Is it beyond thee to be glad
With the gladness of this rhythm?
To be tossed and lost and broken
In the Whirl of this fearful joy?
All things rush on,
They stop not,
They look not behind,
No power can hold them back,
They rush on.
Keeping steps with that
Restless, rapid music,
Seasons come dancing and pass away -
Colors, tunes, and perfumes
Pour in endless cascades
In the abounding joy
That scatters and gives up
And dies every moment.
- Rabindranath Tagore (Gitanjali - Verse 70)
The Reality which, according to those who can speak of it, is indescribable, one and complete and unchanging, cannot be unrelated to the changes in the realm of diversity. The worlds of form and consciousness are but a mirror for its reflections.
- N Sri Ram.
There is not a question of cultivating and practicing virtues, when the ground is clear, and there is purity in the soil; for then the Divine Seed, which is ever present, flowers as a free expression of one's pure, original, unmodified nature.
- N Sri Ram.
In the shady depth of life are the lonely nests of memories that shrink from words
- Rabindranath Tagore
The great plan you cannot change;
The opportunity is given to you to cooperate;
But, if driven by your past to cooperation and resisting the present by egoism,
By thinking yourself the actor instead of yielding yourself as a tool
In the great Dramatist's hand, you say,
'I will not fight; I will not do my duty; I will not perform my task;'
Then, although you are forced int unwilling obedience,
you will be utterly destroyed.
For your present choice is then to fail in your duty,
And that inner choice determines the present.
In any case the plan shall be triumphant,
and the egoism in which you took refuge shall destroy you.
Thus to Arjuna was made the Great Unveiling,
And his attitude to the world is changed.
He understands now
What history means.
He realizes the unchanging plan,
and the part in it of the individual selves
Who have made themselves worthy to cooperate with the Lord.
He knows now that Sri Krishna is Time -
Time made manifest to destroy these peoples.
Because the time has come when for good of all humanity,
These obstructive objects must be swept away, 'through fight'.
'Be thou the outward cause' (xi, 33),
The sword, the tool.
- Annie Besant (Hints on the study of the Bhgavad Gita)
With the gladness of this rhythm?
To be tossed and lost and broken
In the Whirl of this fearful joy?
All things rush on,
They stop not,
They look not behind,
No power can hold them back,
They rush on.
Keeping steps with that
Restless, rapid music,
Seasons come dancing and pass away -
Colors, tunes, and perfumes
Pour in endless cascades
In the abounding joy
That scatters and gives up
And dies every moment.
- Rabindranath Tagore (Gitanjali - Verse 70)
The Reality which, according to those who can speak of it, is indescribable, one and complete and unchanging, cannot be unrelated to the changes in the realm of diversity. The worlds of form and consciousness are but a mirror for its reflections.
- N Sri Ram.
There is not a question of cultivating and practicing virtues, when the ground is clear, and there is purity in the soil; for then the Divine Seed, which is ever present, flowers as a free expression of one's pure, original, unmodified nature.
- N Sri Ram.
In the shady depth of life are the lonely nests of memories that shrink from words
- Rabindranath Tagore
The great plan you cannot change;
The opportunity is given to you to cooperate;
But, if driven by your past to cooperation and resisting the present by egoism,
By thinking yourself the actor instead of yielding yourself as a tool
In the great Dramatist's hand, you say,
'I will not fight; I will not do my duty; I will not perform my task;'
Then, although you are forced int unwilling obedience,
you will be utterly destroyed.
For your present choice is then to fail in your duty,
And that inner choice determines the present.
In any case the plan shall be triumphant,
and the egoism in which you took refuge shall destroy you.
Thus to Arjuna was made the Great Unveiling,
And his attitude to the world is changed.
He understands now
What history means.
He realizes the unchanging plan,
and the part in it of the individual selves
Who have made themselves worthy to cooperate with the Lord.
He knows now that Sri Krishna is Time -
Time made manifest to destroy these peoples.
Because the time has come when for good of all humanity,
These obstructive objects must be swept away, 'through fight'.
'Be thou the outward cause' (xi, 33),
The sword, the tool.
- Annie Besant (Hints on the study of the Bhgavad Gita)
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