Kalidasa Quotes

Yesterday is but a dream, Tomorrow is only a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope.

Today well lived makes every yesterday a memory of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.

Hadapilah hari ini! Inilah saatnya untuk menuntut hidup yang nyata, Dalam rentang waktu yang pendek ini, kita mendapat kesempatan untuk: Berkembang dengan gembira, bertindak dengan mulia. Menciptakan keindahan yang mempesona, Karena hari kemarin cuma mimpi dan hari esok cuma bayang-bayang. Tapi bila hari ini kita jalani dengan baik, setiap hari kemarin akan menjadi mimpi yang indah. Dan setiap hari esok menjadi bayang-bayang harapan. Jadi manfaatkanlah hari ini sebaik-baiknya.

87. Just maybe These cool Himalayan winds that burst open the tender shoots of the deodar and drink the fragrance of its sap hurry southwards to me. I embrace them, my love for what if by the tiniest chance they had touched you? Cloud Messenger, Kalidasa, 400 CE?

O Cloud, in all the lands you choose, gathering greater glory in the rains; may you never be parted from the lightning even for an instant.

The ancient Varna system was re-engineered under colonial rule to result in the modern caste system. Blaming caste abuse today back onto ancient history is a mischaracterization of Hindu dharma as the cause of social oppression. Such claims do not explain how Valmiki (author of the Ramayana), or Vyasa (author of the Mahabharata) rose from the humblest strata to be revered by all. Nor does it explain how the great sage Vasishta achieved his brilliance despite being born in the most challenged community. Even Kalidasa, who is respected as the greatest Sanskrit poet, had humble origins.

He who seeks beauty will eventually find it, and discover that the Persians are not entirely deceived in their Hafiz, nor the Hindoos in their Kalidasa.

मेघस्यास्मिन्नतिनिपुणता बुद्धिभावः कवीनां नत्वार्यायाश्चरणकमलं कालिदासश्चकार The cloud is very skilled in this and the poets have a sense of intelligence Kalidasa bowed at the lotus feet of Arya

Just then, the snow geese, a wide band of glittering white on the cerulean water, took off. The sky sprang to life with dazzling wings tinged with black. The birds hovered above us and drifted into a cloud formation, dense and massive like Kalidasa's cloud messenger-- who carried messages of love between two separated lovers-- showering us with cosmic blessings as we left our refuge.

Fruit-laden trees bend down to earth; The water-pregnant clouds hang low; Good men are not puffed up by power— The unselfish are by nature so.

When evening comes, the shadow of the tree Is cast far forward, yet does not depart; Even so, belovèd, wheresoe'er you be, The thought of you can never leave my heart.

Manu’s verse quoted above, declares that the ‘satisfaction of the mind is the only authority in cases of conflicting alternatives’. 54 The classical poet, Kalidasa, who lived in the fifth century AD , was of the same view: ‘In matters where doubt intervenes, the [natural] inclination of the heart of the good person becomes the “authority" or the decisive factor.’ 55

India is a highly civilized nation - a nation which developed a rich culture much earlier than any nation of Europe, and has never lost it. India was the first and only nation that proved too powerful for Alexander the Great. It was India that stopped his advance and compelled him to turn back in his career of world conquest. India gave to the world two out of six of its greatest Historic religions. Of the six greatest Epic Poems of the world India produced two. India gave to mankind - Kalidasa. India contributed enormously to the origin and advancement of Civilization by giving to the world its immensely important decimal system, which is the foundation of modern mathematics and much modern science. India early created the beginning of nearly all of the sciences, some of which she carried forward to remarkable degrees of development, thus leading the world. India has produced great literature, great arts, great philosophical systems, great religions, and great men in every department of life - rulers, statesmen, financiers, scholars, poets, generals, colonizers, ship-builders, skilled artisans and craftsmen of every kind, agriculturists, industrial organizers and leaders in far-reaching trade and commerce by land and sea. For 2,500 years India was pre-eminently the intellectual and spiritual teacher of Asia, which means of half the human race.