Wednesday 19 December, 2007

நான்

எளிதினும் எளிதாய்
அரிதினும் அரிதாய்
கருணையின் மெல்லிய வாசமாய்
கைகொள்ளவோ சக்தியின் பிரவாகமாய்
மேலான இதற்கு வெட்கமுமில்லை
பாவ புண்ணியக் கரைகளும் இல்லை
ஏறவே முடியாத முகடு போல் தோன்றலாம்
ஆனால் எளிதில் அணுகக்கூடிய பாலம்தான்
எல்லாம் கடந்த நிலைக்குப் பயணமாக முடியும்
உங்களைவிட்டு வந்திட முடிந்தால் மட்டும்!
- சத்குரு ஜக்கி வாசுதேவ்

Thursday 21 June, 2007

At Fifteen

The Master said, "At fifteen, I had my mind bent on learning.

"At thirty, I stood firm.

"At forty, I had no doubts.

"At fifty, I knew the decrees of Heaven.

"At sixty, my ear was an obedient organ for the reception of truth.

"At seventy, I could follow what my heart desired, without
transgressing what was right."

- Confucius

Thought

"All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him.
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought,
happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him."

- Gautama Buddha

Friday 23 March, 2007

What is at rest is easy to hold

What is at rest is easy to hold.
What manifests no omens is easily forestalled.
What is fragile is easily shattered.
What is small is easily scattered.

Tackle things before they have appeared.
Cultivate peace and order before confusion and disorder have set in.

A tree as big as a man's embrace springs from a tiny sprout.
A tower nine stories high begins with a heap of earth.
A journey of a thousand leagues starts from where your feet stand.

He who fusses over anything spoils it.
He who grasps anything loses it.
The Sage fusses over nothing and therefore spoils nothing.
He grips at nothing and therefore loses nothing.

In handling affairs, people often spoil them just at the point of success.
With heedfulness in the beginning and patience at the end, nothing will be spoiled.

Therefore the Sage desires to be desireless,
Sets no value on rare goods,
Learns to unlearn his learning,
And induces the masses to return from where they have overpassed.
He only helps all creatures to find their own nature,
But does not venture to lead them by the nose.
- Lao Tzu

Friday 2 February, 2007

India

She wore a raiment of
so many a hue
An unfamiliar eye would
think she is madness true
Her children are such
multi-flavored stew
This amalgamation of culture
a heady brew
Isn’t man just an outcrop of
the land that his forefathers slew
It’s antiquated history
of blood & beauty knew
A faraway visitor here saw
what man or god could ever do
Now it is time that you & me
blow life & breath anew.
- Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

Thursday 1 February, 2007

Who am I?

How many blows are needed in life for one to know to the very depths that one is nothing, that one can do nothing, that one does not exist, that one is nothing, that there is no entity without the divine Consciousness and the Grace. From the moment one knows it, it is over; all the difficulties have gone. When one knows it integrally and there is nothing which resists... but till that moment... And it takes very long.
- The Mother Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Puducherry

Poet

To clothe the fiery thought
In simple words succeeds,
For still the craft of genius is
To mask a king in weeds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson