Words have Personality - Da, Da, Da -thus spake the Thunder!

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Ganga was sunken, and the limp leaves

Waited for rain, while the black clouds

Gathered far distant, over Himavant.

The jungle crouched, humped in silence.

Then spoke the thunder

D A

 

Datta: what have we given?

My friend, blood shaking my heart

The awful daring of a moment's surrender

Which an age of prudence can never retract

By this, and this only, we have existed 405

Which is not to be found in our obituaries

Or in memories draped by the beneficent spider

Or under seals broken by the lean solicitor

In our empty rooms

 

D A

Dayadhvam: I have heard the key

Turn in the door once and turn once only

We think of the key, each in his prison

Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison

Only at nightfall, aetherial rumours

Revive for a moment a broken Coriolanus

 

D A

Damyata: The boat responded

Gaily, to the hand expert with sail and oar

The sea was calm, your heart would have responded 420

Gaily, when invited, beating obedient

To controlling hands

 

I sat upon the shore

Fishing, with the arid plain behind me

Shall I at least set my lands in order?

 

London Bridge is falling down falling down falling down

 

Poi s'ascose nel foco che gli affina

Quando fiam ceu chelidon—O swallow swallow

Le Prince d'Aquitaine à la tour abolie

These fragments I have shored against my ruins

Why then Ile fit you. Hieronymo's mad againe.

Datta. Dayadhvam. Damyata.

 

Shantih shantih shantih

 

T.S.Eliot - the Waste Land

 

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Yes, chitta-ji -

 

Words have PersonalitY.

 

AND THE MOST MISUNDERSTOOD WORD IN HINDUISM IS * mAyA*

 

and whether the world is real or unreal depends on how one

understands the 'power' of mAyA ...

 

AND via the heart or via the intellect.

 

Good point.

 

We will wait for you to Unveil the magic power of mAYa in your

subsequent postings.

 

Meanwhile, There is no need to live in a world of 'Doom and Gloom'

 

A life affirming prayer goes like this ...

>From Joy I have come. In Joy I live, move, and have my being. And in

that sacred Joy I will melt again.

 

( i don't know if this is from Taitriya upanishads - Sunderji can

confirm this. thank you Sunderji for all the wonderful 'Aum' links.

WE can always count on you. )

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advaitin, "adi_shakthi16"

<adi_shakthi16> wrote:

> From Joy I have come. In Joy I live, move, and have my being. And

in

> that sacred Joy I will melt again.

>

> ( i don't know if this is from Taitriya upanishads -

 

Namaste,

 

 

An excellent summary is at URL:

 

 

http://www.swami-krishnananda.org/aitt/ait_4a.html

 

The Essence of The Aitareya and Taittiriya Upanishads

by

Swami Krishnananda

IV

ANANDA-MIMAMSA

(Continued)

 

........."Varuna is supposed to have taught his son Bhrigu the

knowledge of the Atman. Bhrigu approached his father and said to

him: "Master, Father, Sir, teach me Brahman." The father gave the

following definition of Brahman and asked him to contemplate on it:

Yato va imani bhutani jayante; Yena jatani jivanti; Yat

prayantyabhisamvisanti; Tad vijijnasasva; Tat Brahma. "That from

which everything comes, or rather that from which everything has

come, that in which everything abides, and that to which everything

must return one day, - that is Brahman or the Absolute."

This existence itself is happiness. `Raso vai sah.' It is called

Rasa, the quintessence of things.

 

Sa ya evam vid' He knows who knows this in actual experience and

realisation by deep meditation. `Etam Annamayam Atmanam

Upasankramya, Etam Pranamayam Atmanam Upasankramya, Etam Manomayam

Atmanam Upasankramya, Etam Vijnanamayam Atmanam Upasankramya, Etam

Anandamayam Atmanam Upasankramya', Etat sama gayanaste'. He is in

the universal bliss and ecstasy of exclamation and cannot find words

to explain what he feels at that time. It is as if the whole ocean

has entered him and is inundating him from all sides, and he has

become one with the ocean, - not the ocean of waters but the ocean

of Happiness. This is the great conclusion to the immense

glorification and satisfaction of all of us. This is what the

Upanishad presents before us as the great legacy of our culture, to

contemplate which we have to find adequate time every day......."

 

 

Regards,

 

Sunder