Many people are of envious nature and they get it hard to digest other people success. They feel downgraded and alwsys try to harm or try pull the other person down. This is one of the bitter truth of mankind and have been continuing since ages. A person cannot see the success of other person. Seeing this a common human behaviours, our Sanskrit scholars have following to say:
ऊर्ज्जितं सज्जनं दृष्ट्वा द्वेष्टि नीचः पुनःपुनः|
कवलीकुरुते स्वस्थं विधुं दिवि विधुंतुदः||
Oorjitam sajjananam drushtvaa dveshti neechah punahpunah.
Kavaleekurute svastham vidhum divi vidhumtudah.
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Oorjitam = powerful, excellent. Sajjanaanaam = noble and
virtuous persons,
Drushtvaa = on seeing.
Dveshti = hatred.
Neechah = a wicked and mean person. Punahpunah = again and again.
Kavalee = swallowing, devouring.
Kurute = does.
Svastham = comfortable, healthy.
Vidhum = the Moon.
Divi = sky.
Vidhuntudah = Rahu, an imaginary planet (called Dragon's head in Astronmy,which causes the eclipse of the Moon when it is in full bloom).
"On seeing a powerful, noble and virtuous person, mean and wicked persons develop hatred towards him and try to harm him again and again just like the Dragon's head, which devours the Moon when it is at his brightest best."
By using the metaphor of a Lunar eclipse the author has expressed the tendency of hatred and envy among wicked and mean
persons towards noble and virtuous persons. Gosvami Tulasi Das, a Hindi poet has used this simile in a different way by saying that one should not take lightly his enemy, however insignificant he may be, because a beheaded demon Rahu still torments both the Sun and Moon by devouring them (reference to Solar and Lunar eclipses)
Instead of getting envious we must applaud and try to be like them or become a part of their succcess story.
