A thing of beauty is a joy for ever

कनकभूषणसंग्रहणोचितो

यदि मणिस्त्रपुणि प्रणिधीयते।

न स विरौति न चापि न शोभते

भवति रोचयितुर्वचनीयता॥

सुभाषितशतके॥

kanakabhūṣaṇasaṁgrahaṇocito

yadi maṇistrapuṇi praṇidhīyate|

na sa virauti na cāpi na śobhate

bhavati rocayiturvacanīyatā||

subhāṣitaśatake||

A very relistic evaluation of the ways of the world.. a worthy subhashitam

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meaning

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A precious gem, which deserves to be studded prominently and mounted on an ornament made of pure gold , if it is mounted on a metallic base of tin, still, it shines..

The gem does not complain, nor it fails to shine with its natural glow..

But such action just gives a bad name for the one who joined the prized gem with the cheap metal..

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A thing of beauty is a joy for ever.. said John Keats..

A thing of real worth would contnue to be so wherever it finds itself..The lotus blooming on mud is still beautiful..

And a noble soul never complains too.. whatever may be the circumatances..

But in this world of false pretension and misplaced priorities, the best and the noblest find themselves stacked with ordinary or even bad things..

This situation is perpetrated by thoughtless persons who are in positions where such wrong placements are possible..

At the end of the day, the worthy personage retains his worth and even enhances it, but people laugh at and even curse the fellow who failed to give proper respect and the appropriate status to the one who deserved it..

But history repeats.. and the best are often relegated to obliviion, although they do not care about it, nor do they complain..

And the showy but worthless people often shine.. where it is not deserved..

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Regards

k v ananthanarayanan.