2nd set shankara answers follows

[sunkan]

Verse 6 - Meaning:
Q: What spoils the mind (madhi) and brings down its efficiency like an alocholic drink ?
A: Love (or) Friendship (snehah) of the abnormal or extreme kind.

Q: What can be considered as thieves in a man ?
A:The Sense Objects that bog down the mind from its higher faculties (vishaya).

Q: What is the nature of the bhava (sagaram) , the vicious cycle of births and deaths ?
A:It is the continuing thirst of desires.

Q: Who is the enemy ? (ko vairi)
A:An idle disposition.
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Verse 7 - Meaning:
Q: What is the root cause of fear for all ?
A: Death (maranam)

Q: Who can be called as blindest of the blind? (andha is blind)
A:That one who is not free from all attachments and who rather sticks to them. (ragi).

Q: Who is the most brave one ? (kah suro)
A:That one who does not fall to the glancing-arrows (the intoxicating looks) of amorous women. (locana - eyes; banam-arrow)
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Verse 8 - Meaning:
Q: What should be considered as nectarine words by the ears ? (karnam - ears; amrutam - something nectarine or sweetest)
A: The advice of holy elders (sad upadesah)

Q: What makes one respectable?
A: A character that makes one abhor begging for favors (vishaya).
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Verse 9 - Meaning:
Q: What is too deep to be known ? (kim gahanam)
A: The nature of women (or what is behind a woman's mind) (stri-caritam)

Q: Who is the clever man ? (kah caturah)
A: One who does not become the slave of the influence of females.

Q: What is misery or worry ? (kim duhkham)
A: Getting dissatisfied with everything that one comes across. (a-santosah)

Q: What is it that makes one unworthy of all ? (kim laghavam)
A: The beggarly nature that cringes for favors from even the worst of men.

[pannu2000]

sunkan, very educational. Thanks for posting.
Q: What is the nature of the bhava (sagaram) , the vicious cycle of births and deaths ?
A:It is the continuing thirst of desires.

Does it mean desires of next birth or materialistic desires which are not fulfilled.

[sunkan]

yes pannu,
according to him the recycle is prevailant in souls who want something fulfilled, which had been void in this life. so each time one longs for that relation, he gets a rebirth to fulfill that, once the travel has been enough then the soul start reaching god and always seek him in all its action then i feel they are released, this is also according to him..they are saints with vision..sunkan

[malspie]

Sunkan

I can never beg for favours, it is extremely difficult for me, my soul refuses to go and ask for favours.

I also cannot apple polish people to get my things done, to be in their good books and earn name and fame.

I like to be my true self and earn on my merit not by calling people extra good and trying to cover up everyone's fault for the benefit of my growth.

I agree, the millions of rupees that goes in the hundi of the lords, is because of fear of death and sufferings.

If God announces, there will be no perishing on this earth and everyone will live immortally. there will be nothing like FEAR.

[sunkan]

Dear mals,
neither i or you have the authority over these recycle here, only a visionary like adi shankara can answer, and here i have not mentioned about how we are living life but if one is satisfied then one may not seek a birth again and one has to work at it.
the incidents that you say are about souls who have dreams and pangs so they do all these and i am sure there are souls like shankara who are trying to enlighten for the soul who is seeking those questions which is not answerable by all.
now may i say something, hope i do not hurt you but i felt should let you know though i do not have the authority to think so. may be you long to have your mother in your next janmam with you, some long for good husbands, some for children, some for peace of world, many things happen in this world and only the parandhaman himself can clear us...sunkan