DAY 248
How the Wise Spend Time, How Fools Waste It
기원후 5세기경(바르트리하리 니티샤타카)
ORIGINAL
काव्यशास्त्रविनोदेन कालो गच्छति धीमताम् । व्यसनेन च मूर्खाणां निद्रया कलहेन वा ॥ (kāvyaśāstravinodena kālo gacchati dhīmatām, vyasanena ca mūrkhāṇāṃ nidrayā kalahena vā)
📜 THE VERSE
The wise spend their time in the delight of poetry and learning; the foolish, in vice, sleep, or quarrel.
❓ TODAY'S QUESTION
Over the past week, which side did most of my time flow toward?
📝Reflection
The same twenty-four hours fill one person with the joy of learning and leak away from another in sleep and quarrel. What makes this verse sharp is that it frames time not as something stolen but as something we let flow away. Foolishness is rarely one dramatic event — it is the accumulation of small daily neglect. What fills our time decides who we become.
— ONGO · Curator
🌱Apply It Today
Find ten minutes today that would have leaked into idleness, sleep, or quarrel, and redirect it into learning.
📖 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.
This verse is read as universal humanistic wisdom, not religion — no faith is promoted, and the reflection is 100% original ONGO content.
