Readings: Brihadaranyaka Upanishad Verse 4.4.5

अथो खल्वाहुः काममय एवायं पुरुष इति; स यथाकामो भवति तत्क्रतुर्भवति, यत्क्रतुर्भवति तत्कर्म कुरुते, यत्कर्म कुरुते तदभिसंपद्यते

बृहदारण्यक उपनिषद् Verse 4.4.5

You are what your deep, driving desire is. As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny

  #Brihadaranyaka #Upanishad Verse 4.4.5

Poem - Yaar main hoon यार मैं हूँ

फिर अपनी बात कहने को
तैयार मैं हूँ
तू है उस पार तो
इस पार मैं हूँ

बता सकता हूँ मैं सब कुछ
यहाँ से वहां तक
वहां से यहाँ तक भी समझता हूँ
समझदार मैं हूँ

ना जाने ये दूरी कैसी है
तुझमे - मुझमे  क्या पता
जो सुनाई देती है तुझे
वो  पुकार मैं हूँ

मुझे साथ लेकर चलता है
तू आदतन
तेरी यादों की गलियों का
अब भी यार मैं हूँ
 
© Ratish
14th Dec 2019

Reading: Vigyan Bhairava Tantra Shloka 18 विज्ञान भैरव तंत्र श्लोक 18

  विज्ञान भैरव तंत्र श्लोक 18 

Vigyana Bhairava Tantra is one chapter of Rudrayamala Tantra (रुद्रयामल तंत्र). Vigyana Bhairava Tantra reveals 112 practices for entering in the universal consciousness. 

As the possessor of energy is always indistinguishable (अभेद ) from the energy. In the same way all aspects of Shiva (तत् धर्म) are held by supreme energy (Parvati - धर्मि)

जिस प्रकार शक्ति एवं शक्तिमान में सदैव अभेद रहता है उसी धर्म - धर्मि स्वरूप में शिव भी परा शक्ति पार्वती में स्थित हैं। 

Poem: I don't trust That but This is true

I don't trust That but This is true
In time This should also be your point of view
While That has some good points it is largely bad
That is logically flawed and existentially sad

This is something much more refined
You can believe it with  your heart and mind
If you took best points from That and the other
It will eventually lead to This all together 

You may swear on the truth of This right now
The veracity of That eludes you somehow

This, That the other and then some more
Form a part of one indivisible whole
Very easily That can transform to This
Given a different person, time or place

© Ratish
Pune
1st Nov 2019

Couplets: रंग या रूह Body or Spirit

 
जिसे हैरत से देखते थे कभी
चीज़े वह जानी  पहचानी हैं


किरदारों को गौर से देखो
सब की एक ही कहानी है

कुछ नया नज़र नहीं आता  
ये मेरी आँख ही पुरानी है

हो रंग या रूह हो तुम
जैसी  सोच वैसी  ज़िंदगानी है

Things that used to amaze 
Are now matter of routine

If you observer closely
Everyone's story is the same

I do not see anything new
My views have matured

Are you a body or spirit?
Response to this guides your life



© Ratish

6th July 2019
Pune

Reading: Marcus Aurelius #Meditations

Receive without pride, let go without attachment  

You cannot lose another life than the one you’re living now, or live another one than the one you’re losing

Most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you’ll have more time, and more tranquillity. Ask yourself at every moment, ‘Is this necessary?

It’s silly to try to escape other people’s faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.  

Consider that as the heaps of sand piled on one another hide the former sands, so in life the events which go before are soon covered by those which come after. 

When you’ve done well and another has benefited by it, why like a fool do you look for a third thing on top - credit for the good deed or a favor in return?

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Not to live as if you had endless years ahead of you. Death overshadows you. While you’re alive and able - be good

Our actions may be impeded . . . but there can be no impeding our intentions or dispositions. Because we can accommodate and adapt. The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting.

The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way. 

When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can’t tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil, and have recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own—not of the same blood or birth, but the same mind, and possessing a share of the divine. And so none of them can hurt me

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength

Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one. 

Every event is the right one. Look closely and you’ll see.

Your mind will take the shape of what you frequently hold in thought, for the human spirit is colored by such impressions. 

Treat what you don’t have as non-existent. Look at what you have, the things you value most, and think of how much you’d crave them if you didn’t have them. But be careful. Don’t feel such satisfaction that you start to overvalue them—that it would upset you to lose them

We all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own

Discard your misperceptions. Stop being jerked like a puppet. Limit yourself to the present

 

If you seek tranquility, do less 

 It can ruin your life only if it ruins your character. Otherwise, it cannot harm you - inside or out.

Objective judgement, now, at this very moment. 

Unselfish action, now, at this very moment. 

Willing acceptance - now, at this very moment - of all external events. 

That’s all you need.

In your actions, don’t procrastinate. In your conversations, don’t confuse. In your thoughts, don’t wander. In your soul, don’t be passive or aggressive. In your life, don’t be all about business.

The happiness of those who want to be popular depends on others; the happiness of those who seek pleasure fluctuates with moods outside their control; but the happiness of the wise grows out of their own free acts.

Do external things distract you?  Then make time for yourself to learn something worthwhile; stop letting yourself be pulled in all directions.  But make sure you guard against the other kind of confusion.  People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time — even when hard at work.

You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.

Never regard something as doing you good if it makes you betray a trust, or lose your sense of shame, or makes you show hatred, suspicion, ill will, or hypocrisy, or a desire for things best done behind closed doors.

True good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions

The despicable phoniness of people who say, “Listen, I’m going to level with you here.”  What does that mean?  It shouldn’t even need to be said.  It should be obvious — written in block letters on your forehead.  It should be audible in your voice, visible in your eyes, like a lover who looks into your face and takes in the whole story at a glance.  A straightforward, honest person should be like someone who stinks:  when you’re in the same room with him, you should know it.  But false straightforwardness is like a knife in the back.  

At some point you have to recognize what world it is that you belong to; what power rules it and from what source you spring; that there is a limit to the time assigned you, and if you don’t use it to free yourself it will be gone and will never return 

Don’t ever forget these things: The nature of the world. My nature. How I relate to the world. What proportion of it I make up. That you are part of nature, and no one can prevent you from speaking and acting in harmony with it, always

Reading: Vigyana Bhairava Tantra - Verse 74 - विज्ञान भैरव तंत्र सूत्र 74

यत्र यत्र मनस्तुष्टिर्मनस्तत्रैव धारयेत् ।
तत्र तत्र परानन्दस्वरूपं सम्प्रवर्तते ।।74।।
 Vigyana Bhairava Tantra

Wherever your mind (Manas) is contented (attracted) let it be absorbed (held) there. The supreme bliss (ananda) will be revealed there and then.

जहाँ जहाँ मन संतुष्ट (प्रसन्न) है उसे वहां ही लगाएं। परम आनंद का स्वरुप वहां वहां घटित होगा।
विज्ञान भैरव तंत्र 

Readings: Soundrya Lahari Verse 1 Adi Shankaracharya सौन्दर्यलहरी आदि शंकराचार्य - Shloka 1

शिवः शक्त्या युक्तो यदि भवति शक्तः प्रभवितुं

न चेदेवं देवो न खलु कुशलः स्पन्दितुमपि

अतस्त्वामाराध्यां हरिहरविरिञ्चादिभिरपि

प्रणन्तुं स्तोतुं वा कथमकृतपुण्यः प्रभवति ॥ 1॥

सौन्दर्यलहरी आदि शंकराचार्य 

Shiva, when infused with Shaki, is capable of becoming potent (Powerful). Without her, he does not even have ability to even vibrate (move/create).

And hence you are worshipped by the trinity and others  (विरिञ्चि Brahma = creator, हरि Vishnu = sustainer and हर Mahesh = destroyer), how can someone with no previous (अकृत) good deeds (पुण्यः) O Shaki! even be able to pay respect or sing your praise.

हे भगवति, शिवो देवः शक्त्या युक्तो भवति यदि, तदा प्रभवितुं शक्तः। एवं न चेत्, स्पन्दितुमपि कुशलो न खलु। अतः हरिहरविरञ्चादिभिरपि आराध्यां त्वां अकृतपुण्यः प्रणन्तुं स्तोतुं वा कथं प्रभवति ।

#Sanskrit #Shloka #AdiShankara #SoundryaLahiri 
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स्पन्दितुं विस्तरं प्राप्तुं न खलु शक्त इत्यर्थः 

यैव शक्तिः सैव शिवः   

सा शिवा परमा देवी शिवभिन्ना शिवशङ्करी 

न शिवेन विना शक्तिर्नशक्तिरहितः शिवः 

उमाशङ्करयोरैक्यं यः पश्यति स पश्यति

तस्मात्सह तया शक्त्या हृदि पश्यन्ति ये शिवं 

ककारादीक्षकारान्ता वर्णास्ते शिवरुपिणः । अकारादी विसर्गान्ताः स्वराः षोडशशक्तयः । शिवः स्वर पराधीनो न स्वतन्त्रः कथञ्चन ।

दीव्यति क्रीडति इति देवः

 

 

Reading: Shloka - Shobham vahanti Girije tava sahacharsya शोभां वहन्ति गिरिजे तव सहचरस्य

चर्माम्बरं च शवभस्म विलेपनं च
भिक्षाटनं च नटनं च परेतभूमौ
वेतालसंहति परिग्रहता च शंभोः
शोभां वहन्ति गिरिजे तव सहचरस्य

#ShivaStuti #Sanskrit #Shloka

Reading: Soundrya Lahari Adi Shankaracharya सौन्दर्यलहरी आदि शंकराचार्य - Shloka 8

शिवाकारे मञ्चे परमशिवपर्यङ्कनिलयां 
भजन्ति त्वां धन्याः कतिचन चिदानन्दलहरीम्।8।
 सौन्दर्यलहरी आदि शंकराचार्य 


धन्य हैं  कुछ लोग जो आपको उस रूप को भजते हैं (में रहते हैं) जो शिवाकार मन्च पर आरूढ़ है एवं परम शिव में निवास करते  हुए सतत चिदानन्द की  लहर से विभोर है ।  

Fortunate are those few who experience (revere) you as seated and residing in Shiva and is in a constant rapture of bliss and consciousness.   

Verse 8 Saundarya Lahari  Adi Shankaracharya

#Sanskrit #AdiShankara #SoundrayaLahari

© Ratish