GO NOT TO THE TEMPLE
RABINDRANATH TAGORE
Go not to the temple to put flowers upon the feet of God,
First fill your own house with the Fragrance of love...
Go not to the temple to light candles before the altar of God,
First remove the darkness of sin from your heart...
Go not to the temple to bow down your head in prayer,
First learn to bow in humility before your fellowmen...
Go not to the temple to pray on bended knees,
First bend down to lift someone who is down-trodden...
Go not to the temple to ask for forgiveness for your sins,
First forgive from your heart those who have sinned against you.
Comments
The poem
gladdened me as it resonates my thoughts on ritualism since childhood. Theme of popular movies like OMG & PK has the same message.
Tagore’s views
on education— “He found his outside formal schooling to be inferior and boring
and, after a brief exposure to several schools, he refused to attend school.
The only degrees he ever received were honorary ones bestowed late in life”.
To brag I have
a degree—Inter Sc (NDA). But that degree
would have rendered me ineligible for white-collar job!!
MEANINGFUL
PERSPECTIVES
Death asked Life: Why does everyone love you and hate
me.
Life replied : Because I am a
beautiful Lie and you are a painful Truth
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Loneliness is not lack of
company, it is lack of purpose
Never search your happiness
in others, it will make you alone, search it in yourself you will feel happy
even when you are alone.
To make right choices in
life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to
experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence
you hear the truth and know the solutions.
Let your past make you better and not bitter
Intriguing Co-incidence
a)
Temple is a 6 letter word
b)
Church is a 6 letter word
c)
Mosque is a 6 letter word
d)
Geeta is a 5 letter word
e)
Bible is a 5 letter word
f)
Quran is a 5 letter word
Rhetorics
1) Always welcome the problems; because problems give you dual advice—First,
you know how to solve it and Second, you know how to avoid it in future
2) Entire water in the ocean can never sink a ship unless it gets
inside. All the pressures of life can never hurt you unless you
let them in
3) Never hold your head high with pride or ego; even the winner of a
gold medal gets his medal only when he bows his head
4) World always say – Find good people and leave bad ones. But I say,
find the good in people and ignore the bad in them, because No one is born
perfect
5) We are very good Lawyers for our mistakes, but very good
Judges of other’s mistakes
6) None can destroy iron, but its own rust can! Likewise, none
can destroy a person, but his own mindset can.
7) Ups and downs in life are very important to keep us going, because
a straight line even in an E.C.G. means we are not alive.
8) Consequences of How One
Interacts. Anger
distances hearts. To cover that distance angry people shout at each other. Angrier
they are higher is the decibel level. When
in love, we talk softly as distance is
almost non-existent. Unrestrained arguments
may cause irreconcilable distance. Then one may not find the path to return!!
9) Joys of Living. Mobile has taught us three things .... Whatever
makes us happy -- save it.....Whatever makes others happy -- forward
it.....Whatever will make no one happy -- Delete it....
PROCESS OF
EMPOWERMENT
LEARN FROM GIRAFFE
Baby
giraffes never go to school. But they learn a very important lesson rather
early in life. A lesson that all of us would do well to remember. The birth of
a baby giraffe is quite an earth-shaking event. The baby falls from its
mother's womb, some eight feet above the ground. It shrivels up and lies still,
too weak to move. The mother giraffe lovingly lowers her neck to smooch the
baby giraffe.
And
then something unbelievable happens. She lifts her long leg and kicks the baby
giraffe, sending it flying up in the air and tumbling down on the ground. As
the baby lies curled up, the mother kicks the baby again and again until the
baby giraffe, still trembling and tired, pushes its limbs and for the first
time learns to stand on its feet. Happy to see the baby standing on its own
feet, the mother giraffe comes over and gives it yet another kick. The baby
giraffe falls one more time, but now quickly recovers and stands up.
Mama
Giraffe is delighted. She knows that her baby has learnt an important lesson: Never
mind how hard you fall, always remember to pick yourself up and get back on
your feet. Mother giraffe knows lions and leopards relish
giraffe meat. Unless the baby quickly learns to stand and run with the pack it
will have no chance of survival.
Most
of us give up when we fail or when chips are down. We too need to self-kick
ourselves out of our comfort zone and be
empowered before adulthood.
Or
else survival amongst wolves prowling concrete jungles would be even more difficult!!
