अलिरयं नलिनिदलमयम: कमलिनिीमकरन्दमदालस:।
विध्विशात्प्रदेशमुपागत: कुरजपुष्परसं बहु मन्यते ।।
Alirayam Nalinidalamadhyama Kamalaneemakarandamadaalasah |
Vidhivashaatpradeshmupaagatah Kurajpushparasam Bahu Mannyate ||
This bee used to dwell among the lotus-petals and survived on imbibing the sap of the flowers. For some reason, it had to come to the foreign strand and now it regards a great gift to even the juice of the Kuruj flower.
When dwelling among the lotus-petals, the bee considered even the sap of the lotus to be an ordinary thing. But when, due to some reason, it has to go away to the foreign strands, it began to deem even the Kuruj-flower-sap to be a great gift, i.e., when someone belonging to a high and rich family falls on evil days, he realizes the importance of the past pleasures and compromises with existing fallen standard of living. Helplessness makes one regard even the common place or even inferior things as the great gifts.
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