SRI AUROBINDO
Translations
from Sanskrit and Other Languages
Kalidasa
Bhartrihari. The Century of Life
On Wisdom
Kind to be, yet immutably be just;
To find all baser act too hard to do,–
Yea, though not doing shatter our life to dust; –
Contempt that will not to the evil sue;
Not to the friend that’s poor our need to state;
Baffled by fortune still erect to stand;
Being small to tread in footprints of the great;
Who for weak men such rugged path has planned,
Harder to tread than edge of this sharp brand?