Sacred Space

noreply@blogger.com (J R) — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 01:53:00 +0000

noreply@blogger.com (J R) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:18:00 +0000

How can my Muse want subject to invent,
While thou dost breathe, that pour'st into my verse
Thine own sweet argument?
... Be thou the tenth Muse, ten times more in worth
Than those old nine which rhymers invocate.

- Shakespeare's Sonnet 38, Invoking the Tenth Muse

noreply@blogger.com (J R) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:17:00 +0000

What is the limit to the dimension of the soul?
Every soul has the capacity to expand up to the entire universe,
just as the light of a lamp has the property to expand or contract...

- FAQs on Jainism, JainUniversity.org

noreply@blogger.com (J R) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:15:00 +0000

The problem with detecting the fifth dimension (or the sixth, seventh, and so on) is that our bodies are built to measure only the three old-fashioned spatial dimensions, plus time as a fourth dimension... but the possibility of discovery of many more dimensions is tantalising, even probable, some time in the distant future.

- Lisa Randall, physicist (attributed)

noreply@blogger.com (J R) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:14:00 +0000

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically.
We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly.
We grow partially. We are relative.
We are mature in one realm, childish in another.
The past, present and future mingle and pull us backward, or fix us in the present.
We are made up of cells, constellations.

- Ananis Nin

noreply@blogger.com (J R) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:12:00 +0000

The truth is, i am, therefore i think.
We exist first and then express ourselves as bodies in physical dimension.

- Osho

noreply@blogger.com (J R) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:10:00 +0000

There is but one God;
His name is Truth;
He is the Creator;
He fears none nor does He hate anyone.
He is in the image of the Eternal.
He is beyond birth and death;
He is self-existent.
He can be attained by the Guru's grace.

- Mool Mantra

noreply@blogger.com (J R) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:08:00 +0000

Three things are there in the vessel: Truth, contentment and intellect. The ambrosial Name of God is added to it, The Name that is everybody's sustenance. He who absorbs and enjoys it Shall be saved. One must not abandon this gift, It should ever remain dear to one's heart. The dark ocean of the world Can be crossed by clinging to His feet. Nanak, it is He who is everywhere. I can't measure Your grace; You've made me worthy of You. I am full of blemishes; I have no virtue, You have been compassionate. Compassionate You have been and kind, Thus I met the True Guru. Nanak, I live on the Name alone, It pleases my heart and soul.

- Epilogue in Mundawani

noreply@blogger.com (J R) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:06:00 +0000

As ordained by the Lord Eternal

A new way of life is evolved.

All the Sikhs are asked to accept the Holy Granth as the Guru.

Guru Granth should be accepted As the living Guru.

Those who wish to meet God Will find Him in the word.

- Guru Gobind Singh

noreply@blogger.com (J R) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:02:00 +0000

Humankind has not woven the web of life.

We are but one thread within it.

Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.

All things are bound together. All things connect.

- Chief Seattle

noreply@blogger.com (J R) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:00:00 +0000

In the solitary regions

Of green valleys

And the confluence of the rivers,

The sages obtain

Divine Intuition.

- Rig Veda

noreply@blogger.com (J R) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:59:00 +0000

The Earth bears all-sustaining, treasure-bearing places, Gold-breasted, home of all moving life. The earth bears the sacred universal fire... The Earth contains rivers common to all Moving on all sides, flowing day and night. May she pour on us riches in any forms And endow us with lustre.

- Atharva Veda

noreply@blogger.com (J R) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:58:00 +0000

The festival of Kharchi Puja celebrates the 14 deities the Chaturdashi devtas that are believed to have protected the people from harm.Both tribals and non-tribals as well as people from all communities participate in the celebrations at Puran Agartala. The week-long celebration is held in the temple premises and is joined by thousands of people. The word kharchi could be a corruption of the word khya which means Earth. The festival is therefore a celebration of Mother Earth who sustains all life with her many resources.

- Fairs & festivals of Tripura

noreply@blogger.com (J R) — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 03:21:00 +0000

Straighten out yourself
And get your mind on track
Dust off your butt
And get your self-respect back
You've known me long enough
To know that i don't play
Take it like you want it
But you got to keep the faith.

- Keep the Faith

noreply@blogger.com (J R) — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 03:20:00 +0000

I'm starting with the man in the mirror
I'm asking him to change his ways
And no message could have been any clearer
If you wanna make the world a better place
Take a look at yourself, and then make a change.

- Man in the Mirror

noreply@blogger.com (J R) — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 03:18:00 +0000

What about sunrise
What about rain
What about all the things
That you said we were to gain...
What about killing fields
Is there a time
What about all the things
That you said was yours and mine...
Did you ever stop to notice
All the blood we've shed before
Did you ever stop to notice
The crying Earth the weeping shores?

- Earth Song

noreply@blogger.com (J R) — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:17:00 +0000

The Old Testament gives some impressive descriptions in which God alone or his angels fly straight down from Heaven, making a tremendous noise and issuing clouds of smoke.

- Erich von Daniken

noreply@blogger.com (J R) — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:15:00 +0000

The battlefield at Kurukshetra is the human mind. It is always in conflict, faced with the freedom to choose without wisdom. The owner of the chariot is the ego or jivatma. The body is the chariot, a vehicle by means of which a life of dharma or ethical living may be achieved. The intellect is the charioteer (Krishna), and with such a person steering the course, success in any endeavour is assured. The five horses are the five sense organs. The road ahead is littered with sense objects that the mind runs after. The mind is the reins, and when it is calm and collected, it can control and keep the sense organs from running wild and taking wrong paths...

- Renu S Malhotra

noreply@blogger.com (J R) — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:12:00 +0000

The chariot of Lord Jagannath of Puri is known as Nandighosha, also known as Garudwaja and Kapidwaja. The charioteer is called Dahuka. The flag is referred to as the Trailokyamohini. The Lord Jagannath Rath Yatra commenced on 24th of June'09 at Puri.

- News report

noreply@blogger.com (J R) — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:44:00 +0000

Some people change their ways when they see the light; others when they feel the heat.

- Caroline Schroeder

noreply@blogger.com (J R) — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:42:00 +0000

The contrary view in the Upanishads combined the material and spiritual worlds more closely. Instead of turning from materiality, this view claimed that one helped oneself understand the unity of the universe by gaining knowledge about materiality, including the origins of the universe. One writer of this persuasion speculated that the world had begun as water, that the earth is water solidified, that every solid is basically water and that water and God are one. Another contributor to the Upanishads saw reality and God as fire.

- Frank E Smitha

noreply@blogger.com (J R) — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:39:00 +0000

I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into enery even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

- M K Gandhi

noreply@blogger.com (J R) — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:38:00 +0000

Just as a candle cannot burn without a fire, men cannot live without a spiritual inspiration.

- The Buddha

noreply@blogger.com (J R) — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:36:00 +0000

It is with our passions as it is with fire and water; they are good servants, but bad masters.

- Aesop's Fables

noreply@blogger.com (J R) — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:11:00 +0000

Always worship 'The Sun'(our energy source) sitting at the centre of his galaxy on Lotus, wearing Keyoor, Makarkundal crown and holding conch, chakra and having glittering golden body... O, radiant Sun rising in the sky, please destroy the disease in my heart as well as diseases of my external body. Let inner and outer diseases of my body be destroyed by brilliantly shining Sun - the son of Aditi... Those who perform Surya Namskars daily, do not face poverty in life ( this actually relates to richness of health, not financial matters), one does not face early death or suffer from diseases. Drink the water kept before the Sun...

- Vedic hymns