DAY 212
Hunger Is Not the Only Death
기원전 1500~1200년경(구전 전승)
ORIGINAL
न वा उ देवाः क्षुधमिद्वधं ददुः (na vā u devāḥ kṣudham id vadhaṃ daduḥ)
📜 THE VERSE
Hunger alone is not ordained as our death: even to the well-fed comes death in many shapes.
❓ TODAY'S QUESTION
Because my own belly is full, am I pretending not to see the hunger beside me?
📝Reflection
This verse is startlingly realistic — even the well-fed die someday. So there is no reason to turn from the hungry just because my own store is full now. Death comes not only to the poor but to all. Before this equality the poet urges sharing. What I hold now is not mine forever, only entrusted for a while. Wealth cannot guard me from death. But how I shared that wealth while living remains, even after death.
— ONGO · Curator
🌱Apply It Today
Today take one thing you have in surplus and give it, without delay, to someone who truly needs it.
📖 Source:
Rigveda 10.117.1.
Sanskrit original with public-domain translations consulted; rendered independently by ONGO.
This verse is read as universal humanistic wisdom, not religion — no faith is promoted, and the reflection is 100% original ONGO content.
This verse is read as universal humanistic wisdom, not religion — no faith is promoted, and the reflection is 100% original ONGO content.
