയ്യാത്തവിധം ചൂമക്കാൻ പറ്റുന്ന  ഭാരം  മാത്രമേ  അയാൾ  ചുമക്കാവൂ..ചുമക്കേണ്ടതൂള്ളൂ. 

അതുപോലെ  അയാൾ  കഴിക്കുന്നത് അയാളുടെ  ശരീരത്തിനു  രോഗം വരാതെ ..കാക്കുന്ന  അളവിലും  നിലവാരത്തിലുമുള്ള ഭക്ഷണം  മാത്രമായിരിക്കണം

(വാൽമീകി രാമായണത്തിൽ നിന്ന്)

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।श्रीकृष्णो रक्षतु।
|śrīkṛṣṇo rakṣatu|
Have a nice and happy day
with profound respect and warm regards
K V Ananthanarayanan
(kanfusion)
blog   http://kanfusion.blogspot.com/
त्यजन्तु बान्धवाः सर्वे निन्दन्तु गुरवो जनाःI
तदापि परमानन्दो गोविन्दो मम जीवनंII
let all my relatives abandon me, let the great people insult me, still I am in supreme bliss since my life  is GOVINDA alone.
Iकृष्णात् परं किमपि तत्वं अहं न जाने"I
लोकाः समस्ताः सुखिनो भवन्तु।
lokāḥ samastāḥ sukhino bhavantu|