Advantage of speaking the truth

 

I received this guru gyan on Guruvaar today:

The greatest advantage of speaking the truth is that you don't have to remember what you said.

The other advantage, I mused, is that the strategy works fine even if one has Alzheimer's.

You will Suffer!

 

Worn out pages:

This is what my English Teacher, Mr Shiben Kachru, a Kashmiri Pundit, wrote in my diary:

1. If you devote yourself to literature and Art you will surely make a mark.

2. If anything impedes ones progress it is self consciousness. Yo are self conscious. Shun it (shed it).

You are a good sensitive kid. You will suffer.

My English teacher wrote about my future sufferings. Little did I know, how much he and his family must have suffered.

Drown the oceans, far and nigh!

 

Sometimes I weigh the oceans,

Sometimes I behold the sky.

Sometimes I wonder,

With a sigh and cry:

If let out, off my heart,

Will love colour my sky?

My love, gush out of there,

Drown the oceans, far and nigh!

Aren't you happy downstream?

 

Why do you go up the stream,

And sneak into another dream?

Upstream is a bit hard,

Roughs, shingles, and shards.

Aren't you happy in your dream?

Aren't you happy downstream?

If I knew

 

Dear heart,

What happened to you?

I just had a few.

I wouldn't have,

If I knew.

विद्यां ददाति विनयं

 

विद्यां ददाति विनयं,

विनयाद् याति पात्रताम् ।

पात्रत्वात् धनमाप्नोति,

धनात् धर्मं ततः सुखम् ॥

Knowledge brings humility;

from humility comes worthiness;

with worthiness one attains wealth;

with wealth one is able to perform one's duties

in a better way;

and in performing one's duties

one attains happiness.

In the end - as in the beginning - the fount of all happiness is Vidya.

*vidya: knowledge

Just give me plain sight

 

Give me just plain sight,

O Lord.

That I see things plainly.

Let the historians keep

The hindsight,

May You keep

The foresight.