Two verses from Vairagya Sathakam of Bharthru hari

Two  verses  from Vairagya  Sathakam  of Bharthru hari

Translated by

P.R.Ramachander

(samudhra guptha was a great king.He had four wives  , one from each caste. His eldest son Bharthru hari was from His hudra wife.In the death bed  Samudhra guptha  was seen crying.When Bharthru hari asked why, he told  that if his son from Shudra  wife gets a son, he will go to hell.Bharthru hari promised  that  he will not have a son. He married 1000 ladies  and practiced  family planning  .At that  time he wrote a  book called  Sringara  SAtakam( 100  verses  of love).Once  a  saint gave him  a very special sweetest mango fruit. Bharthruhari gave it to  the queen he most loved.In the evening , he saw that  one maid servant was carrying this special fruit keeping it on the top of her cow dung pot . When Bharthru hari made  enquirues, he found out that , his horseman was lover his  queen and so she gave the  fruit to him. The maid servant whom he saw was the lover of the horseman and so he gave it to her,

Bharthru hari took Sanyasa , gave the kingdom to Vikramadhithya   and went away  .After  taking Sanyasa  he wrote another  great book called  Vairagya SAtakam-0 the hundred verses of renunciation. These  two oft quoted verses    are from Vairagya Satakam)

आदित्यस्य गतागतैरहरहः संक्षीयते जीवितं
व्यापारैर्बहुकार्यभारगुरुभिः कालोऽपि न ज्ञायते ।
दृष्ट्वा जन्मजराविपत्तिमरणं त्रासश्च नोत्पद्यते
पीत्वा मोहमयीं प्रमादमदिरामुन्मत्तभूतं जगत् 

Though with the rising  , movement  and setting of Sun  Life  gets shortened,

With   the burden   several   day to day activities, we do not feel the passage of time,

And even seeing  birth , aging , accidents and death , fear  is not felt in the mind,

Drinking  the intoxicating  wine   of delusion, this world  has become insane.

आशा नाम नदी मनोरथजला तृष्णातरङगाकुला
रामग्राहवती वितर्कविहगा धैर्यद्रुमध्वंसिनी
मोहावर्तसुदुस्तराऽतिगहना प्रोत्तुङगचिन्तातटी
तस्याः पारगता विशुद्धमनसो नन्दन्ति योगश्वराः

There is a river called desire,  fancies of the mind   is its water, the thirst  for more are its waves,

It is filled with the terrible   fishes  of desire   and passion,

Argument and counter arguments puts a stop to its flow,

One wave of this  river uproots the tree of courage of man,

Desire and passion drags him     to the land of   complete ignorance,

And there he dashes   against  the rocky reefs   of thought 

And the great yogis  cross   this  river  with pure mind and meditation .