“We must have these four sorts of ideas. We must have friendship for all; we must be merciful towards those that are in misery; when people are happy we ought to be happy, and to the wicked we must be indifferent.”
― Patanjali Yoga Sutras
― Patanjali Yoga Sutras
“Reason leaves us at a point quite indecisive; we may reason all our lives, as the world has been doing for thousands of years, and the result is that we find we are incompetent to prove or disprove the facts of religion. What we perceive directly we take as the basis, and upon that basis we reason. So it is obvious that reasoning has to run within these bounds of perception. It can never go beyond: the whole scope of realisation, therefore, is beyond sense perception. The yogis say that man can go beyond his direct sense perception, and beyond his reason also. Man has in him the faculty, the power, of transcending his intellect even, and that power is in every being, every creature. By the practice of Yoga that power is aroused, and then man transcends the ordinary limits of reason, and directly perceives things which are beyond all reason.”
― Patanjali Yoga Sutras
― Patanjali Yoga Sutras
“Revenge is a dish that tastes best when served cold.”
― The Godfather
― The Godfather
“कष्ट भोगने वाले अनेक मनुष्यों में केवल कुछ ही ऐसे हैं जो वास्तव में अपनी स्थिती जानने के जिज्ञासु हैं, जैसे कि वे क्या हैं, वे इस विषम स्थिति में क्यों डाल दिये गये हैं, आदि-आदि। जब तक मनुष्य को अपने कष्टों के विषय में जिज्ञासा नहीं होती, जब तक उसे यह अनुभूति नहीं होती कि वह कष्ट भोगना नहीं अपितु सारे कष्टों का हल ढूँढना चाहता है, उसे सिद्ध मानव नहीं समझना चाहिए। मानवता तभी शुरू होती है जब मन में इस प्रकार की जिज्ञासा उदित होती है। ब्रह्म-सूत्र में इस जिज्ञासा को ब्रह्म-जिज्ञासा कहा गया है। अथातो ब्रह्म-जिज्ञासा। मनुष्य के सारे कार्यकलाप असफल माने जाने चाहिए, यदि वह परब्रह्म के स्वभाव के विषय में जिज्ञासा न करे। अतएव जो लोग यह प्रश्न करना प्रारम्भ कर देते हैं कि वे क्यों कष्ट उठा रहे हैं, या वे कहाँ से आये हैं और मृत्यु के बाद कहाँ जायेंगे, वे ही भगवद्गीता समझने के सुपात्र विद्यार्थी हैं। निष्ठावान विद्यार्थी में भगवान के प्रति आदर भाव भी होना चाहिए। अर्जुन ऐसा ही विद्यार्थी था।”
― Srimad Bhagavad Gita Yatharoop
― Srimad Bhagavad Gita Yatharoop
“Since then, at an uncertain hour,
That agony returns:
And till my ghastly tale is told,
This heart within me burns.”
― The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
That agony returns:
And till my ghastly tale is told,
This heart within me burns.”
― The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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