This is a very rare thing but hardly ever anyone notices it. Talents are short lived. A person who possessed some special quality and talent are never lived longer. Referring to great artists, scientists, social reformers etc, of India and around the world are either short lived, sick or childless,.
Even I never notices this but after coming this sanskrit verses, I have few examples that proved this theory correct. Before looking the example, here the Sanskrit lines:
सर्वगुणैरूपपन्नः पुत्रः कस्यापि कुत्रचिद्भवति|
सोल्पायू रुग्णो वा ह्य्नपत्यो वा तथापि खेदाय||
Sarva-gunai-roopapannah putrah kasyaapi kutrachidbhavati.
solpaayuh rugno va hyanapatyo vaa tathaapi khedaaya.
my own editted picture
Sarvagunairupapannah = sarva + gunaih + upapannah.
Sarva = all.
Gunaih = qualities, virtues. Upapannah = possessed of.
Putrah = a child or a son.
Kasyaapi = kasya + api.
Kasya = whose.
Api = too, even (to emphasise) Kutrachidbhavati = Kutrachit + bhavati.
Kutrachit = anywhere.
Bhavati = happens.
Solpaayuh = sah + alpaayuh.
Sah = he.
Alpaayh = shortlived.
Rugno = sick.
Vaa = or.
Hyanapatyo = hi + anapatyo,
Hi = surely.
Anapatyo = childless.
Tathaapi = even then, yet.
Khedaaya = dejection, sadness.
These lines simply states that:
"If anybody anywhere begets a child who is very intelligent, virtuous and possessed of all the qualities, such a child is either short lived, sick or childless and is a cause of sadness or dejection to his parents."
This verses outlines this natural phenomenon nicely. It causes sadness to the family as well as to the society. Few of the examples that I notices are the Indian mathematician Ramaanujam, Shankarachaary, Swami Vivekaanand, scientist Stephan Hawking, former President A.P.J.Abdul Kalam etc. Their lifespan didn't lasted longer and they left us in midway after contributing great things to the world.
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