Raja Quotes

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life; dream of it; think of it; live on that idea. Let the brain, the body, muscles, nerves, every part of your body be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, and this is the way great spiritual giants are produced.

Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare men call God infinite, and yet try to compress Him within the covers of a little book!

Tajam keris raja, tajam lagi pena pujangga.

Without missing a beat he said, “This year, Santa, I’d like a pony and an Easy-Bake Oven.” Raja grunted and pushed him off to the side. “You’ll be getting coal in a place where it hurts if you ever attempt to sit in my lap again.

Take Risks in Your Life If u Win, U Can Lead! If u Lose, U Can Guide!

The worms do not take heed of caste and rank when they feast on our ashes," the Raja said. "Your subjects will not remember you. They will not remember the shade of your eyes, the colors you favored, or the beauty of your wives. They will only remember your impression upon their hearts and whether you filled them with glee or grief. That is your immortality.

Di kolong langit Kau adalah doa, Aku orang buta. Di sajak para Raja Kau adalah permaisuri Dan aku, sang sufi pada ayunan sepi

Pantang sekali Melayu menderhaka kepada raja. Hanya kalau raja jahat benar-benar, seperti gila, atau benci ia kepada Islam maka waktu itulah boleh raja dimungkiri.

Kau tahu Burlian? Dialah yang mengalahkan raja-raja hebat dunia. Menggerus gunung menjadi rata. Membuat daratan jadi lautan. Dialah sang waktu.

Kau mengabdi pada tanah ini, tanah yang memberimu nasi dan air. Tapi para raja dan para pengeran dan para bupati sudah jual tanah keramat ini pada Belanda. Kau hanya baru sampai melawan para raja, para pangeran, dan para bupati. Satu turunan tidak bakal selesai. Kalau para raja, pangeran, dan bupati sudah dikalahkan, baru kau bisa berhadapan pada Belanda. Entah berapa turunan lagi. Tapi kerja itu mesti dimulai.

Jangan trauma dengan pengkhianatan masa silam. Jangan bimbang dengan pengkhinatan masa akan datang. Tetapi binalah cita-cita besar yang mampu ’meremehkan’ semua itu. Dengan cita-cita besar kita akan menjadi raja. Bukan raja untuk berbangga tetapi raja yang mempunyai keyakinan diri dan kemurnian reputasi. Biarlah anjing menyalak bukit. Bukit tidak akan runtuh. Begitulah orang yang menikam kita dari belakang… kerana dia hakikatnya lemah penakut dan tidak punya keyakinan diri untuk bertarung secara berdepan

Aku ada buku, aku tak perlukan pakaian atau sepatu khusus untuk berjalan ke perbukitan.

Swagruhe Pujyate Murkhaha; Swagraame Pujyate Prabhuhu Swadeshe Pujyate Raja; Vidvaansarvatra Pujyate. A fool is worshipped in his home. A chief is worshipped in his village. A king is worshipped in his kingdom. A knowledgeable person is worshipped everywhere.

It is Einstein’s famous equation E=MC^2, in which E is energy (rajas), M is mass (tamas), and C is the speed of light (sattva). Energy, mass, and light are endlessly bound together in the universe.

Don't get me wrong—he's hot as hell, and in another life I would have liked to wear him as a mink coat. But when your first thought about someone is wondering whether they're some sort of handsome woodland serial killer, it's hard to build an attraction.

The moment you understand yourself as the true Self, you find such peace and bliss that the impressions of the petty enjoyments you experienced before become as ordinary specks of light in front of the brilliant sun.

As the mind, so the person; bondage or liberation are in your own mind.” If you feel bound, you are bound. If you feel liberated, you are liberated. Things outside neither bind nor liberate you; only your attitude toward them does that.

Mahkotaku berada di dalam hati, bukan di kepala. Tidak dihiasi intan dan permata dari India, Bukan pula untuk dipamerkan. Mahkotaku disebut Kepuasan, mahkota yang jarang dinikmati raja-raja.

Let us all dedicate our lives for the sake of the entire humanity. With every minute, every breath, every atom of our bodies we should repeat this mantra: “dedication, dedication, giving, giving, loving, loving.

Letakkan cambukmu, raja, kau yang tak tahu bagaimana ilmu dan pengetahuan telah membuka babak baru di bumi manusia ini.

Rajas is activity and Tamas inertia. Sattva is the balance of these two, for only consciousness can balance kinetic energy with potential energy.

When the body is sufficiently controlled, we can attempt the manipulation of the mind.

That which is the Real Self of Man is the Divine Spark sent forth from the Sacred Flame.

there is a continuity of mind, as the Yogis call it. The mind is universal. Your mind, my mind, all these little minds, are fragments of that universal mind, little waves in the ocean; and

Yeilding to the power of rajas, he identifies himself with the many motions and changes of the mind. Therefore he is swept hither and thither, now rising, now sinking, in the boundless ocean of birth and death, whose waters are full of the poison of sense-objects. This is indeed a miserable fate.

Tell your body that it is strong, tell your mind that it is strong, and have unbounded faith and hope in yourself.

When sun about to set down, it glows so bright one more time to shine everything up

Sesebuah bangsa yang maju mesti mempunyai keupayaan untuk mentertawakan diri sendiri.

Di masa depan Indonesia dijajah nafsu kekuasaan dan harta benda. Korupsi menjadi raja dan uang sebagai ratu. Hukum dilelang di pasar bebas, siapa yang bisa bayar lebih dia yang akan menang

Mohabat ki khatir to admi suli charta rahe, marta rahe, khapta rahe, par kisi ki ana ko mota karne k liye koi kab tak apni jaan mare?

Seorang intelektual adalah seorang yang mandiri dan menyampaikan pandangannya dengan segala kejujuran dan kearifannya tanpa menapis atau menyesuaikan rumusannya untuk menyedapkan hati para pengendali kekuasaan.

Maukah kau pergi? Atau menyingkir sejenak dari otakku? Cukuplah tinggal di hatiku, usah kau singgah di pikiran.. Maaf, aku lelah untuk terus berpikir kemungkinan tentang kita." kataku dengan nada marah. Ya, kau selalu saja hadir dalam tiap pikiranku hingga aku sesak memikirkan kemungkinan-kemungkinan yang ada tentangmu.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life; dream of it; think of it; live on that idea. Let the brain, the body, muscles, nerves, every part of your body be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, and this is the way great spiritual giants are produced.” ― Swami Vivekananda, Vedanta Philosophy: Lectures by the Swami Vivekananda on Raja Yoga Also Pantanjali's Yoga Aphorisms, with Commentaries, and Glossary of Sa

Jika seseorang individu atau tokoh itu mempunyai kredibiliti dan kekuatan maknawi yang tersendiri, ide dan falsafah hidupnya tetap boleh menerangi persekitarannya meskipun dia tidak menjawat apa-apa jabatan.

Kesetiaan memang bisa diharapkan dari mereka (orang kebanyakan), tetapi kebesaran hanya bisa datang dari seorang raja yang bijaksana

Wajar bagi anak burung dan binatang lain diberi makan oleh ibu mereka, tapi raja dan ratu tampaknya tak pernah dewasa, mereka menuntut diberi makan oleh yang lain seumur hidup. Kemandirian adalah sesuatu yang tak pernah mereka lakukan atau pelajari

The human mind is like that monkey, incessantly active by its own nature; then it becomes drunk with the wine of desire, thus increasing its turbulence. After desire takes possession comes the sting of the scorpion of jealousy at the success of others, and last of all the demon of pride enters the mind, making it think itself of all importance.

Ponekad nešto moraš da prećutiš, da povučeš potez koji neće odmah biti jasan, da budeš neprimereno blag ili pak grub...dođavola, da li te to čini manipulatorom? Hm. (...) Ali kako beše ide priča o prvim izbeglicama? Sećate se, onaj ljupki par što je proteran iz Raja? Razlog: dirnuli su u zabranjeno znanje. I šta sad, manipulacija je za osudu, Tvorac je manipulator - a isti je simbol konačnog principa dobra. Paradoks ili objašnjenje nužnosti?

But the moment you point at a difference, you enter, regardless of age, an already existing system of differences, a network of identities, all of them ultimately arbitrary and unrelated to your intentions, none of them a matter of your choice. The moment you other someone, you other yourself. When I idiotically pointed at Almir's non-existent difference, I expelled myself from my raja.

If you can control the rising of the mind into ripples, you will experience Yoga.

Intellect is cold - Spiritual Consciousness is warm and alive with high feeling.

The idea is, when a man receives a gift from another, his heart becomes impure, he becomes low, he loses his independence, he becomes bound and attached.

Butuh tekad dan keberanian yang besar untuk menaklukan bahaya demi tujuan yang besar pula.

Menulislah yang membantuku mengatasi rasa marah yang membakar di hati kebanyakan rakyat Palestina.

Kematian adalah obat yang paling mujarab, sedangkan bunuh diri merupakan kebodohan yang sangat dungu!

When you step beyond thought and intellect and all reasoning, then you have made the first step towards God; and that is the beginning of life.

Jika anda mampu berkepala dingin saat sekeliling anda kehilangan akal dan menyalahkan anda, Jika anda bisa percaya diri saat orang lain meragukan anda, tetapi memperhatikan juga keraguan mereka, Jika anda bisa menunggu tanpa jemu dan tidak membalas kebohongan dengan kebohongan, atau kebencian dengan kebencian, Jika anda bisa tahan mendengar kebenaran yang anda katakan diplintir oleh orang licik untk mempengaruhi orang-orang bodoh, atau melihat jerih payah anda dihancurkan, tapi gigih bertahan membangunnya kembali dengan peralatan yang morat marit, Jika anda bisa bergaul dengan rakyat jelata tanpa menjadi kampungan, dan dengan raja-raja tanpa menjadi sombong, Jika lawan mau pun kawan tidak bisa merusakkan anda, maka anda adalah sungguh manusia sejati.

Lamlah tidak mau jadi anak laja, Lamlah anak bapak dan anak mak," jawab budak yang belum mengenal kemuliaan dunia itu. Ala, bodoh si Malah ini, tidak mau jadi anak raja?" kata si Samin mencampuri percakapan itu. "Anak raja senang sekali, duitnya banyak, hari-hari makan ayam." Kalau si Samin ini, tak lain daripada memikirkan pengisi perut saja," kata mak si Samin dari balik dinding. Ya, abang ini lakus benal, endak makan ayam saja seperti musang," kata si Ramlah.

If you are that patient, your mind is more settled, and what you do will be more perfect. If you are unsettled and anxious to get the result, you are already disturbed; nothing done with that disturbed mind will have quality. So, it is not only how long you practice, but with what patience, what earnestness and what quality also.

He disdains such cowardly acts as looking in wing mirrors or using his indicators. His Ambassador is his chariot, his klaxon his sword. Weaving into the oncoming traffic, playing ‘chicken’ with the other taxis, Balvinder Singh is a Raja of the Road.

That who sold the expensive for no price, bought the cheap with the highest price.

Who is the seer? The Self of man, the Purusha. What is the scene? The whole of nature beginning with the mind, down to gross matter.

Yang asalnya haram itu tidak akan berakhir dengan baik meskipun dibasuh dengan niat yang suci

Ini bukan pertama kali kita kalah, tapi kini pemimpin kita meraikannya seolah kita menang. (Tentang Perjanjian Damai Oslo antara Israel-Palestin)

We may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth, until we experience it ourselves.

You may sit down and listen to me by the hour every day, but if you do not practice, you will not get one step further. It all depends on practice.

Anything that is secret and mysterious in these systems of Yoga should be at once rejected. The best guide in life is strength. In religion, as in all other matters, discard everything that weakens you, have nothing to do with it.

Cerita-cerita ringan dalam buku ini boleh dijadikan bahan dasar penting untuk memulai langkah terobosan: menjadikan gejala keberagaman unik orang-orang di Indonesia Timur sebagai acuan baru!

I looked back to see if she was looking back to see me look back. She didn’t. Suddenly a thick layer of mist covered her and I only saw a silhouette in black moving away from me. Slowly it turned into a shadow and then a dot. Strong wind blew the fog. She had gone from my life like the way she came.

The next step is Asana, posture. A series of exercises, physical and mental, is to be gone through every day, until certain higher states are reached. Therefore it is quite necessary that we should find a posture in which we can remain long. That posture which is the easiest for one should be the one chosen.

When by analyzing his own mind, man comes face to face, as it were, with something which is never destroyed, something which is, by its own nature, eternally pure and perfect, he will no more be miserable, no more unhappy.

Pranayama. Stopping the right nostril with the thumb, through the left nostril fill in air, according to capacity; then, without any interval, throw the air out through the right nostril, closing the left one. Again inhaling through the right nostril eject through the left, according to capacity; practicing this three or five times at four hours of the day, before dawn, during midday, in the evening, and at midnight, in fifteen days or a month purity of the nerves is attained; then begins Pranayama.

Taalim-o-tadrees ki barhi bad naseebi yeh hai ky aam ustaad amuman oast darjay ka shakhs hota hai aur woh zehni, jismani aur jazbaati tor per lakiir key fakiir qisam ki batin sochta hai. Isy zabt-o-nazam sy middle calss logo sy aur parhaku talbah ko parhany sy muhabbat hoti hai. Lykin sara din woh barhi qadar awar shakhsieto aur in ky karnaamo ki misalen dyta hai. Aysy log jinhuny kabhi mawshray ky saath mutabqat na ki. aam tareen hoty hoy woh aysy logo ki taalim-e-aam kerta hai jin ki satah per woh soch bhi nahi sakta , jin ki satah per woh soch bhi nahi sakta. Is ka apna kirdaar in bechu ko aam banany per masar rehta hai aur iski taalim bechu ko khaas banany per uksati hai. School sy bhaag jany waly bechu ki jagah school mai nahi hoti lykin inhi baaghi bechu ko bench per kharha ker ky in azeem shakhsieto ki rosahn misalen di jati hain jo khud school sy bhagy hoty hyn. Woh bechu ko geniouses ki kitaaben padha ker aam bnany ki koshish kerta hai aur yehi taalim ka sub sy barha almiyah hy." Bano Qudsia

Guna means strand, and in the Gita the gunas are described as the very fabric of existence, the veil that hides unity in a covering of diversity. Tamas is maya’s power of concealment, the darkness or ignorance that hides unitive reality; rajas distracts and scatters awareness, turning it away from reality toward the diversity of the outside world. Thus the gunas are essentially born of the mind. When the mind’s activity is stilled, we see life as it is.

There was not enough time for the rebellion and the dream. The rebellion had consumed all the available time.

Fortunately there are wars. And rationing is one of the grandest inventions of man. You stamp paper with figures and you feed stomachs on numbers.

Sometimes we have to lose somthing precious not necessarilly to gain something priceless; sometimes, just losing is priceless

پرانے وقتوں کو یاد نہیں کرتے زیادہ، نئے دنوں میں گھن لگ جاتا ہے

جب محبت ملے گی تو پھر سب حق خوشی سے ادا ہوں گے، محبت کے بغیر ہر حق ایسے ملے گا جیسے مرنے کے بعد کفن ملتا ہے۔

All this bringing of the mind into a higher state of vibration is included in one word in Yoga — Samadhi.

When this Sushumna current opens, and begins to rise, we get beyond the senses, our minds become supersensuous, superconscious -- we get beyond even the intellect,

There is nothing holier in the world than to keep good company, because the good impressions will then tend to come to the surface.

One should learn to be happy and content by himself, for everything else life is there to give a perfect lesson.

Kau tidak mengabdi padaku man, tidak, man. Kalau kau cuma mengabdi padaku, kalau aku tewas kau tinggal hidup, kau mengabdi kepada siapa lagi? kau cari Bendoro baru, kalau dia juga tewas? Kau mengabdi pada tanah ini, tanah yang memberimu nasi dan air. Tapi para raja dan para pangeran dan para bupati sudah jual tanah keramat ini pada Belanda. Kau hanya baru sampai melawan para raja, para pangeran, dan para bupati. Satu keturunan tidak bakal selesai, man. Kalau para raja, pangeran, dan bupati sudah dikalahkan, baru kau bisa berhadapan pada Belanda. Entah berapa turunan lagi. Tapi kerja itu mesti dimulai.

What Raja Ram Mohun Roy began as a reform movment early in the 19th century Devendranath Tagore made into a religion. It transformed the Bengali middle class. Rabindranath Tagore expanded that religion into a culture. And that culture became Nehru’s politics.

Divorce the idea of your being a physical being, and realize that you are above body. But do not let this conception and realization cause you to ignore the body. You must regard the body as the Temple of the Spirit, and care for it, and make it a fit habitation

Apa guna belajar ilmu dan pengetahuan Eropa, bergaul dengan orang-orang Eropa, kalau akhirnya toh harus merangkak, beringsut seperti keong dan menyembah seorang raja kecil yang barang kali buta huruf pula! God, God! Menghadap bupati sama dengan bersiap menampung penghinaan tanpa boleh membela diri. Tak pernah aku memaksa orang lai berbuat semacam itu terhadapku. Mengapa harus kulakukan untuk orang lain? Sambar gledek!

The organs are the horses, the mind is the rein, the intellect is the charioteer, the soul is the rider, and the body is the chariot. The master of the household, the King, the Self of man, is sitting in this chariot.

We can read all the Vedas, and yet will not realize anything, but when we practice their teachings, then we attain to that state which realizes what the scriptures say, which penetrates where neither reason nor perception nor inference can go, and where the testimony of others cannot avail.

If the subject is a good one, we shall feel friendly towards it; if the subject of thought is one that is miserable, we must be merciful towards it. If it is good, we must be glad; if it is evil, we must be indifferent.

The man who thinks that he is receiving response to his prayers does not know that the fulfillment comes from his own nature, that he has succeeded by the mental attitude of prayer in waking up a bit of this infinite power which is coiled up within himself. What, thus, men ignorantly worship under various names, through fear and tribulation, the Yogi declares to the world to be the real power coiled up in every being, the mother of eternal happiness, if we but know how to approach her. And Raja-Yoga is the science of religion, the rationale of all worship, all prayers, forms, ceremonies, and miracles.

Nada funciona aquí. Ni la ley del talión ni la ley de Cristo. La primera, porque el estado ni la aplica ni la deja aplicar: ni raja ni presta el hacha como mi difunta mamá. La segunda porque es intrínsecamente perversa. Cristo es el gran introductor de la impunidad y el desorden en el mundo. Cuando tú vuelves a Colombia la otra mejilla, de un segundo trancazo te acaban de desprender la retina. Y una vez que no ves, te cascan de una puñalada en el corazón.

Seorang pangeran mungkin bisa didapat dari dilahirkan, tapi seorang pangeran sejati harus diciptakan, tidak ada seorang pun yang sempurna sejak dilahirkan. Mungkin banyak pangeran yang lahir untuk menjadi raja tapi jauh lebih banyak raja-raja besar yang diciptakan oleh lingkungan dan berasal orang biasa tanpa memiliki apa pun dari awalnya. Dengan kerja keras, keringatnya dan ketulusan hatinya yang ingin membahagiakan banyak orang membuat Tuhan memberkati jalannya.” - wise old man to little Jaime

Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this Divinity within by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work, or worship, or psychic control, or philosophy - by one, or more, or all of these -- and be free. This is the whole of religion. Doctrines, or dogmas, or rituals, or books, or temples, or forms, are but secondary details.

The ideal of all education, all training, should be this man-making. But, instead of that, we are always trying to polish up the outside. What use in polishing up the outside when there is no inside? The end and aim of all training is to make the man grow. The man who influences, who throws his magic, as it were, upon his fellow-beings, is a dynamo of power, and when that man is ready, he can do anything and everything he likes; that personality put upon anything will make it work.

Jebi se, Nina. Jebi se ti i tvoje zelene oči i tvoj Beograd i sve u što se mogu zaljubiti. Neka se jebu tvoje ruke i trbuh i kosa. Jebo te tvoj fakultet. Samo 30 slova, a tolike knjige. Jebo nas oboje smisao za kombiniranje. Jebala te košava i ekipa iz kraja koja misli da je uhvatila boga za muda, a nikad nije bila ni do Pančeva. Jebo te tvoj dečko, vjerojatno neki hipster koji misli da je maslačak najbolja salata na svijetu i obožava prirodu. Jebalo te svako slovo koje si napisala. Bilo bi pošteno da boli. Jebo te ormar u koji se sakrivaš kako bismo razgovarali. Jebo te tvoj mazni glas. Jebala te nova godina na vikendici. Jebo te način na koji se krećeš između kafanskih stolova. Jebalo te izluđivanje koje to izaziva. Jebala te zahvalnost koju nikad nećeš iskazati jer nemaš petlje da potpuno poludiš. Pravi, jebi se, salatu od maslačka na vikendici. Jebo te tvoj broj telefona. Jebalo mene što pomislim da je ključ od raja. Jebale te tvoje poruke koje zvuče kao dahtanje pod prstima. Jebali te ranojutarnji razgovori s muškarcima koje ne poznaješ. Jebo želju da budemo sretni. Jebo nesposobnost i kukavičluk da to pokušamo. Jebo opet novu godinu. Jebem svaku misao o tebi i to što znam nešto o rasparenim čarapama u kojima stojiš dok režeš meso za večeru. Jebi se, Nina, jer nikad se nećemo voljeti dok nas ne zaboli. Jebale te električne instalacije u tvom stanu i prošli životi koji nas plaše. Jebo Lisabon, treba ga bombardirati da vidimo hoće li tada biti romantičan. Jebeš mene, jer mogu biti lud toliko da mi nedostaješ, a da te nikad nisam dodirnuo, da čak ne znam ni kako izgledaš na dnevnoj svjetlosti. I jebeš dnevnu svjetlost. Tad su ljudi budni a ja želim da nema nikoga. Jebeš i to što ipak želim da si ti ovdje. Jebeš to što si moguća iznimka. I, opet, jebeš mene jer mogu vjerovati u sve to.

SeaMurgh ne teen baar phosphorus ki batti band ki aur goya hua: Tu theek kehta hai main janta hun sirf insaan sakin hai, kayinaat ki baqi tamam cheezain mutaharrik hain kyun ke insaan Matlub hai aur baqi her shay Taalib... Afsos insaan ne apnay aap ko Matlub ki jaga se hataa ker Taalib bana liya, isi liye gerdish main hai. Werna wo is qadar deewanay.pan ka shikar na hota aur ab tak Allah ki raza ko paa leta

Pelangi dan tempayan emas di hujung pelangi adalah aksara kata-kata yang lahir mulus dari mulut ahli-ahli politik yang pandai bersilat lidah bermain kata-kata. Bagi golongan budayawan dan intelektual umumnya yang lebih penting bukannya janji-janji emas di hujung pelangi tetapi apakah upaya kita dalam melayari kehidupan ini. Yang penting adalah rasa kasih, rasa hormat, rasa empati, rasa cinta dan bukannya harapan emas di hujung pelangi.

You can’t just go into the mind and erase the impressions. But they get themselves erased at one point. When? When you succeed in going within and realizing the peace and joy of your own Self. The moment you understand yourself as the true Self, you find such peace and bliss that the impressions of the petty enjoyments you experienced before become as ordinary specks of light in front of the brilliant sun. You lose all interest in them permanently. That is the highest non-attachment.

کچھ لمحے بڑے فیصلہ کن ہوتے ہیں۔ اس وقت یہ طے ہوتا ہے کہ کون کس شخص کا سیارہ بنایا جائے گا۔ جس طرح کسی خاص درجہ حرارت پر پہنچ کر ٹھوس مائع اور مائع گیس میں بدل جاتا ہے‘ اسی طرح کوئی خاص گھڑی بڑی نتیجہ خیز ثابت ہوتی ہے، اس وقت ایک قلب کی سوئیاں کسی دوسرے قلب کے تابع کر دی جاتی ہیں۔ پھر جو وقت پہلے قلب میں رہتا ہے وہی وقت دوسرے قلب کی گھڑی بتاتی ہے‘ جو موسم‘ جو رُت‘ جو پہلے دن میں طلوع ہوتا ہے وہی دوسرے آئینے منعکس ہو جاتا ہے۔ دوسرے قلب کی اپنی زندگی ساکت ہو جاتی ہے۔ اس کے بعد اس میں صرف بازگشت کی آواز آتی ہے

You may never realize that the tear that escaped my eyes as you bid farewell, despite my efforts to restrain it, carried within it an entire universe of concealed emotions, shattered dreams, & sentiments left unvoiced, a silent expression of the pain that words failed to convey

Meskipun aku suka sekali pohon ru, kuakui mereka seperti penjajah. Merekalah bukti betapa manusia telah menelantarkan bukit ini pada kuasa alam. Warna mereka hijau gelap, tak seperti pohon zaitun yang hijau kebiruan, dan mereka tinggi besar, seperti berusaha menguasai negeri di mana mereka menancapkan akar, memaksakan diri mereka atas bukit-bukit ini. Seperti pohon zaitun, akar mereka dekat dengan permukaan tanah, bentuknya bersimpul kemudian lurus seperti buku-buku jari. Kedua pohon itu sama-sama mengais demi sepetak tanah yang sama, sehingga sulit bagi keduanya untuk hidup berdampingan.

Why is there so much disturbance, so much fighting and quarrelling in the name of God? There has been more bloodshed in the name of God than for any other cause, because people never went to the fountain-head; they were content only to give a mental assent to the customs of their forefathers, and wanted others to do the same. What right has a man to say he has a soul if he does not feel it, or that there is a God if he does not see Him? If there is a God we must see Him, if there is a soul we must perceive it; otherwise it is better not to believe. It is better to be an outspoken atheist than a hypocrite.

Then the wind comes so swift and dashing that it takes the autumn leaves with it, and they rise into the juggling air, while the trees bleat and blubber. Then drops fall, big as the thumb … the earth itself seems to heave up and cheep in the monsoon rains. It churns and splashes, beats against the treetops, reckless and wilful, and suddenly floating forwards, it bucks back and spits forward and pours down upon the green, weak coffee leaves, thumping them down to the earth.

It seems to be contradictory. But the secret is that any desire without any personal or selfish motive will never bind you. Why? Because the pure, selfless desire has no expectation whatsoever, so it knows no disappointment no matter what the result. But though it expects nothing, it has its own reward. When you make someone happy, you see his or her happy face and feel happy yourself. If you have really experienced the joy of just giving something for the sake of giving, you will wait greedily for opportunities to get that joy again and again. Many people think that by renouncing everything, by becoming selfless and desireless, there is no enjoyment. No. That is not so. Instead, you become the happiest man or woman. The more you serve, the more happiness you enjoy. Such a person knows the secret of life. There is a joy in losing everything, in giving everything. You cannot be eternally happy by possessing things. The more you possess, the more sad you become. Haven’t we seen millionaires, people of high position, prime ministers, presidents? Are they happy? No. The higher the position, the greater the trouble. Only a saint, a renunciate, is always happy because there is nothing for a saint to lose. Because you don’t have anything, you have your Self always. That is the secret.

Fearlessness, singleness of soul, the will Always to strive for wisdom; opened hand And governed appetites; and piety, And love of lonely study; humbleness, Uprightness, heed to injure nought which lives, Truthfulness, slowness unto wrath, a mind That lightly letteth go what others prize; And equanimity, and charity Which spieth no man's faults; and tenderness Towards all that suffer; a contented heart, Fluttered by no desires; a bearing mild, Modest, and grave, with manhood nobly mixed, With patience, fortitude, and purity; An unrevengeful spirit, never given To rate itself too high;--such be the signs, O Indian Prince! of him whose feet are set On that fair path which leads to heavenly birth! Deceitfulness, and arrogance, and pride, Quickness to anger, harsh and evil speech, And ignorance, to its own darkness blind,-- These be the signs, My Prince! of him whose birth Is fated for the regions of the vile.

In the play of living we engage in three fundamental forms of action. We begin things, we continue to be engaged in things, and we bring things to an end. We are each obligated to be capable of fulfilling these three forms of action relative to every condition in our experience. To suffer disability relative to any of these three forms of action relative to any condition in our experience is to accumulate a tendency relative to that condition. Such is the way we develop our conventional "karmas." By virtue of such accumulations we are obliged to suffer repetitions of circumstances, in this life and from life to life, until we overcome the liability in our active relationship to each condition that binds us. In the manifest process of existence, we and all other functions in the play are under the same lawful obligation to create, sustain, and destroy conditions or patterns that arise. The inhibition or suppression of the ability to create conditions (or to realize that conditions are your creation and responsibility) is reflected as "tamas," or rigidity, inertia, indolence, and laziness. The inhibition or suppression of the ability to sustain (or to realize that the maintenance of conditions is your responsibility) is reflected as "rajas," or unsteadiness of life and attention, and negative and random excitation or emotion. The inhibition or suppression of the ability to destroy or become free of conditions (or to realize that the cessation of conditions is your responsibility) is reflected as artificial "sattwa," sentimentality, romance, sorrow, bondage to subjectivity, and no comprehension of the mystery of death.

A bare two years after Vasco da Gama’s voyage a Portuguese fleet led by Pedro Alvarez Cabral arrived on the Malabar coast. Cabral delivered a letter from the king of Portugal to the Samudri (Samudra-raja or Sea-king), the Hindu ruler of the city-state of Calicut, demanding that he expel all Muslims from his kingdom as they were enemies of the ‘Holy Faith’. He met with a blank refusal; then afterwards the Samudra steadfastly maintained that Calicut had always been open to everyone who wished to trade there… During those early years the people who had traditionally participated in the Indian Ocean trade were taken completely by surprise. In all the centuries in which it had flourished and grown, no state or kings or ruling power had ever before tried to gain control of the Indian Ocean trade by force of arms. The territorial and dynastic ambitions that were pursued with such determination on land were generally not allowed to spill over into the sea. Within the Western historiographical record the unarmed character of the Indian Ocean trade is often represented as a lack, or failure, one that invited the intervention of Europe, with its increasing proficiency in war. When a defeat is as complete as was that of the trading cultures of the Indian Ocean, it is hard to allow the vanquished the dignity of nuances of choice and preference. Yet it is worth allowing for the possibility that the peaceful traditions of the oceanic trade may have been, in a quiet and inarticulate way, the product of a rare cultural choice — one that may have owed a great deal to the pacifist customs and beliefs of the Gujarati Jains and Vanias who played such an important part in it. At the time, at least one European was moved to bewilderment by the unfamiliar mores of the region; a response more honest perhaps than the trust in historical inevitability that has supplanted it since. ‘The heathen [of Gujarat]’, wrote Tomé Pires, early in the sixteenth century, ‘held that they must never kill anyone, nor must they have armed men in their company. If they were captured and [their captors] wanted to kill them all, they did not resist. This is the Gujarat law among the heathen.’ It was because of those singular traditions, perhaps, that the rulers of the Indian Ocean ports were utterly confounded by the demands and actions of the Portuguese. Having long been accustomed to the tradesmen’s rules of bargaining and compromise they tried time and time again to reach an understanding with the Europeans — only to discover, as one historian has put it, that the choice was ‘between resistance and submission; co-operation was not offered.’ Unable to compete in the Indian Ocean trade by purely commercial means, the Europeans were bent on taking control of it by aggression, pure and distilled, by unleashing violence on a scale unprecedented on those shores.

Kad mladost jednom prođe, nastupa dekadencija, starost koja ostavlja neizbrisive tragove, dolaze bolesti, a prijatelji odlaze. Na kraju krajeva, nastavljanjem života ništa se ne dobija; naprotiv, otvaraju se samo nove mogućnosti za patnju." "BILA JE TO LEPA USPOMENA IZ ŽIVOTA: SUMRAK, MUZIKA KOJA ISPREDA SNOVE S DRUGE STRANE SVETA, TOPLA I UTUTKANA SOBA, ZGODAN MLADIĆ PUN ŽIVOTA, KOJI JE PROLAZIO, ODLUČIO DA ZASTANE I ZAGLEDAO SE U NJU." "ČITAVOG ŽIVOTA JE SAMO NEŠTO ČEKALA; OCA DA SE VRATI S POSLA, PISMO OD MLADIĆA KOJE NIKAKO NIJE STIZALO, ISPITE NA KRAJU GODINE, TRAMVAJ, AUTOBUS, TELEFONSKI POZIV, RASPUST, KRAJ RASPUSTA. A SADA JE MORALA DA ČEKA I SMRT, KOJA ĆE DOĆI ZAKAZANOG DANA. - To se samo meni može desiti. Ljudi obično umiru onda kad se tome najmanje nadaju." "Kad je postigla gotovo sve što je želela u životu, zaključila je da taj život nema smisla, jer su svi dani jednaki. I odlučila je da umre." "I junaci i heroji su podjednako ravnodušni prema opasnosti, i uvek nastavljaju svojim putem, uprkos upozorenjima da to ne treba da čine. Ludak se ubija, junak se žrtvuje u ime neke ideje - ali i jedan i drugi umiru po svojoj volji - a ogorčeni i danima i noćima odmeravaju i pretresaju besmisao i veličinu tog postupka. To su i jedini trenuci kada bi ogorčeni smogao snage da se popne do vrha svog odbrambenog bedema i proviri napolje; ali ubrzo bi ga sustigao umor i on bi se vraćao kolotečini svakodnevice." "Možemo u životu činiti svakakve greške. Izuzev jedne: one koja će nas uništiti." "Sve je pogrešno. Jer ako ceo svet o nečemu sanja, a samo neznatna manjina to otvari, onda se svi osećaju kao kukavice." "PROVEO SAM JEDAN DEO SVOG ŽIVOTA GLEDAJUĆI VETAR, ALI SAM ZABORAVIO DA SEJEM, I NISAM ISKORISTIO SVOJE DANE, NITI SAM POPIO VINO KOJE MI JE BILO PONUĐENO. ALI JEDNOG DANA OSETIO SAM DA SAM SPREMAN I VRATIO SAM SE SVOME POSLU. ISPRIČAO SAM LJUDIMA SVOJE VIZIJE RAJA, KAO ŠTO SU BOG, VAN GOG, VAGNER, BETOVEN, AJNŠTAJN I DRUGI MUDRACI ČINILI PRE MENE." "POGLEDAJ DOBRO MOJE LICE. SAČUVAJ GA U OČIMA SVOJE DUŠE, DA BI MOGAO JEDNOG DANA DA GA NASLIKAŠ PO SEĆANJU.

It was the old colonial policy of divide and rule. This was his conclusion. He believed that it all began with the Balfour Declaration of 1917 and that since then the British had been encouraging hatred and enmity between the two sides. He wrote that ever since the Jews were granted the Balfour Declaration the colonizer has been active in fostering the spirit of enmity and hatred between Jews and Arabs and in creating obstacles in the way of any resolution whether by war or peace. Woe unto whoever is inspired to work on any of the complicated issues. If he should dare to exhibit any initiative he is considered a dangerous suspect and his name is added to the list of enemies. The colonizer then presses the button which signals his barking dogs to attack the man and destroy him.