Vaat 6.103
Swamini Vato Prakaran 6 Vaat 103 · 6 · Verse 103
Sanskrit Original
Jem sutārnu man bāvaḷiye ne jem dūbaḷā vāṇiyāne ajame hāth, em Bhagwānne rājī karavā karavu, ne have to kriyāne gauṇ rākhavī ne Bhagwānne pradhān rākhavā. Ne kathāne ne kriyāne ver chhe, māṭe bey bheḷu to thāy ja nahī; ne kare to vṛutti sthir rahe ja nahī. Footnotes: 1. 1. Suthāranā mananī vṛutti bāvaḷ arthāt jemānthī lākaḍun maḷī shake evā koī paṇ vṛukṣhamān hoya chhe. Te koī paṇ vṛukṣhane jue tyāre emānthī keṭalun lākaḍun maḷī shake ane lākaḍāmānthī shun shun banī shake tevo j vichār karyā kare. Ek garīb vāṇiyānī dukānamān kevaḷ ajamo j hato. Tethī je koī grāhak game te vastu levā āve to tene ajamo j āpe. Dukānamān ajamā sivāya kashun hatun j nahīn, tethī te jyān hāth nākhe, tyān ajamo j hāthamān āve.
‘Jem suthārnu man bāvaliyo’ and ‘Jem dublā Vāniyāne ajme hāth.’1 Similarly, have a single aim to please God. And now keep worldly activities as secondary and God at the forefront. There is rivalry between spiritual discourses and worldly activities, so both cannot be done together. And if one tries to do both, then one’s attention does not remain stable. Footnotes: 1. 1. We should focus only on God, just as a carpenter has his attention riveted only on the wood of baval trees and a poor merchant who does not have anything else in his shop always offers only ajmo as medicine for the treatment of all diseases.