DAY 285

Choose Comfort or Learning — You Cannot Keep Both

Subhashita (Traditional Sanskrit Maxims)

기원후 4세기~중세 편찬(전통적으로 차나키야에 귀속)

ORIGINAL

सुखार्थी चेत्त्यजेद्विद्यां विद्यार्थी चेत्त्यजेत्सुखम् । सुखार्थिनः कुतो विद्या कुतो विद्यार्थिनः सुखम् ॥ (sukhārthī cet tyajed vidyāṃ vidyārthī cet tyajet sukham, sukhārthinaḥ kuto vidyā kuto vidyārthinaḥ sukham)

📜 THE VERSE

If you want comfort, give up learning; if you want learning, give up comfort — how can comfort-seekers have learning, or learning-seekers have comfort?

💡 TL;DR

This verse states an uncomfortable truth honestly — growth always comes with a price, and that price is usually today's comfort.

❓ TODAY'S QUESTION

Am I trying to have both comfort and growth at once, and ending up with neither?

📝Reflection

This verse states an uncomfortable truth honestly — growth always comes with a price, and that price is usually today's comfort. Trying to have both often leaves me with neither, done properly. If I want to gain something, I must first decide what I am willing to set down.

— ONGO · Curator

🌱Apply It Today

For the sake of something you want to gain, decide on one comfort you will willingly set down today.

📖 Source: Subhashita (Traditional Sanskrit Maxims). 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.