Laziness - Alasya

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" Alasya Kutoh Vidya, Avidhya Kutoh Dhanam!
  Adhanam Kutoh Mitram, Amitram kutoh Sukham!!"
I would add here " Asukham kutoh Jeevanam".

This is old sanskrit saying that Laziness is the obstacle for knowledge, Money cant be earned without knowledge, No friends without Money and thus no happiness without friends. I added "No life without happiness". 

I presume this saying must be more than 1000 years old . Even in those days, we indians knew the importance of knowledge. In those days too our ancestors knew that Money is important ingredient for friendship or may be social relationships. Also that to be happy in life, we should have friends. Is n't it 100% fact in present days. So what has changed in last couple of thousand years? Have we grown beyond that or at the same level. Probably, we have gone down that level. Still we feel that we have made progress and reached to Moon or Mars. Probable one day we would reach to Sun also, but do you think above saying would change even 1%? I doubt and hence agree that laziness is one of the major cause for failure and dissatisfaction in the life. Another important thing from the above saying is that laziness in the initial years of education affects much more than the later on years and hence the saying about Vidya is more for the young students. I wish we teach them not to be lazy in initial years. It does not mean that laziness during lateral part of life is acceptable. Rather I would say that impact of laziness for earning members can be measured up easily.

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