NEW DELHI: While replying to the Motion of Thanks to the President's address in Lok Sabha today, Prime Minister Narendra Modi cited poetry—from Sanskrit to popular Hindi—to take digs at the Congress party. The deer does not enter the mouth of a sleeping lion.PM Modi quoted this Sanskrit verse to highlight that even the Congress party had made good schemes, but it lacked the initiative to implement them properly which his government is doing now.Amantram aksharam naasti, naasti moolmanoshdham.Ayogya purusho naasti, yojakastatra durlabha.Translation: There is no letter of alphabet which cannot be used in a mantra, and no root which cannot be used as a medicine. There are no useless persons. Only the one who knows how to use them is scarce.PM Modi recited this Sanskrit verse to illustrate his point that even with old schemes and old system he has done much better than the previous governments .Yavat jivet, sukham jivet.Rinam kritwa, ghritam pivet.Translation: A verse from the Charvaka school of the ancient materialist philosophy, it says you live happily if you live in the present. I know what is adharma, yet I cannot leave it.PM Modi quoted this verse to highlight his point that the previous Congress governments knew well what India needed to progress but they did not do anything due to their inclinations and lack of abilities.

Source: Economic Times February 07, 2017 09:14 UTC