Gems of inspiration

 

                                       Gems of inspiration 

 

•           Accept the challenges so you can feel the exhilaration of victory.
•           Don’t believe in age. Believe in energy. Don’t let age dictate what you can and can’t do.
•           The will to win, the desire to succeed,  the urge to reach your potential, these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
•            Hard work beats the talent when talent doesn’t work.
•           Everyone is gifted,but most people never open the package.
•            Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that is creativity.
•            Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
•           Your life is your message to the world. Make sure it is inspiring.

Ideal worship

                                      Ideal worship

             Ideal worship is dedicating normal activities of life in spirit and truth in the form of various rituals  

           to complete absorption in God. Adi Shankara gives a picturesque description of that in his hymn ‘ Shiva Manasa Puja’.  In one of the verses addressed to Lord Shiva :

      “  Oh, Shambhu (  epithet of Lord Shiva meaning the auspicious Supreme, benevolent, the bestower of Bliss )!  You are my self, Goddess Parvati ( Lord Shiva’s consort) is the intelligence, the vital energies are your companions,

This body of mine is your house for worship, all the pleasures of my senses are objects to use for your worship, my sleep is the state of deep meditation ( complete absorption in you ).

My walking is the ceremony of circumambulating you, all my words are hymns of praise of you.

Whatever action I do, all that is adoration of you.”

A few words on the welfare of a state

 

                                   A few words on the welfare of a state

•             There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare.
•            To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of the skill. Thus, what is of supreme importance in wars is to attack the enemy’s strategy 
•            When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditure, there is no fear of impoverishment of your state.
•     The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Precious thoughts to cherish

  

                                Precious thoughts to cherish

•             If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find the truth you will become invincible.
•            The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
•            Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
•           Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wiseman, his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of his life.
•           Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not with insensibility but through greatness of mind.
•          Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
•        The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

Healthy wisdom quotes from Sanskrit

 

                           Healthy wisdom quotes from Sanskrit 

•         If not digested, food becomes poison.
•         A good sleep takes away half of the ailments.
•         Worry brings out diseases.
•         Exercise should be done slowly.
•        Hunger makes the meals tasty.
•       You should incorporate and enjoy all types of tastes like sweet, salty, sour etc in your daily intake of food. According to Ayurveda , there are 6 Rasas or tastes ; Madhura ( sweet), Amla ( sour ), lavana ( salty ),  Katu ( pungent ), Tikta ( bitter ), and Kashaya ( astringent). All these tastes are essential for balancing the three doshas or bodily or biological humors, promoting proper digestion, health, immunity and vitality of the body.
•     You should fill your stomach half with food, one fourth with water and one fourth to be left for circulation of air to aid digestion.
•   While taking food, you should munch like a goat. If you munch food you will live for 100 years , meaning a long healthy life. Absence of indigestion is the yardstick of long, healthy life. When you munch food slowly and mix it with saliva, then it is digested in the stomach. Indigestion is the main cause of diseases.
•   Water serves as medicine in indigestion.
• For healthy long life, one should walk 100 steps after taking meals.
• One shouldn’t take bath immediately after food.
•  A good bath makes the mind happy and destroys bad dreams.
•   For taking meals one should leave 100 works and for bath 1000 works.

Life is an opportunity to live fruitfully and enjoy !

  

                              Life is an opportunity to live fruitfully and enjoy!

 

•               Each day comes bearing its gifts. Untie the ribbon.
•              Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
•              You are only as old as you feel.
•             In life you can control two things; your effort and your attitude.
•            Happiness has less to do with pleasure and more to do with purpose.
•           Life is harder when you expect too much from the world and too little from yourself.
•          Life gets easier when you expect a lot from yourself and little from the world.
•         Don’t let yourself be controlled by three things: people, money, or past experience.
•        In every challenge or even tragedy, there is an opportunity. You can take control of the situation and even turn into something positive or at least something good thing can come from it. There in lies the power of the human mind.

Just a moment !

 

                                  Just a moment !

            

•               Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
•               Time stays long enough for those who use it.
•               Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.
•               Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.
•               He is a poor student who does not go beyond his master.
•               If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself.