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from unreal to real

Ok2GoOk2Go Posts: 102
edited April 2004 in Poetry, Prose, Music & Art
Om
Asato Maa Sadgamaya
Tamaso Maa Jyotir Gamaya
Mrityor Maa Amrtam Gamaya
Shaantih Shaantih Shaantih
Om
"and then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl sitting on her own in a small cafe in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong in the world all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right and no one had to get nailed to anything. Sadly, before she could get to a phone to tell anyone about it, a terrible stupid catastrophe occurred, and the idea was lost forever."

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
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  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Posts: 12,223
    manah-prasadah saumyatvam
    maunam atma-vinigrahah
    bhava-samsuddhir ity etat
    tapo manasam ucyate

    ("And satisfaction, simplicity, gravity, self-containment and purification of one's existence are the austerities of the mind.")

    From the Bhagavad-Gita, Chapter Seventeen, Verse Sixteen.

    :)
  • Ok2GoOk2Go Posts: 102
    i love cooked carrots with a little sugar on top. thanks for adding to the mantra of my afternoon mind.

    here is the translation of the above

    "O Lord please lead me from the unreal to the real.
    Lead me from darkness to light (ignorance to knowledge0
    Lead me from death to immortality
    May there be peace, peace and perfect peace."

    from Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, 1st Adhyaya, 3rd Brahmana, 28th Mantra.
    "and then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl sitting on her own in a small cafe in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong in the world all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right and no one had to get nailed to anything. Sadly, before she could get to a phone to tell anyone about it, a terrible stupid catastrophe occurred, and the idea was lost forever."

    Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Posts: 12,223
    Eliot's "The Waste Land", a poem that begins with the line "April is the cruellest month" and speaks of the "Unreal city", finds a sense of spiritual hope and calm. And its final line, a line expressing a notion of peace, understanding and a return to reality through spiritual self-awareness, is indeed our quoted line from the Upanishads:

    Shaantih Shaantih Shaantih

    :)

    From unreal, to the real.
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