Life is an endless voyage!! A voyage for which even the skilled mariner cant build a compass predicting the exact directions it may take! No cartographer has ever drawn an atlas locating the territories we may travel to! Because in the voyage of life your fortunes will travel up north one Sunday and on Monday it will head south bringing you misfortunes! You might have planned ahead to reach the summit but the voyage of life would have another plans taking you to uncharted territories when you least expect it! The Schools or the Streets don’t provide you answers for the questions life throws at you!! Not Self help books but the Past masters who summed up the meaning of life succinctly in beautiful verses are your Beacons of Hope here! Through their clairvoyance they convey great lessons about what really matters in life aphoristically but cryptically of course!!
satyameva jayate nānṛtaṃ satyena panthā vitato devayānaḥ।
Truth alone triumphs, not falsehood.
Through Truth lies Devayâna- the path of gods.
असत्य नहीं, सत्य हमेशा विजयी होता है।
सत्य देवताओं तक जाने का मार्ग है।
Source – Mundaka, III. i. 6
udhdaredātmanātmānam।
Save yourself by yourself.
स्वंय से अपनी रक्षा स्वंय करो।
Swami Vivekananda
ātmānaṃ satataṃ rakṣet।
One must save oneself under any circumstances.
हर परिस्थति में अपनी, स्वंय की सुरक्षा जरुर करें।
Source – Swami Vivekananda in a letter to Sj. Balaram Bose (5th January 1890)
image courtesy- Chandni Sahay.
Transliteration:
utiṣṭhata। jāgrata। prāpya varānnibodhata।
English Translation:
Arise. Awake. And stop not till the goal is reached.
Hindi Translation:
उठो। जागो।
और तब तक नहीं रुकना जब तक लक्ष्य हासिल न हो।
Swami Vivekananada
Our greatest happiness does not depend
on the condition of life
in which chance has placed us,
but is always the result of a good conscience,
good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
I swear, since seeing Your face,
the whole world is fraud and fantasy
The garden is bewildered as to what is leaf or blossom.
The distracted birds
can’t distinguish the birdseed from the snare.
A house of love with no limits,
a presence more beautiful than venus or the moon,
a beauty whose image fills the mirror of the heart.
Rumi, The Divani Shamsi Tabriz XV
