Author: Rekha Sahay

The Ramayana’s message is not that we passively give in to Destiny, but that we gallantly stick to Duty.

Chaitanya Charan Das, Wisdom from The Ramayana: On Life and Relationships

धीराःशोकं तरिष्यन्ति लभन्ते सिद्धिमुत्तमं | धीरैः संप्राप्ते लक्ष्मी: धैर्यं सर्वत्र साधनम् ||

अर्थ – बहादुर और ऊर्जावान व्यक्ति शोक रूपी सागर को तैर कर सफलता और धन सम्पत्ति पा लेते हैं | इसी लिये कहा गया है कि धैर्य हर परिस्थिति या विपरीत परिस्थितियों पर सफलता पाने का सर्वोत्तम उपाय है |

Brave and energetic people are able to fathom the ocean of sorrows and achieve success in their endeavors and become rich, It is true that patience and courage are the best means of achieving success in every field during adversity.

Only the timid and the weak leave things to destiny but the strong AND the self-confident never bank on destiny or luck.

– Ramayana, Lakshmana to Rama

To be happy always is something which is difficult to achieve. That is to say, happiness and sorrow alternate in one’s life and there cannot be uninterrupted happiness alone.

Ramayana

Human behavior flows from three main sources; desire, emotion, and knowledge.

– Plato

The purpose of life, therefore, is the realizing of that prophecy; the unveiling of the immortal man; the birth of the spiritual from the psychical, whereby we enter our divine inheritance and come to inhabit Eternity. This is, indeed, salvation, the purpose of all true religion, in all times. Patanjali.

― Patañjali, The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali