Jai Durga!

[Guest guest]

Namaste,

 

On Wednesday, October 17, 2001 begins the nine-day worship

of Goddess Durga.

 

May Humanity invoke Her blessings to realise the following:

 

 

There is no deed too hard for soul-force

To accomplish; the soul-force is power

Of love divine. To say that numbers

Of weapons can do what soul-force cannot

Is but the folly of reliance

On the body vile.

 

What to inward sight is peace

Appears as power to outward sight.

For those who truly know, the two

Are one and the same.

 

from the Garland of Guru's Sayings [Guru Vachaka Kovai]

original in Tamil by Muruganar;

tr. from Tamil by Prof. K. Swaminathan [1990]

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from Gitanjali [1913]

by Rabindranath Tagore

 

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;

Where knowledge is free;

Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow

domestic walls;

Where words come out from the depth of truth;

Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection:

Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary

desert sand of dead habit;

Where the mind is led forward by Thee into ever-widening thought and

action;

Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.

 

 

Regards,