Category: The School Of Life!

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!!

Only Breath

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 Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu Buddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religion or cultural system.

I am not from the Eastor the West, not out of the ocean or up from the ground,

not natural or ethereal, notcomposed of elements at all. I do not exist, am not an entity in this world or in the next,

did not descend from Adam and Eve or any origin story. My place is placeless, a traceof the traceless.

Neither body or soul. I belong to the beloved, have seen the two worlds as one and that one call to and know, first, last, outer, inner,

only that breath breathing human being.

Rumi ❤   From Essential Rumi by Coleman Barks

Image courtesy- Aneesh.

Kabir-Songs of a weaver 10

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सात समंदर की मसि करौं लेखनि सब बनराइ।
धरती सब कागद करौं हरि गुण लिखा न जाइ॥

अर्थ: कबीर कहते हैं कि यदि मैं इन सातों सागर को अपनी लेखनी के स्याही की तरह और इस धरती को एक कागज़ की तरह प्रयोग करें। फिर भी श्री हरी के गुणों को लिखा जाना सम्भव नहीं है।

Even if you wear to transform, the seven oceans into Ink, The world’s trees into pens, The whole earth into paper, You couldn’t write down the list of gods excellence.

 

Kabir Granthavali.

 

Solitude

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Spiritual joys come only from solitude,
So the wise choose the bottom of the well,
For the darkness down there beats
The darkness up here.
He who follows at the heels of the world
Never saves his head.

– Rumi ❤

Image courtesy- Aneesh

 

 

Echo

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A mountain keeps an echo deep inside.

That’s how I hold your voice.

❤️ Rumi

Don’t resist the change!

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Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come?

Rumi ❤️

touch

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Your breath touched my soul

and I saw beyond all limits.

 

Rumi ❤️

 

In your light….

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In your light, I learn how to love
in your beauty, how to make poems.

You dance inside my chest

where no one sees you,

but sometimes I do

and that sight becomes this art.

Rumi ❤

Doorway

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They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no walls?

Rumi ❤️

Do you know what you are ?

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Do you know what you are?
You are a manuscript of a divine letter.
You are a mirror reflecting a noble face.
This universe is not outside of you.
Look inside yourself;
everything that you want,
you are already that.

 


― ❤ Rumi, Hush, Don’t Say Anything to God: Passionate Poems of Rumi

Painting courtesy- Lily Sahay

your true origin 

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You think of yourself
as a citizen of the universe.
You think you belong 
to this world of dust and matter.
Out of this dust
you have created a personal image,
and have forgotten
about the essence of your true origin. 


― ❤  Rumi, Hush, Don’t Say Anything to God: Passionate Poems of Rumi