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"Where did you come from? asks the customs' official.
And we answer: From the sea!
Where are you going?
To the sea, we answer.
What is your address?
A woman of our group says: My village is the bundle on my back."

from Athens Airport (12)

liked "I Talk Too Much" and "The Last Train Has Stopped" but they're too long to fit in the update.

beginning to doubt a little if it is the best translation out there tho.

"Where should we go after the last border? Where should birds fly after the last sky?
Where should plants sleep after the last breath of air?
We write our names with crimson mist!
We end the hymn with our flesh.
Here we will die. Here, in the final passage.
Here or there, our blood will plant olive trees."

(from 'Earth Presses against Us' (9))

auld lang syne made me see beauty in the most mundane of human experiences :)

no more philosophy (indefinitely) 🙏🏼

(chapter 15: पुरुषोत्तमयोग)

i recited this chapter in 5th grade!!!
(still have chunks of it memorised lmao)

(chapter 11: विश्वरूप दर्शन योग)

my personal favourite and such a powerful chapter

कालोऽस्मि लोकक्षयकृत्प्रवृद्धो
i am time, the destroyer of all

(https://youtu.be/pqZqfTOxFhY)

यदा यदा हि धर्मस्य ग्लानिर्भवति भारत।
अभ्युत्थानमधर्मस्य तदात्मानं सृजाम्यहम् ॥४-७॥

परित्राणाय साधूनां विनाशाय च दुष्कृताम् ।
धर्मसंस्थापनार्थाय सम्भवामि युगे युगे ॥४-८॥

so many of my childhood memories revolve around singing this to B. R. Chopra's Mahabharat intro

(https://youtu.be/HnXkv_ozPQw?list=PLD...)

the introduction is so well researched and elegantly written. can cut down on the gandhi references a little bit but im so glad i picked this translation.