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22 hours ago•••
GM always be prepared for a dip. don't get distracted. stay on the mission. Pura Vida 💜. cheap sats on Tuesday morning is a weekend without worries 🧡🤏 #Dip #Dipje 🫂
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meraki (μεράκι) /meh-RAH-kee/ n.
A modern Greek word describing the soul, creativity, or love put into something; the essence of yourself that you infuse into any activity or pursuit.
For example, it describes the feeling when a song overtakes you emotionally and moves you to dance, sing, or express yourself fully. It represents doing anything with passion, from the heart, and with absolute devotion—whether it's work, art, cooking, or any other activity.
"When you do things from your soul, you feel a river of joy moving in you."
— Rumi
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41 hours ago•••
When the government is muddled The people are simple; When the government is alert The people are cunning.
It is on disaster that good fortune perches; It is beneath good fortune that disaster crouches.
Who knows the limit? Does not the straightforward exist? The straighforward changes again into the crafty, and the good changes again into the monstrous. Indeed, it is long since the people were perplexed.
Therefore the sage is square-edged but does not scrape, Has corners but does not jab, Extends himself but not at the expense of others, Shines but does not dazzle.
— #Tao Te Ching: Ch 58 (D.C. Lau translation)
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45 hours ago•••
GM🧡 and PV💜 Happy Monday 🌞☝️💚⏰️ Keep building and Only Stack Sats ⚡️ #Btc
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शुभरात्री #Nostr. Morning comes early, and quality sleep is important.
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It has been said: Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
— Ava ॐ
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Picked up the hardcopy/download hybrid version of this definitive, comprehensive Sanskrit course by American Sanskrit Institute last night. https://www.americansanskrit.com/shop/sanskrit-by-download-text-in-binder-sanskrit-atlas-1-atlas-course-dlhard-copy-text-ship-sbycd-text-in-binder-large-atlas-atlas-course-text
I chose the hybrid version of "Noun Declensions" as my included Atlas course: https://www.americansanskrit.com/shop/noun-declensions-atlas-course-downloadable
"Noun Declensions — Nouns are the most common forms in the Sanskrit language. This program includes 360 nouns in 12 declensions, each in all 8 cases, fully printed out, with 12 CDs (Downloads). This is an excellent supplement to Sanskrit by CD (Download Interactive). By providing additional practice of forms, increasing vocabulary and naturally increasing ease and speed in reading Devanagari script."
...and got a hardcover copy of the esteemed and most comprehensive "A Sanskrit-English Dictionary" by Sir Monier Monier-Williams (with well over 180,000 words). https://www.americansanskrit.com/shop/a-sanskrit-english-dictionary
Now, I can let go of my cassette rips and scanned PDFs, and dive deeper into these courses with high quality audio and hard copies of the written reference materials. I am quite looking forward to this.
जय हो (Jai Ho!) Let there be victory!
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2 days ago•••
Govern the state by being straightforward; Wage war by being crafty; But win the empire by not being meddlesome.
How do I know that it is like that? By means of this.
The more taboos there are in the empire The poorer the people; The more sharpened tools the people have The more benighted the state; The more skills the people have The further novelties multiply; The better known the laws and edicts The more thieves and robbers there are.
Hence the sage says, I take no action and the people are transformed of themselves; I prefer stillness and the people are rectified of themselves; I am not meddlesome and the people prosper of themselves; I am free from desire and the people of themselves become simple like the uncarved block.
— #Tao Te Ching: Ch 57 (D.C. Lau translation)
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3 days ago•••
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I have heard:
One night the poet, Awhadi of Kerman, a very great Muslim poet, was sitting on his porch bent over a vessel. Shams e-Tabrizi, a great Sufı mystic, happened to pass by.
Shams e-Tabrizi looked at the poet, at what he was doing. He asked the poet, "What are you doing?"
The poet said, "Contemplating the moon in a bowl of water."
Shams e-Tabrizi started laughing, with an uproarious laughter, a mad laughter. The poet started feeling uncomfortable; a crowd gathered. And the poet said, "What is the matter? Why are you laughing so much? Why are you ridiculing me?"
Shams e-Tabrizi said, "Unless you have broken your neck, why don't you look directly at the moon in the sky?"
The moon is there, the full moon is there, and this poet was sitting with a bowl of water and looking into the bowl of water at the reflection of the moon!
Seeking truth in scriptures, seeking truth in philosophies, is looking at the reflection. If you ask somebody else how you should live your life you are asking for misguidance, because that man can only talk about his own life. And never, never, are two lives the same. Whatsoever he can say or impart to you will be about his own life — and that too only if he has lived. He may have asked somebody else, he may have followed somebody else, he may have been an imitator himself; then it is a reflection of a reflection. And centuries pass and people go on reflecting the reflection of the reflection of the reflection — and the real moon is always there in the sky waiting for you.
It is your moon, it is your sky, look directly. Be immediate about it. Why borrow my eyes or anybody else's eyes? You have been given eyes, beautiful eyes to see, and to see directly. Why borrow understanding from anybody? Remember, it may be an understanding to me, but the moment you borrow it, it becomes knowledge to you — it is no longer understanding.
Understanding is only that which has been experienced by the person himself. It may be understanding for me, if I have looked at the moon, but the moment I say it to you it becomes knowledge, it is no longer understanding. Then it is just verbal, then it is just linguistic. And language is a lie.
— Osho (The Art of Dying: Talks on Hassidism, Ch 1)
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3 days ago•••
Powerful Lakshmi Mantra For Money, Protection, Happiness (LISTEN TO IT 5 - 7 AM DAILY) 👀🔊🙏🏻
Audio only:
There are 2 Devi mantras in this video:
Karagre Vasate Lakshmi
कराग्रे वसते लक्ष्मीः करमध्ये सरस्वती करमूले तु गोविन्दः प्रभाते करदर्शनम् ॥
Karagre Vasate Lakshmi, Karamadhye Saraswati, Karamoole Tu Govinda, Prabhaate Karadarshanam.
Meaning: I focus on my fingers (Kara: hand; Agra: top/tip) and I visualize the abundant blessings of Goddess Lakshmi, who dwells there.
I focus on the center of my palms (Kara: hand, Madhya: middle) and I visualize the abundant blessings of Goddess Saraswati, who dwells there.
At the base of my hand (Kara: hand, Moola: bottom), I visualize the infinite blessings of Lord Vishnu, who dwells there.
And so, I focus on my hands every morning and seek divine manifestations.
"The Karagre Vasate Lakshmi mantra is a shloka originally from the Vishnu Purana. It is one of the most practiced mantras, chanted every day by the old and young alike.
Most practitioners of mantra meditation do not start their day without chanting or listening to this mantra early in the morning. For this mantra, as soon as you wake up from sleep, focus on the palms of the hands.
Visualize and invoke the supreme power in the form of Goddess Lakshmi, Goddess Saraswati, and Vishnu.
Goddess Lakshmi is the provider of wealth. Goddess Saraswati is the bestower of wisdom. And Lord Vishnu, the bestower of prosperity.
Goddess Lakshmi, Goddess Saraswati, and God Govinda (Lord Vishnu) represent the three stages of the Divine manifestation. Focusing on the palms while visualizing with this mantra is said to be the way to start off the day."
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Matru Rupena
या देवी सर्वभूतेषु मातृरूपेण संस्थिता ॥ नमस्तस्यै नमस्तस्यै नमस्तस्यै नमो नमः ॥
Yaa Devi Sarva Bhuteshu, Maatru Roopena Sansthita. Namas Tasyai Namas Tasyai, Namas Tasyai Namo Namah.
Meaning: Oh, omnipresent Goddess Durga who has nurtured all beings in the form of a motherly bow to you.
Namas Tasyai Namas Tasyai Namastasye Namo Namah.
Meaning: I praise you, I revere you, again and again.
"The Ya Devi Sarva Bhuteshu mantra is part of Devistuti, or salutations to Goddess Durga. The mantra is a liberating composition praising Maa Durga.
The mantra thanks the omnipresent consciousness for the existence of life.
It invokes Durga Maa and asks for her blessings to lead a positive life without any obstacles."
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3 days ago•••
One is a relative, the other stranger, say the small minded. The entire world is a family.
अयं निजः परो वेति गणना लघुचेतसाम्। उदारचरितानां तु वसुधैव कुटुम्बकम्॥
ayaṃ nijaḥ paro veti gaṇanā laghucetasām udāracaritānāṃ tu vasudhaiva kuṭumbakam
— Maha Upanishad VI.71–73
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Here I stand and if I shut my eyes, and try to conceive my existence, "I," "I," "I," what is the idea before me? The idea of a body? Am I, then, nothing but a combination of material substances? The Vedas declare, "No." I am a spirit living in a body. I am not the body. The body will die, but I shall not die. Here am I in this body; it will fall, but I shall go on living.
— Swami Vivekananda (At the World's Parliament of Religions in Chicago on September 11, 1893)
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