फिलोसोफी ऑफ़ life

We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation. ~Francois De La Rochefoucauld


A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure. ~Lee Segall


Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop. ~Lewis Carrol, Alice in Wonderland


Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. ~Andre Gide


Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. ~Aesop


Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying. ~Baba Ram Dass


I am a part of all that I have met. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson


There's more to the truth than just the facts. ~Author Unknown


The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer. ~Edward R. Murrow


Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. ~Polish Proverb


Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. ~Ludwig Börne


If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky? ~Stanislaw J. Lec


We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new functions and conditions, it uses the same old basic principles over and over again. There is no real difference between the grass and the man who mows it. ~Albert Szent-Györgyi


Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly. ~Edward Albee


When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Buddhist Proverb


A gun gives you the body, not the bird. ~Henry David Thoreau


Before enlightenment - chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment - chop wood, carry water. ~Zen Buddhist Proverb


Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~Henry David Thoreau


Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams


I tell you everything that is really nothing, and nothing of what is everything, do not be fooled by what I am saying. Please listen carefully and try to hear what I am not saying. ~Charles C. Finn


Oh, Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry a future Ghost within us; but are, in very deed, Ghosts! ~Thomas Carlyle


Knock on the sky and listen to the sound. ~Zen Saying


The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you've gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you've gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning. Once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him? ~Chuang Tzu


By daily dying I have come to be. ~Theodore Roethke


There are some remedies worse than the disease. ~Publilius Syrus


You never know what is enough, until you know what is more than enough. ~William Blake, Proverbs of Hell


It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos. ~John L. McClenahan


What you see, yet can not see over, is as good as infinite. ~Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book II, chapter 1


Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us - but not suckle us. ~Soren Kierkegaard


One man's quiet is another man's din. ~Carrie Latet


Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science. ~Henry David Thoreau


Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. ~Henri Louis Bergson


If you think you're free, there's no escape possible. ~Ram Dass


The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter. ~G.C. Lichtenberg


Don't miss the donut by looking through the hole. ~Author Unknown


You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. ~Navajo Proverb


Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death. ~Heraclitus, Eustathius ad Iliad


To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday. ~John Burroughs


Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


How long has it been since someone touched part of you other than your body? ~Terri Guillemets


Alice came to a fork in the road. "Which road do I take?" she asked.
"Where do you want to go?" responded the Cheshire cat.
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
~Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland


Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind. ~John Lancaster Spalding


The map is not the territory. ~Alfred Korzybski


No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head. ~Terry Josephson


Would there be this eternal seeking if the found existed? ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


I was once a skeptic but was converted by the two missionaries on either side of my nose. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time without end; for all things are of one kin and of one form. ~Marcus Aurelius


If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one. ~Russian Proverb


The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself. ~Bertrand Russell


Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet. ~Roger Miller


The obstacle is the path. ~Zen Proverb


It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. ~James Thurber


It is easy to stand a pain, but difficult to stand an itch. ~Chang Ch'ao


You cannot step into the same river twice. ~Heraclitus, in Diogenes Laertius, Lives


You are fastened to them and cannot understand how, because they are not fastened to you. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem. ~Alexander Jodorowsky


Among creatures born into chaos, a majority will imagine an order, a minority will question the order, and the rest will be pronounced insane. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? ~George Gordon, Lord Byron, Child Harold's Pilgrimage


Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases. ~Hippocrates, Aphorisms


If a placebo has an effect, is it any less real than the real thing? ~Nathaniel LeTonnerre


Seeking is not always the way to find. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827


It takes all the running you can do just to keep in the same place. ~Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, 1872


We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into. ~Author Unknown


I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning. ~Aleister Crowley, Book of Lies


Tomorrow always comes, and today is never yesterday. ~S.A. Sachs


Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects. ~Thomas Carlyle


You can see a lot by just looking. ~Yogi Berra, also often quoted as "You can observe a lot by just looking." (original wording as yet unverified)


Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind. ~Leo Rosten


Reason and faith are both banks of the same river. ~Doménico Cieri Estrada


Man is the only animal who enjoys the consolation of believing in a next life; all other animals enjoy the consolation of not worrying about it. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple. ~Dr Seuss


Who depends on another man's table often dines late. ~John Ray


[T]hings are entirely what they appear to be and behind them... there is nothing. ~Jean Paul Sartre, Nausea


You become responsible forever for what you've tamed. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince, 1943, translated from French by Richard Howard


When the pain is great enough, we will let anyone be doctor. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


A thousand men can't undress a naked man. ~Greek Proverb


May your passion be the kernel of corn stuck between your molars, always reminding you there's something to tend to. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com


I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


We often repent the good we have done as well as the ill. ~William Hazlitt, Characteristics, 1823


When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


The scars you can't see are the hardest to heal. ~Astrid Alauda


The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish. ~Evelyn Waugh


It's very strange when the life you never had flashes before your eyes. ~Terri Minsky, Sex and the City, "The Baby Shower


The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground. ~Buddha


We become aware of the void as we fill it. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


If I make the lashes dark
And the eyes more bright
And the lips more scarlet,
Or ask if all be right
From mirror after mirror,
No vanity's displayed:
I'm looking for the face I had
Before the world was made.
~W.B. Yeats


Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. ~Santayana, Essays


The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. ~Niels Bohr


How often one sees people looking far and wide for what they are holding in their hands? Why! I am doing it myself at this very moment. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827


Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there. ~Eric Hoffer, Passionate State of Mind, 1955


Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? ~Maurice Freehill


I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark, though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced. ~Henry David Thoreau, "Solitude," Walden, 1854


Because they know the name of what I am looking for, they think they know what I am looking for! ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


There are things I have wanted so long that I would only consent to have them if I could keep wanting them. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Eggs cannot be unscrambled. ~American Proverb


A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


The road was new to me, as roads always are going back. ~Sarah Orne Jewett, The Country Road of Pointed Firs, 1896


...like stealing the juice out of tomorrow's fruit. ~Terri Guillemets


Admiration and familiarity are strangers. ~George Sand


I am not certain of the hereafter. Frankly, I'm not all that certain of the here. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about "and." ~Arthur Stanley Eddington


To know the hight [sic] of a mountain, one must climb it. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827


No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place. ~Zen


The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing. ~Eric Berne


Nearly all men die of their remedies, and not of their illnesses. ~Jean Baptiste Molière, Le Malade Imaginaire


The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. ~Aldous Huxley


Will localizes us; thought universalizes us. ~Henri Frederic Amiel


I doubt one could live in the darkness, but one could probably survive. ~Nathaniel LeTonnerre


Skin is a covering for our immortality. ~Terri Guillemets


I've observed that there are more lines formed than things worth waiting for. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights. ~Georg Hegel


When I break any of the chains that bind me I feel that I make myself smaller. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


We are spirits clad in veils. ~Christopher P. Cranch


If I am not pleased with myself, but should wish to be other than I am, why should I think highly of the influences which have made me what I am? ~John Lancaster Spalding


Before I travelled my road I was my road. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. ~Francis Bacon


To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting. ~Stanislaus I of Poland


The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth - that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one. ~H.L. Mencken


The future influences the present just as much as the past. ~Friedrich Nietzsche


When a watch goes ill, it is not enough to move the hands; you must set the regulator. When a man does ill, it is not enough to alter his handiwork, you must regulate his heart. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827


When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. ~John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra, 1911


One does what one is; one becomes what one does. ~Robert von Musil, Kleine Prosa


In this, the late afternoon of my life, I wonder: am I casting a longer shadow or is my shadow casting a shorter me? ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


You can't fall off the floor. ~Author Unknown


A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top. ~Author Unknown


In a mist the heights can for the most part see each other; but the valleys cannot. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827


In general people experience their present naively, as it were, without being able to form an estimate of its contents; they have first to put themselves at a distance from it - the present, that is to say, must have become the past - before it can yield points of vantage from which to judge the future. ~Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion


The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. ~Robert M. Pirsig


A stumble may prevent a fall. ~English Proverb


When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you. ~Friedrich Nietzche


What you discover in a democracy is that it is difficult to build a house when each nail has an opinion. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. ~Matsuo Basho

Life Philosophy

Life Philosophy

The meaning of life is to give life meaning

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
Life Philosophy of John Wooden

Even a fool knows you can't reach the stars,
but that doesn't stop a wiseman from trying.

"You can't make someone else's choices.
You shouldn't let someone else make yours."
Life Philosophy of Gen. Colin Powell

Man is not the creature of circumstances,
circumstances are the creatures of men.
We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
Life Philosophy of Benjamin Disraeli

When an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you,
or you defeat it...
Life Philosophy of Rosalind Russell

A life lived in fear is a life half lived.

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

"It is better to be hated for what you are
then to be loved for what your not"

There are always two choices. Two paths to take.
One is easy. And its only reward is that it's easy.

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Life Philosophy of Zig Ziglar

You will never achieve what you never begin...

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Philosophy of Life by Andre Gide

If one seeks advice, give them direction, not correction.

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Philosophy of Life by Richard Bach

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.
Philosophy of Life by George Macdonald

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen,
but give us the determination to make the right things happen.
Philosophy of Life by Peter Marshall

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Don't take life too seriously. no one gets out alive, anyways.

Before you talk about what you want - appreciate what you have.

A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it,
or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.
Life Philosophy from Gene Roddenberry

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do,
but few people actually do what they know.
Knowing is not enough! You must take action.
Life Philosophy from Anthony Robbins

If you believe you can, you probably can.
If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't.
Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
Life Philosophy from Denis Waitley

You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot
Life Philosophy from Ben Stein

Find something you love to do
and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
Life Philosophy from Harvey Mackay

You can do what you want to do. You can be what you want to be.
Life Philosophy from R. David Thomas

duha

ઊંચો ગઢ ગિરનાર, વાદળથી વાતું કરે
મરતા રા'ખેંગાર, ખરેડી ખાંગો કાં ન થયો
મા પડ મારા આધાર, ચોસલાં કોણ ચડાવશે
ગયા ચડાવણહાર, જીવતા જાતર આવશે

અડી કડી વાવ ને નવઘણ કૂવો
જેણે ન જોયા તે જીવતો મૂઓ

શિયાળે સોરઠ ભલો, ઉનાળે ગુજરાત
ચોમાસે વાગડ ભલો, કચ્છડો બારે માસ


કચ્છડો ખેંલે ખલકમેં, મહાસાગરમેં મચ્છ
જિન હકડો કચ્છી વસે, ઉન ડિયાણી કચ્છ


જનની જણ તો ભક્તજન, કાં દાતા કાં શૂર
નહિ તો રહેજે વાંઝણી, રખે ગુમાવે નૂર


જોઈ વહોરિયે જાત, મરતાં લગ મેલે નહિ
પડી પટોળે ભાત, ફાટે પણ ફીટે નહિ


નહીં આદર, નહીં આવકાર, નહીં નૈનોમાં નેહ
ન એવા ઘેર કદી જવું, ભલે કંચન વરસે મેઘ


દળ ફરે, વાદળ ફરે, ફરે નદીનાં પૂર
પણ શૂરા બોલ્યા નવ ફરે, પશ્વિમ ઊગે સૂર


રાતે જે વહેલા સૂઈ વહેલા ઊઠે તે નર વીર
બળ, બુદ્ધિ, ને ધન વધે, સુખમાં રહે શરીર


દીઠે કરડે કુતરો, પીઠે કરડે વાઘ
વિશ્વાસે કરડે વાણિયો, દબાયો કરડે નાગ

નામ રહંતા ઠક્કરાં, નાણાં નવ રહંત
કીર્તિ કેરા કોટડાં, પાડ્યા નવ પડંત


જાનમાં કોઈ જાણે નહિ કે હું વરની ફુઈ
ગાડે કોઈ બેસાડે નહિ ને દોડી દોડી મૂઈ


કરતાં સોબત શ્વાનની બે બાજુનું દુ:ખ
ખિજ્યું કરડે પિંડીએ રિઝ્યું ચાટે મુખ

मरद kasubal

ધગધગતી ધારા, તોય બહારા, પાકે બહારા પોબારા,

ધરતી ગાજે, કાયર ભાગે, હાંકે દેતા, હોંકારા,

જનનીના જાયા કવિએ ગાયા લોક વિરલા કો’ક જડે,

મેદાને મરવા, અવસર વરવા, મરદ કસુંબલ રંગ ચડે.

જીય મરદ કસુંબલ રંગ ચડે–



જીય મરદ કસુંબલ રંગ ચડે–
દુહા છંદની રમઝટ
-------

રણશીંગા વાગે સુતા જાગે કાયર ભાગે કામ પડે,

ધગ ધગતી ધરતી ફોજુ ફરતી વિનાશ કરતી તેગ વડે,

જનનીના જાયા કવિએ ગાયા લોક વિરલા કોક જડે,

મેદાને મરવા અવસર વરવા મરદ કસુંબલ રંગ ચડે–

જીય મરદ કસુંબલ રંગ ચડે–


(અહિયા)કોઈ ખેડે ખેતરને, (જોને)કોઈ ખેડે વાડીયુ;
(પણ)દરિયા દેવને ખેડે, (ઈ’તો)ખારાવા કેરી જાત…….૧

(પણ)મધદરિયે તોફાનમાં, (અને)માંરુ દલડુ ડુબી ગયુ;
(પણ)કાંઠે છીપલા વિણતી, મારી સજનીની પાસે ગયુ…….૨

-કપિલ દવે




ગિયા માસ ગળ્યે, તો હાડે હેવાયા કરે;
(ઍ) માતા જાય મર્યે, (ઍને) કેમૅ વિસરિઍ, કાગડા ?

ચિન્ધે ન છોરુને, લથડિય અગડા લિયે;
મરતા લગ માને , કેમ વિસરિયે , કાગડા ?

પન્ડમા પિડ ઘણિ, સાતિને હસતિ સદા;
માયા માત તણિ, કેમ વિસરિયે , કાગડા ?

કુટુમ્બ ક્લેશ અપાર, કિધા ન પુતરને કદિ;
ઍવા ઝેર જીરવણહાર, કેમ વીસરીઍ, કાગડા ?

જમ જડાફા ખાય , મોતે નળ્ય માંડિયુ;
(તોય) છોરુની ચિંતા થાય, (ઍને) કેમ વીસરીઍ, કાગડા ?

ધમણે શ્વાસ ધમાય, ઘટડામા ઘોડા ફરે;
(તોય) છોરુની ચિંતા થાય, (ઍને) કેમ વીસરીઍ, કાગડા ?

તો અંગ અઘળા તાવ, પૂતર તળ પૂછે નઇં;
(પણ) ભળ્યો ન બીજો ભાવ, (ઍને) કેમ વીસરીઍ, કાગડા ?

કિધા ન જીભે કેણ, નાડ્યું ઝોંટાણા લગી;
ન કર્યા દુઃખડા નેણ, (ઍને) કેમ વીસરીઍ, કાગડા ?

આખર ઍક જતાં, ક્રોડ્યું ન આખર કામના;
મોઢે બોલુ ‘મા’, કોઠાને ટાઢક, કાગડા!

મોઢે બોલુ ‘માં’, સાચેંય નાનપ સાંભરે;
(ત્યારે) મોટપની મજા, મને કડવી લાગે, કાગડા !

અડી ન જગની આગ, તારે ખોળે ખેલતાં;
તેનો કીધેલ ત્યાગ, (તેથી) કાળજ સળગે,કાગડા !

ભગવાન ને ભજતા, મહેશ્વર આવિ મળે;
(પણ) મળે ન એક જ મા, કોઇ ઉપાયે કાગડા !

મળી ન હરને મા, (તેથી) મહેશ્વર જો પશુ થયા;
પણ જાયો ઇ જસોદા, (પછી) કાન કેવાણો, કાગડા !

મળિયલ એને મા, સૌ રાઘવ કરસનને રહે;
જગ કોઇ જાણે ના, કાસપ મચ્છને, કાગડા !

જનની કેરુ જોર, રાઘવને રે’તુ સદા;
(તેથી) માને ન કરી મોર, કરિયો પિતાને, કાગડા !

ઘુમી ન ઘુઘવતાં, ખોળે ધાવીને ખેલતા;
(એ) ખોળે ખોજીતાં,ક્યાંયે ન મળે, કાગડા !

મોટાં કરીને મા, ખોળેથી ખસતાં કર્યા;
ખોળે ખેલવવા, (પાછા) કરને બાળક, કાગડા !

અમ્રુત ભરિયલ આપ, તુંકારા જનની તણા;
બીજા ભણતા બાપ, કોરા આખર, કાગડા !

સ્વારથ જગ સારો પધારો ભણશે પ્રથી;
(પણ) તરો તુંકારો, ક્યાંય ન મળે, કાગડા !

માતા તો મનમાં ઊણપ કદી ન આણજે
(મારે) ઊભી અંતરમા, (તારી) કાયમ છબી, કાગડા !

માડી સું મનમાંય કોઈ કૂડો સંકલપ કરે,
(એથી) દોઝખ પણ દુભાય, કળ ન સંઘરે, કાગડા !

જનની સામે જોઇ, કપુત તુંકારા કરે,
જ્યાં જ્યાં જનમે હોય કડવું જીવન, કાગડા !

માતા કેરા માન, હરિયા તન હેતે કરી,
ધોડે આગળ ધાન, (પણ) કદી ન આંબે , કાગડા !

માના હરિયા માન, કૌરવ કચેરી મધે,
રહી ન રસણા કાન, કહેવા સાંભળવા કાગડા !

જે કર માડી ઝીલીઆ, જે કર પોષ્યા જોય,
તેડી લેજે તોય, એ કરથ છેવટ, કાગડા !
કવિ શ્રી દુલા ભાયા કાગ
કાગ બાપુ

નામ ઃ દુલા ભાયા કાગ -”કાગ બાપુ”-

કાઠીયાવાળી દુહા

કાઠીયાવાળી દુહા

ઉજ્જડ કેડા ફરી વસે, નિર્ધની મા ધન હોય,
ગયા જોબન ન સાંપડે, મુવા ન જીવે કોય.

પહાડે પહાડે મણી નહી, ચંદન વન વન ન્હોય,
કોક જ દેશ કસ્તુરીયો, સતી ઘેર ઘેર ન્હોય.

ધનકું ઊંડા નવ ધરે, રણમેં ખેલે દાવ,
ભાગી ફોજા ભેળવે, તાકું રંગ ચડાવ.

ભલ ઘોડો, વલ વંકડો, હલ બાંધવા હથિયાર,
જાજી ફોજું માં જીકવા, મરવું એકજ વાર.

ઘર આંગણીયે રોજ તડકો છાંયડો હોય,
સુખ દુઃખ ના વારા નહી, બચી શકે ના કોય.

પીપળ પાન ખરત, હસતી કુંપળીયા,
અમ વીતી તમ વીતશે, ધીરી બાપુડીયા.

ओशो ओं samadhi

Quotes on Samadhi

1. Samadhi means death with consciousness, dying fully alert. You have died many times but it was not samadhi, it was simple death, because whenever you died you were unconscious. Before death happens you are unconscious, it is just a surgical procedure.

2. Real religion has to be rooted in the earth. Yes, real religion also has to rise towards the sun. It is like a lotus flower — rooted in the mud and rising towards the sun. The lotus has to be freed from the mud, but the mud has not to be condemned at all, because the mud is the nourishment. Your sex energy is the nourishment for your SAMADHI. It is out of the mud of sex that the lotus of SAMADHI IS going to bloom. Never repress it! Never be against it; rather, go deep into it with great clarity, with great love. Go like an explorer. Search all the nooks and comers of your sexuality, and you will be surprised and enriched and benefitted.

3. Your glimpse of first enlightenment — in Japan they call it satori — is strong. It may be fragile, it may be new. It will be difficult to protect it, but it has a strength of its own. If you support it totally, it is going to take over your whole being. Satori is going to become samadhi. Satori is the first glimpse of samadhi, and samadhi is when your whole being is afire. You don’t have to remember, you are it. But this is possible only if you cultivate it in all your day-to-day affairs.

4. God is total relaxation. Hence Patanjali says that perfect SAMADHI is like sleep, with only one difference — otherwise the quality is the same, the same flavor, the same taste — with just one difference: in sleep you are unconscious, in samadhi you are conscious. But the relaxation, the letgo, is the same. Everything untense, not going anywhere, not even a thought of going anywhere, just being here and now — suddenly everything starts happening.

5. In samadhi you enter yourself fully conscious, fully alert. And once you are at the center fully alert, you will never be the same again. Now you will know who you are. Now you will know that your possessions, your actions are just on the periphery; they are just the ripples, not your nature.

6. Sex is biological surrender. SAMADHI — cosmic consciousness — is existential surrender. Through sex you touch life. Through samadhi, ecstasy, you touch existence, you move even deeper than life; the basic existence is touched. Through sex you move from yourself to another person; in samadhi you move from yourself to the whole, to the cosmos.

7. Death is sudden; SAMADHI is also sudden. Spiritual explosion is also sudden. It is like death. It is more like death than it is like life; it is sudden. It can happen at any moment.

8. The basic thing is that if the mind is not there and you are alert, you will have SATORI, you will have the first glimpse of SAMADHI.

9. This passive alertness is the key. But don’t become disturbed by language. Start with effort. Just keep in mind that you have to leave it, and go on leaving it. Even leaving will be an effort — but a moment comes when everything has gone. Then you are there, simply there not doing anything — just there, being. That “beingness” is SAMADHI, and all that is worth knowing, worth having, worth being, happens to you in that state.

10. When awareness and this thoughtlessness meet, it is meditation. That is why Patanjali says that samadhi is like SUSHUPTI. The highest ecstasy, samadhi, is like the deepest sleep, with only one difference: in it you are not asleep. But the quality is the same — thoughtless, dreamless, undisturbed, without a single ripple, totally calm and quiet, but alert. When you are aware and there is no thought, you will feel a sudden transformation in your consciousness. The center changes. You are thrown back. You are thrown to the heart. And from the heart, when you look at the world, there is no world, there is only God. From the head, when you look towards existence, there is no God, there is only material existence.

11. Samadhi, the ultimate goal of all yoga and Tantra, is a deep orgasm with the universe itself, with the existence itself. The guru is just trying to help you, to bring you to a point where you can at least surrender the ego. Then a deep ecstasy will happen between you and your master. Wherever there is a `let-go’, ecstasy happens — that is the law.

12. Hindus have always believed that samadhi is conscious sleep.In sleep it happens automatically that you are no more. The existence is, and you are no more; but you are deeply unconscious so you don’t know what is happening. If this same phenomenon can happen consciously, you become enlightened. Buddha moves to the same source, to the same source that you move every night in deep sleep, in dreamless sleep. But Buddha moves to that source consciously, alert, aware. He knows where he is moving to, he knows what is happening, and when he comes back from that deep source, he comes totally different. The old has disappeared and a new being, a new energy has arisen out of it. Of this being, the center is the universe; and with this transfer of the center, all your worry, all your anguish, all your hell disappears, simply disappears. It is not solved, it is simply not there. It cannot exist there without the ego.]

Osho Quotes on Sex

Osho Quotes on Sex

1. What happens with your sex energy depends on how you use it. What it can become does not depend on it alone, but on your understanding and on how you live your life. Have you not observed that it becomes brahmacharya, the state of celibacy when it is transformed? bramhacharya is not hostile to passion; brahmacharya is the purification, the transcendence, the sublimation of passion. In the same way, the energy that manifests itself in violence becomes peace, serenity and tranquility. It is only a question of transformation.

2. Love is not sexual passion. Those who mistake sex for love remain empty of love. Sex is only a passing manifestation of love. It is part of nature’s mechanism, a method of procreation. Love exists on a higher plane, and as love grows, sex dissipates. The energy that has been manifested in sex is transformed into love.

3. Love is the creative refinement of sex energy. And so, when love reaches perfection, the absence of sex automatically follows. A life of love, an abstinence from physical pleasures is called brahmacharya, and anyone who wishes to be free from sex must develop his capacity to love. Freedom from sex cannot be achieved through supersession. Liberation from sex is only possible through love.

4. The first thing: be a witness of sex too. Don’t be the controller of it. Don’t try to forcibly bring it under control, remain a witness of it too. Just as you are a witness of everything else, remain a witness of sex too. It is difficult, because you have been taught for centuries that sex is sin. That concept of sin has been fixed in your mind.

5. Both are easy: it is perfectly easy to go unconscious in sex, to completely forget what is going on, to get intoxicated is easy. To control sex, to force it to stop, to prevent yourself is also easy. But in both you miss. The one who indulges misses, the celibate misses too. The real brahmacharya happens when you stand in the middle between these two, then you are only watching. Then you will find that sex arises in the body and reverberates in the body; in the mind a shadow briefly falls and departs. You remain standing far away. How can sexual desire be in you? How can any desire be in you? You are nothing but the observer.

6. See life from a positive viewpoint. If you start being happy then the things that you grabbed onto because of your misery will drop by themselves. If meditation comes then wine will drop. If meditation comes, then meat-eating will drop. If meditation comes then slowly slowly sex energy begins to be transformed into brahmacharya. Just let meditation come.

7. Just by condemning nothing is destroyed. If you say sex is bad, you condemn it, but you cannot destroy it. Just by condemning it, it is not destroyed. Rather, it may become a more dangerous force, because when repressed, it may struggle to be expressed. And if you go on struggling with it, not allowing it, it will become perverted. Repression will make you more sexual, and the sex energy will struggle and will try to come out in any way, in any form.

8. All the perversions, all over the world – homosexuality or sado-masochist perversions are basically byproducts of so-called religions, particularly christianity: because the more they repress, the more the energy has to find paths of its own. Natural sex is beautiful; perverted sex is just ugliness. Natural sex can be made hallowed and holy, but perverted sex cannot be made holy because it is twice removed from the original source.

9. Sex is there: do not condemn it. Accept it. Do not create a division in your being, between parts of your being. Anger is there: accept it. Greed is there, or whatsoever: accept it. I do not mean be greedy. Rather on the contrary, the moment you accept you go beyond, because acceptance creates a unity, and when you are united within you have the energy to go beyond.

10. You are born of sex. Your every body cell is a sex cell, all your energy is sex energy. So if religions teach that sex is bad, sex is sin, they have condemned you completely. And not only have they condemned you, now you will condemn yourself. Now you cannot go beyond it and you cannot leave it, and now it is a sin. You are divided; you start fighting with yourself. And the more this guilt can be created in you – over the concept that sex is something unholy – the more neurotic you will become.

11. I take sex as the basic problem. And if your sex problem is solved, you are a different man or a different woman, because then all the perversions simply are no more. You have resolved the base. And when sex is solved and it is not a problem for you, not a fight, when you have deeply accepted it and said a deep yes to it, then you can transform it – because that is the energy which is alive in you. When you are dead, that energy will go on and on, more and more. You are just a wave in a sex ocean: the ocean continues, and the waves go on, die and disappear. The ocean continues. Sex is the BRAHMAN. If you go deep into sex, then it is the very life. If you forget it, then you remain on the surface. Then it is ugly. If you do not fight with it or sink into it, but drop into it, dissolve into it, melt into it, when you allow sex to become life, then suddenly it is transformed into love. That is how the mechanism automatically works. If you fight it, sex becomes hate. So those who are filled with hatred are those who are fighting with their sex.

12. If you do not fight it, if you accept it and melt into it, it becomes love. So love and hate are two faces of sex. If it is perverted, it becomes hate. If accepted deeply, it will become love. And you can create love out of your sex energies. If those energies transform into love, then you are at ease in the world, at home with the earth. That at-homeness is basic.

13. This is the beauty: if you accept sex, you will not reject anything else. That is why there is so much emphasis on it. If you reject sex, you will have to reject many things. Sex is the root rejection. If you reject sex, you will reject many things. Food will be rejected, then clothes will be rejected, then everything will be rejected. It is a long sequence, and in that sequence you will have to reject and reject, because the whole life is sexual. If you reject sex you will go on and on rejecting, and ultimately you will reject life. Then suicide is the only thing worth doing because even to take a breath is sexual. It goes to your sex cells and gives them life. To be alive is to be sexual. If you are against sex, then you will be against everything. And a person who is against everything is bound to be neurotic, mad, and you cannot help him.

14. When you are with a woman, if you are of the opposite sex, you begin to feel more alive than with a man. With a man you feel less alive because nothing is pulling you out. You are enclosed, the opposite energy pulls you out; the flame flickers, you can be more alive. And whenever you begin to feel more alive, you begin to feel happy.

15. The mechanism of sex is so much a momentary phenomenon that it only functions momentarily; if you do not cooperate at the right moment, it stops. At the right moment your cooperation is needed, otherwise it cannot work. It is only a momentary mechanism, and if you do not cooperate with it, it will stop by itself.

16. First the energy will try its best to be released sexually, because that is its usual outlet, its usual center. So one must first be aware of one’s downward “doors.” Only awareness will close them; only noncooperation will close them. Sex is not so forceful as we feel it to be. It is forceful only momentarily: it is not a twenty-four-hour affair, it is a momentary challenge.

17. One more point, thinking about sex is harmful than sex itself. Sex can be easy and natural but thinking about it too often is unnatural, is a perversion. After examining the experience of thousands of people, the psychoanalysts tell us that man is taking too much interest in mental sex and he does not derive any pleasure from the actual sex activity. The sex that is going on in the mind seems more interesting and colourful. If sex is thus perverted in the mind, confusion will be created within us. To think about sex is not the function of the mind. The intelligence of the person who uses his mind to do the work of sex centre becomes depraved — is spoilt. Gurdjieff used to say so. The intelligence is bound to get spoilt, because the functions of these two are different. It is like this: If a person tries to take food with his ear, his ear will certainly be spoilt, and food will not reach the stomach. Both will be harassed.