Only Breath- We Are Nothing But Breathing Human Beings

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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 East
or the West, not out of the ocean or up
from the ground, not natural or ethereal, not
composed 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 trace
of 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

Stay happy, healthy and safe – 21

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उद्धरेदात्मनाऽऽत्मानं नात्मानमवसादयेत्।

आत्मैव ह्यात्मनो बन्धुरात्मैव रिपुरात्मनः।।6.5।।

uddharedaatmanaatmaanam naatmaanamavasaadayet |
aatmaiva hyaatmano bandhuraatmaiva ripuraatmanaha || 6.5 ||

Translation: 
Uplift yourself by yourself, do not deprecate yourself.

For only you are your friend, and only you are your enemy.

Meaning:
In order to progress in the spiritual path, in fact, any undertaking, we have to lift ourselves by our own efforts. We are our own friend if we do so, and if we don’t, we become our own enemy. In other words, our success and failure is entirely in our hands. No other person can help or hurt us.

The Bhagavad Gita:

करोना का रोना !

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जान पर खेल कर जाना कहाँ है? बाहर का-रोना क्यों? बाहर कारोना है। कोरोना से जान बचाना है , क्योंकि जान है तो जहान है! तुम्हारी ज़िंदगी तुम्हारी है ज़िम्मेदारी. कुछ क-रोना ना करो, बस घर में रहो.

Pain will turn to medicine

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Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet,

through Love all that is copper will be gold,

through Love all dregs will become wine,

through Love all pain will turn to medicine.

❤️❤️– Rumi

Stay happy, healthy and safe – 20

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Look up,

laugh loud,

talk big

, keep the color in your cheek

and the fire in your eye,

adorn your person,

 maintain your health,

your beauty and your animal spirits.

William Hazlitt

Stay happy, healthy and safe- 19

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The doctor of the future will give no medicines,

but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame,

in diet, and in the causes and prevention of disease.

 

Thomas Edison

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stay happy, healthy and safe – 18

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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing:

the last of human freedoms –

to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances,

to choose one’s own way.

 

Viktor E. Frankl

Stay happy, healthy and safe – 17

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सत्यमेव जयते नानृतं सत्येन पन्था विततो देवयानः।

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

Stay happy, healthy and safe – 16

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उध्दरेदात्मनात्मानम्।

udhdaredātmanātmānam।

Save yourself by yourself.

स्वंय से अपनी रक्षा स्वंय करो।

Swami Vivekananda

चिड़ियों की मीटिंग

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अहले सुबह नींद खुली मीठी, गूँजती आवाज़ों से.

देखा बाहर परिंदों की सभा है.

शोर मचाते-बतियाते किसी गम्भीर मुद्दे पर, सभी चिंतित थे

– इन इंसानों को हुआ क्या है?

बड़े शांत हैं? नज़र भी नहीं आते?

कहीं यह तूफ़ान के पहले की शांति तो नहीं?

हाल में पिंजरे से आज़ाद हुए हरियल मिट्ठु तोते ने कहा –

ये सब अपने बनाए कंकरीट के पिंजरों में क़ैद है.

शायद हमारी बद्दुआओं का असर है.