Inspiration

"When you are inspired by some great purpose,some extraordinary project ,
all your thoughts break their bonds:your mind transcendents limitation,your conciousness expands in every direction,and you find yourself in a new great and wonderful world.
Dormant forces ,faculties and talents become alive,and you discover yourself to be a great person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be"

Patanjali[the father of yoga]


thanks to Ajaysingniranjan

Shree

In His time

In His time,in His time
He makes all things beautiful in His time
O Lord show me everyday,
as You're teaching me Your way,
That You do just what You say in Your time.

In Your time,in Your time,
You make all things meaningful in Your time,
O Beloved my life to You I bring,
With its winter and its spring,
May I fathom everything in Your time.

There's a time,there's a time
Both for sowing and for reaping,there's time
Time for giving ,time for gain,
Time for joy and time for pain,
Every purpose under heaven has a time.


There are time ,there are days
Weeks and months we can't understand His ways,
If for years we fail to scan
What is His eternal plan,
We'll remember that He can,all the time.


Theme taken from a Bangla hymn


Shree

Celebrate differences

Often people say they are upset that life is full of contradictions.
But life is not so small that we can put it into compartments like good and bad,right and wrong,
black and white or evil and noble.
Life is vast,so vast that it is big enough to include contradictions in its fold.
One has to accept them gracefully and at the same time change whatever is possible.
We have to learn to accept what cannot be changed.
While we were discussing differences,let us also accept the fact that the context of a relationship should be one of love and not of expectations.
Love has to go through transformation and purification.
Only then would we find that we are bigger than our differences.
One should be creative in a relationship
Learn to enjoy the differences.
The most important aspect in a relationship is that we should stand for inner growth and not of ego.
We can operate either for personality or from innocence.
Personality come from ego while innocence comes from childlike nature.
That which arises out of ego makes one feel heavy whereas what arises out of childlike innocence
makes one feel light.
When we operate from innocence our logic will have a different lustre,our understanding would have a different aura.It becomes divine.
Life is an adventure---get into it
Life is a struggle--make it sacred
Life is a tragedy--grow from it
Life is a beauty--feel it
Life is a bliss--experience it

(Taken from Swami Sukhabodhananda's article)

Kashmiri Shaivaites

According to the school of Kashmiri Shaivaites entitled Spanda,the central role for a human devotee is not played by Shiva but by the Shakti.This is not paradoxicalbecause in the spiritual vision of Shaivism ,Shiva and Shakti are not two separate realities.
Shiva and Shakti are two in oneand they seem separate only for the ignorant and limited mindthat is subjectedto duality.

In truth Shiva is Shakti and Shakti is Shiva,when we have conciousness,there is energy.
When we have energy there is conciousness,who animates that energy.
Therefore for the aspirant to spiritual liberation,the instrument[path]is Shakti
and not Shiva.
Shiva is the trancendent aspect of the divine being ,beyond any mental representation.
anything we could imagine about Shiva is not Shiva because Shiva cannot be defined,cannot be thought,cannot be revoked.
The tale about Shiva splitting into two halves of male and female indicates the origin of Ardhanarishwar
the union of spirit of material,the Being and its force.He is above spirit and material.
Shiva is also described as Anaadi[without beginning/birth] and Ananta[without end/death].


Shree

Lal tuktukey polash gachhtalay

Kabey je dekhechhilam ,
Lal tuktukey futanto polash gachh talay,
Maa gorchhey ruti ar chheleymeyera ,
gol hoye ghirey achhey ganganey ununer charpashe.
Tader mukher hashi ,khuchro katha ,
matiye tulechhey gachhtalata.

Rannaghar nei otheyr,
tatey ki holo?
Achhena gachhtalata?
Maati diye nikono porishkar uthoner dharey.

Sharadin rickshaw chaliye haklanto baba ,
enechhey kilokhanek aata,gamchhay bendhey.
Diner sheshey tai diye gora hochhey ruti,
fulko,fulko.......garom.
Shabthekey pichhita maar pithey jhultey ,jhultey bolchhey....
Maa rey ar ekta ruti de na Maa...

Porishromer telghameychakchak korchheyMaa..er mukh.
Chokhey ashey jal ghoniye ,
buker bhetorey uthalpathal kortey thakey.......
Shob...i to gonagunti..
shei kon shokaley kochider mukhe tuley ditey
perechhilo aj pantabhat kanchalanka mekhey.

Ajkal ar bhagchashey hoyna kichhu..i,
Tai Maakeo khattey berotey hoy roj..i,
Kolerta..key pithey bendhey.
Shob kaj..er sheshey
Maa boshey ,
shishuder akkhor porichoy koraye,
gaan gay ghumparani ar galpo boley jinporider...
Doridrer songsharey ei to anek.

Nun antey panta furono ei deshey,
koti,koti baritey ....
roj..i shona jaye shei ek...i karun abdar....
Maa rey ar ekta ruti de na maa.
tai jakhon..i lal tuktukey polash gachhey chhokh porey,
kaney bejey othey .....oi ekti katha,
Maa rey ar ekta ruti de na maa.

[sotti ghatona abolambaney]


Shree

Again Rumi

The breeze of dawn has secrets to tell you.
Don't go back to sleep.
You must ask for what you really want.
Don't go back to sleep.

People are going back and forth
across the doorsill,
where the two worlds touch.
the door is round and open ,
Don't go back to sleep.

From The Essential Rumi 'translation by Coleman Barks with John Moyne 1995 chap:4

Be content with own nothingness

Let me drown myself in solitude,
alone in a crowd,
and be content with own nothingness.
No fame,no recognition,
no rose petals to shower ,
No pain in the heart only
be content with own nothingness.
With so much peace within,
nothing can come between,
me and my nothingness.

Its a Divine Gift,
the journey of discovering oneself from within.
By lifting the veil on my heart,
and my offered prayer and the loving work ,
of my two weak hands.......You are teaching me to remember,
who am I in this karmic cycle of my life,
and be content with own nothingness.

Shree