Happy Independence Day : India ( Bharat )

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||JAI BHARAT MATA ||

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Remembrance of the unknown great souls.

 

Anukta ye bhakta Haricharanasamsaktahrdaya

Avijnata vira adhisamaramuddhvastaripavahI

Mahamanah santo Bharatabhuvi ye santi cha pare

Namastebhya bhuyadusasi sakalebhyah pratidinamII

 

There have been numerous other Bhaktas born on this land who had their hears set

on the lotus feet of God, but whose names have not been mentioned in this stotra

(hymn); similarly, there have been countless unknown brave warriors on this land

who routed their opponents in the battlefield; and then, there have been or are

still many other great and saintly personalities born on the sol of Bharata - -

we pay our daily obeisance to all these great souls belonging to the past or the

presets age.

 

Verse

Fruit from daily recitence of Pratah-Smaran

 

Pratah-Smaranametad yo viditval" daratah pather!

Sa Samyag dharmanisthah syat

samsmrta"khandabharatah ||

 

He who properly understands this Pratah-Smarana, and daily recites it

ceremonially with devotion, will be a thoroughly religions fellow, and the

picture of Akhanda Bharata (entire undivided India) will, for ever, remain

engraved in his heart.

 

|| May Bharata Mata be triumphant and victorious for ever! ||

 

"There is no birth, there is no death,

there is only the spirit seeking evolution in higher and higher

stages of life."(That is the history of India and that of Asia.)

-Naidu,sarojini

 

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National Emblem of India

 

The National emblem is a symbol of contemporary India's reaffirmation of its

commitment to world peace and goodwill.

 

 

THE NATIONAL ANTHEM OF INDIA

Jana-Gana-Mana(Thou Art the Ruler of All Minds)

The Indian National anthem, composed originally in Bengali by Rabindranath

Tagore, was adopted in its Hindi version by the Constituent Assembly as the

National Anthem of India on 24 January 1950. It was first sung 27 December 1911

at the Calcutta session of the Indian National Congress. The complete song

consists of five stanzas. The lyrics were rendered into English by Tagore

himself.

 

 

NATIONAL ANTHEM OF INDIA

 

" Jana Gana Mana Adhinayaka Jaya HeBharat Bhagya VidhataPunjab Sindh Gujarat

MarathaDravida Utkala BangaVindhya Himachal Yamuna GangaUcchala Jaladhi

TarangaTubh Shubha Name JageTubh Shubha Ashisha MangeGahe Tubh Jaya GataJan Gan

Mangaldayak Jay HeBharat Bhagya VidhataJaye He ! Jaye He ! Jaye He

!Jaye,Jaye,Jaye,Jaye He "

 

 

Translation of The national anthem- Jana Gana Mana In English

 

Thou are the ruler of the minds of all people, dispenser of India's destiny.

 

The name rouses the hearts of Punjab, Sind, Gujurat and Maratha. Of the Dravid

and Orissa and Bengal.

 

It Echoes in the hills of Vindhyas and Himalayas, mingles in the music of Yamuna

and Ganga and is chanted by the waves of the Indian Sea.

 

They pray for your blessing and sing thy praise. The salvation of all peaople

is thy hand, thou dispenser of India's destiny. Victory, Victory, Victory to

thee.

 

 

The Jana Gana Mana was composed by Shri Rabindranath Tagore and first sung at

the Calcutta session of the Indian National Congress on December 27th, 1911. It

was adopted as the National Anthem of India on 24th January, 1950 by the

Constituent Assembly. The first stanza( out of five stanzas) of the song forms

the National Anthem.

 

Vande Mataram

 

The National Song of India

 

Vande maataraM

sujalaaM suphalaaM malayaja shiitalaaM

SasyashyaamalaaM maataram ||

 

Shubhrajyotsnaa pulakitayaaminiiM

pullakusumita drumadala shobhiniiM

suhaasiniiM sumadhura bhaashhiNiiM

sukhadaaM varadaaM maataraM ||

 

Koti koti kantha kalakalaninaada karaale

koti koti bhujai.rdhR^itakharakaravaale

abalaa keno maa eto bale

bahubaladhaariNiiM namaami taariNiiM

ripudalavaariNiiM maataraM ||

 

Tumi vidyaa tumi dharma

tumi hR^idi tumi marma

tvaM hi praaNaaH shariire

 

Baahute tumi maa shakti

hR^idaye tumi maa bhakti

tomaara i pratimaa gaDi

mandire mandire ||

 

TvaM hi durgaa dashapraharaNadhaariNii

kamalaa kamaladala vihaariNii

vaaNii vidyaadaayinii namaami tvaaM

 

Namaami kamalaaM amalaaM atulaaM

SujalaaM suphalaaM maataraM ||

 

ShyaamalaaM saralaaM susmitaaM bhuushhitaaM

DharaNiiM bharaNiiM maataraM |"

 

Translation by Shree Aurobindo

 

Mother, I bow to thee!

Rich with thy hurrying streams,

bright with orchard gleams,

Cool with thy winds of delight,

Dark fields waving Mother of might,

Mother free.

 

Glory of moonlight dreams,

Over thy branches and lordly streams,

Clad in thy blossoming trees,

Mother, giver of ease

Laughing low and sweet!

Mother I kiss thy feet,

Speaker sweet and low!

Mother, to thee I bow.

 

Who hath said thou art weak in thy lands

When the sword flesh out in the seventy million hands

And seventy million voices roar

Thy dreadful name from shore to shore?

With many strengths who art mighty and stored,

To thee I call Mother and Lord!

Though who savest, arise and save!

To her I cry who ever her foeman drove

Back from plain and Sea

And shook herself free.

 

Thou art wisdom, thou art law,

Thou art heart, our soul, our breath

Though art love divine, the awe

In our hearts that conquers death.

Thine the strength that nervs the arm,

Thine the beauty, thine the charm.

Every image made divine

In our temples is but thine.

 

Thou art Durga, Lady and Queen,

With her hands that strike and her

swords of sheen,

Thou art Lakshmi lotus-throned,

And the Muse a hundred-toned,

Pure and perfect without peer,

Mother lend thine ear,

Rich with thy hurrying streams,

Bright with thy orchard gleems,

Dark of hue O candid-fair

 

In thy soul, with jewelled hair

And thy glorious smile divine,

Lovilest of all earthly lands,

Showering wealth from well-stored hands!

Mother, mother mine!

Mother sweet, I bow to thee,

Mother great and free!

 

National Animal of India-THE TIGER.

 

National Bird of India-THE PEACOCK

 

National Fruit of India-THE MANGO

 

National Tree of India-THE BANYAN TREE

 

National Flower of India- THE LOTUS

 

QUOTES ON INDIA

 

"We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no

worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made!"

 

Albert Einstein

 

"If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men

have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of

existence, it is India!"

 

French scholar Romaine Rolland

 

 

"India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the

mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of

tradition. Our most valuable and most astrictive materials in the history of man

are treasured up in India only!"

 

Mark Twain

 

 

"So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or

nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his

rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked."

 

Mark Twain

 

 

"She (India) has left indelible imprints on one fourth of the human race in the

course of a long succession of centuries. She has the right to reclaim ... her

place amongst the great nations summarizing and symbolizing the spirit of

humanity. From Persia to the Chinese sea, from the icy regions of Siberia to

Islands of Java and Borneo, India has propagated her beliefs, her tales, and her

civilization!"

 

Sylvia Levi

 

 

"India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever

having to send a single soldier across her border!"

 

Hu Shih, former Ambassador of China to USA

 

 

"Civilizations have arisen in other parts of the world. In ancient and modern

times, wonderful ideas have been carried forward from one race to another...But

mark you, my friends, it has been always with the blast of war trumpets and the

march of embattled cohorts. Each idea had to be soaked in a deluge of blood.....

Each word of power had to be followed by the groans of millions, by the wails of

orphans, by the tears of widows. This, many other nations have taught; but India

for thousands of years peacefully existed. Here activity prevailed when even

Greece did not exist... Even earlier, when history has no record, and tradition

dares not peer into the gloom of that intense past, even from until now, ideas

after ideas have marched out from her, but every word has been spoken with a

blessing behind it and peace before it. We, of all nations of the world, have

never been a conquering race, and that blessing is on our head, and therefore we

live....!"

 

Swami Vivekananda, Great Indian Philosopher

 

 

"If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of

its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life,

and has found solutions, I should point to India"

 

Max Mueller

 

"India was the mother of our race and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages.

She was the mother of our philosophy, mother through the Arabs, of much of our

mathematics, mother through Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity,

mother through village communities of self-government and democracy. Mother

India is in many ways the mother of us all."

 

Will Durant

 

"In India, I found a race of mortals living upon the Earth, but not adhering to

it, inhabiting cities, but not being fixed to them, possessing everything, but

possessed by nothing"

 

Apollonius Tyanaeus quotes (Neo-Pythagorean)

 

There has been no more revolutionary contribution than the one which the Hindus

(Indians) made when they invented zero.

~~~ Lancelot Hogben (English mathematician)

 

India – The land of Vedas, the remarkable works contain not only religious ideas

for a perfect life, but also facts which science has proved true. Electricity,

radium, electronics, airship, all were known to the seers who founded the Vedas.

~~~ Wheeler Wilcox (American poet)

 

After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of Quantum

Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense.

~~~ W. Heisenberg (German Physicist)

 

Our present knowledge of the nervous system fits in so accurately with the

internal description of the human body given in the Vedas (5000 years ago). Then

the question arises whether the Vedas are really religious books or books on

anatomy of the nervous system and medicine.

~~~ Rele (Jewish writer)

 

The Indian way of life provides the vision of the natural, real way of life. We

veil ourselves with unnatural masks. On the face of India are the tender

expressions which carry the mark of the Creator's hand.

~~~ George Bernard Shaw (Irish playwrite)

 

You'd have to be brain dead to live in India and not be affected by Hinduism.

It's not like Christianity in America, where you feel it only on Sunday mornings

… if you go to church at all. Hinduism is an on-going daily procedure. You live

it, you breathe it.”

“Hinduism has a playful aspect which I've not experienced in any other religion.

Its not so righteous or sober as is Christianity, nor is it puritanical. That's

one of the reasons I enjoy India. I wake up in the morning, and I'm very

content.

~~~ Marcus Leatherdale (Canadian photographer)

 

To the philosophers of India, however, Relativity is no new discovery, just as

the concept of light years is no matter for astonishment to people used to

thinking of time in millions of kalpas, (A kalpa is about 4,320,000 years). The

fact that the wise men of India have not been concerned with technological

applications of this knowledge arises from the circumstance that technology is

but one of innumerable ways of applying it.

~~~ Alan Watts (English philosopher)

 

Perhaps in return for conquest, arrogance and spoliation, India will teach us

the tolerance and gentleness of the mature mind, the quiet content of the

unacquisitive soul, the calm of the understanding spirit, and a unifying, a

pacifying love for all living things.

 

~~ Will Durant (American philosopher)

 

It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to us such

unquestionable gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and

chess, and above all our numerals and our decimal system. But these are not the

essence of her spirit; they are trifles compared to what we may learn from her

in the future.

~~~ Will Durant (American philosopher)

 

The motion of the stars calculated by the Hindus before some 4500 years vary not

even a single minute from the tables of Cassine and Meyer (used in the 19-th

century). The Indian tables give the same annual variation of the moon as the

discovered by Tycho Brahe - a variation unknown to the school of Alexandria and

also to the Arabs who followed the calculations of the school... "The Hindu

systems of astronomy are by far the oldest and that from which the Egyptians,

Greek, Romans and - even the Jews derived from the Hindus their knowledge.

~~~Jean Sylvain Bailly (French astronomer)

 

India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she

lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples. And that

which must seek now to awake is not anglicised oriental people, docile pupil of

the West and doomed to repeat the cycle of the occident's success and failure,

but still the ancient immemorable Shakti recovering her deepest self, lifting

her head higher towards the supreme source of light and strength and turning to

discover the complete meaning and a vaster form of her Dharma.

 

~~~Shri Aurovindo (Indian philosopher)