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!!

Shanti / Peace Mantra.

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      It is believed that by chanting this mantra, we move from our personal self and radiate a prayer of love for the world around us. This Sanskrit mantra  is from one of the Mangala  (auspicious) Mantra often recited after a pooja, yoga or religious ceremony.

 

स्वस्तिप्रजाभ्यः परिपालयंतां न्यायेन मार्गेण महीं महीशाः ।

गोब्राह्मणेभ्यः शुभमस्तु नित्यं लोकाः समस्ताः सुखिनोभवंतु ॥

ॐ शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिः |

svasti-prajā-bhyaḥ pari-pāla-yaṁtāṁ nyāyena mārgeṇa mahīṁ mahīśāḥ |

go-brāhmaṇebhyaḥ śubham-astu nityaṁ lokāḥ samastāḥ sukhino-bhavaṁtu ||

auṁ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ |

“May all beings everywhere be happy and free, and may the thoughts, words, and actions of my own life contribute in some way to that happiness and to that freedom for all.”

Om peace, peace, peace

 

 

Passageways of the self

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Journeys bring power and love back into you.

If you can’t go somewhere, move into the passageways of the self.

They are like shafts of light, always changing,

and you will change when you explore them.

~ Rumi ❤ ❤

Goodbyes

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Goodbyes are only

for those who love

with their eyes.

Because…

for those who love

with their heart

and soul there is

no such thing as separation……..

~Rumi

Peace the highest enjoyment

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सन्तोषः परमो लाभः सत्सङ्गः परमा गतिः ।

विचारः परमं ज्ञानं शमो हि परमं सुखम् ॥

santoSaH paramo lAbhaH satsaGgaH paramA gatiH |
vicAraH paramaM jJAnaM zamo hi paramaM sukham ||

 

English Translation of Sanskrit Quote:

Contentment is the highest gain,
Good Company the highest course,
Enquiry the highest wisdom,
and

Peace the highest enjoyment.

 

~~Yoga Vasistha

Heart and Mind

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The mind says

there is nothing

beyond the physical world;

The HEART says there is,

and I’ve been there many times ……

~ Rumi

Yesterday and Today

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Yesterday I was clever,

so I wanted to change the world.

Today I am wise,

so I am changing myself.

 

~~ Rumi

Gita Summary- The Essence of life गीता सार

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Bhagavad Gita Summary

Whatever happened; happened for the good;

Whatever is happening; is happening for the good;

Whatever will happen; will also be for the good;

 

What did you lose that you cry about?

What did you bring with you that you have lost?

 

What did you create which is now destroyed?

 

Whatever you have taken; you have taken from here;

Whatever was given; was given only from here;

 

Whatever is your’s today was someone else’s yesterday;

It will be someone else’s tomorrow;

Change is the law of the Universe

 

 

जो हुआ, वह अच्छा हुआ। जो हो रहा है, वह अच्छा हो रहा है। जो होगा, वह भी अच्छा ही होगा।

तुम्हारा क्या गया, जो तुम रोते हो? तुम क्या लाये थे, जो तुमने खो दिया?

तुमने क्या पैदा किया था, जो नाश हो गया? न तुम कुछ लेकर आए,

जो लिया यहीं से लिया। जो दिया, यहीं पर दिया।

खाली हाथ आये, खाली हाथ चले।

जो आज तुम्हारा है, कल किसी और का था, परसों किसी और का होगा।

परिवर्तन संसार का नियम है।

 

Moon and the night.

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The

   moons

        stays

                bright,

                      when it

                                  doesn’t

                                              avoid

                                                     the night.

 ~ Rumi

Mirror

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If you  are

irritated by every rub,

how will your

mirror be polished?

~ Rumi

Poetry

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Poetry is a political act

because it involves

telling the truth.

~June Jordan