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‘No man is an island’.
Don’t let me live to bear this, Lord Surya. Let me die. Let me die… This is a disaster!
Lord Rudra belonged to a land beyond the western borders of India: Pariha.
This soil is worth more than my life to me. I love my country. I love my India. I swear I will do what must be done. Give me courage, My Lord.
Ram Chandra meant ‘pleasant face of the moon’, and it was well known that the moon shone with the reflected light of the sun. Poetically, the sun was the face and the moon its reflection; who, then, was responsible for the pleasant face of the moon? The sun! It
Passionate children have strong emotions that insist on finding expression. They laugh loudly. They cry even more loudly.
‘No, it isn’t. Sometimes, truth causes pain and suffering. At such times, silence is preferred. In fact, there may be times when a white lie, or even an outright lie, could actually lead to a good outcome.’
‘How can the land belong to any of us? We belong to the land!’
Trust the boldness of a born rebel.
‘This attitude is basic human nature. We’d rather look outward and blame others for the ills that befall us than point the finger at ourselves.
there was no hierarchy in the spiritual journey of both, the one who knew no scripture, as well as the one who was an expert on them, simply because they both believed in the Ekam.’
Giving a sharp sword to a child is not an act of generosity, but irresponsibility.
The Ekam exists in everybody and everything; if you feel any hatred at all towards anything or anyone, then you hate the Ekam Himself!’
for.’ ‘A real leader doesn’t choose to lead only the deserving. He will, instead, inspire his people into becoming the best that they are capable of. A real leader will not defend a monster, but convert that demon into a God; tap into the God that dwells within even him. He takes upon himself the burden of dharma sankat, but he ensures that his people become better human beings.’
Blood shall always be answered with blood.
But the strange thing about anger is that it is like fire; the more you feed it, the more it grows. It takes a lot of wisdom to know when to let anger go.
The ancients believed that dharma and death were interlinked.
if the accounts were in balance and karma was in alignment with dharma, then the soul would attain ultimate salvation: release from the cycle of rebirth, and reunification with the universal soul, the Parmatma, the Ekam, the Brahman.
Vishwamitra was the chief of the Malayaputras, the mysterious tribe left behind by the previous Vishnu, Lord Parshu Ram.
It’s derived from the old Sanskrit word for protection, Raksha. It is said that the word Rakshasa emerged from their victims asking to “be protected from them”. They were the finest mercenaries of ancient times. Some had allied with the Devas, while others joined the Asuras. Raavan himself is half Rakshasa.’
If karma is giving you a negative signal repeatedly, then it is not testing you, it is trying to teach you.
Your responsibility is great; your mission is all-important. Stay true to it. Stay humble, but not so humble that you don’t accept your responsibilities.
‘If He is my God, if He picks my side over someone else’s, He is not the One God. The only true One God is the one who picks no sides, who belongs to everything, who doesn’t demand loyalty or fear; in fact, who doesn’t demand anything at all. Because the Ekam just exists; and His existence allows for the existence of all else.’
There is something positive hidden in every negative, and something negative hidden in every positive. Life is complicated, and a balanced person can see both sides.
‘Women are equal to men in mental abilities.’
One of them is looking upon marriage as a sacred partnership between two souls; not as a political alliance between two power centres.’
She has that something, like the thread in a crystal-bead necklace. She holds it all together.
A person becomes a Brahmin by karma, not by birth.
A leader is not just one who leads. He must also be a role model. He must practise what he preaches, Sita.’
A rishi was the highest status, below Godhood, that any person could achieve.
‘It will be Meluha.’
‘It’s touching to see the faith my family has in me. No one seems to trust me to be able to keep myself alive.’
‘Death is believed to be inauspicious in some foreign lands to the west of us; to them it signifies the end of everything. But nothing ever really dies. No material can ever truly escape the universe. It just changes form. In that sense, death is actually also the beginning of regeneration; the old form dies and a new form is born. If the south is the direction of death, then it is also the direction of regeneration.’
