जं छं तं न वत्तव्वं
Speak not the secret
A Spring Festival
One day, when Spring, the abode of love, had come, the Lord went to a garden to please his retinue. There in a bower of flowers, the Master of the World, adorned with ornaments of flowers, sat like Spring personified. The Laksmi of Spring, as it were, gave welcome to the Lord of the World by humming bees intoxicated by the juice of blossoming mango-trees. An overture, as it were, being performed by cuckoos singing the fifth note, the wind from Malaya, the leader of the dance, showed the dance of the creepers. Continue reading “A Spring Festival” »
Neither love, nor hate
सव्वं जगं तु समयाणुपेही,
पियमप्पियं कस्स वि नो करेज्जा
पियमप्पियं कस्स वि नो करेज्जा
One who sees the entire world with equanimity, he neither favors nor disfavors anyone
Mērī tuṁ mērī tuṁ kānhī ḍarēra
Mērī tuṁ mērī tuṁ kānhī ḍarēra, mērī
Kahē cētana samatā suni ākhara,
aura daiḍha dina jūṭha larērī.
…Mērī.1
Doubt not
वितिगिच्छासमावेणं अप्पाणेणं
नो लहइ समाहिं
नो लहइ समाहिं
Doubtful can never get liberated
Do not talk ill behind someone’s back
पिट्ठिमंसं न खाएज्जा
One should not talk ill of others in their absence
Maharshi and restraint
अणुए नावणए महेसी,
न यावि पूयं, गरिहं च संजए
न यावि पूयं, गरिहं च संजए
One who does not get conceited even when venerated and does not feel low when censured; he is restraint, maharshi
Association with the sadhu
कुज्जा साहूहिं संथवं
Contacts must be maintained with the Sadhus
The Gods – Their Cars – Their Bells their Family – Part 2
Surrounded on all sides by ten thousand Samanikas, by the fourfold body guards, by the Trayastrinsas, the three assemblies, the four Lokapalas, the seven great armies and the seven generals, the Indra of Arana and Acyuta, pure, began to bathe the Blessed One. After putting on his upper garment, possessing unselfish devotion, Acyuta took a double handful of flowers of the blooming coral-tree, etc. After perfuming it with fragrant dense smoke from incense, he threw the double handful of flowers before the Lord of the Three Worlds. Continue reading “The Gods – Their Cars – Their Bells their Family – Part 2” »
