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Friday, November 30, 2012
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Sunday, November 25, 2012
Saturday, November 17, 2012
Hope
Obama's reelection victory speech 2012
"I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting."
"I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting."
Friday, November 16, 2012
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Invocation to Patanjali
yogena cittasya padenaa vacam
To purify the mind, the consciousness (citta), Patanjali gave the science of yoga (yogena) to us. To purify our use of words (pada) and speech (vaca), he gave commentary on grammar to us, so that our use of words and way of speaking is clarified, distinct and pure.
malam sarirasya ca vaidyakena
To remove the impurities (malam) of the body (sairira), he gave us the science of medicine (vaidyakena).
yopakarottam pravaram muninam
Let me go near the one who has given these things to us.
patanjalim pranjalir anato'smi
Let me bow down (anato'smi) my head with my folded hands (pranjalir) to Lord Patanjali.
[In order to meditate on the Patanjali's work we are then given his form]
aahu purusakaram
From the hand up to the head he has the shape (karam) of a human (purusa).
sankha cakarasi dharinam
In his hand he is holding the conch (sankha) and the dosc (cakra).
sahasra sirasam svetam
On top of his head (sirsam) [because he is the incarnation of Adishesha, the greatest cobra] he has a thousand (sahasra) bright/white (svetam) hoods of the cobra.
pranamami patanjalim
I bow down to that Patanjali.
listen
commentary 1
commentary 2
To purify the mind, the consciousness (citta), Patanjali gave the science of yoga (yogena) to us. To purify our use of words (pada) and speech (vaca), he gave commentary on grammar to us, so that our use of words and way of speaking is clarified, distinct and pure.
malam sarirasya ca vaidyakena
To remove the impurities (malam) of the body (sairira), he gave us the science of medicine (vaidyakena).
yopakarottam pravaram muninam
Let me go near the one who has given these things to us.
patanjalim pranjalir anato'smi
Let me bow down (anato'smi) my head with my folded hands (pranjalir) to Lord Patanjali.
[In order to meditate on the Patanjali's work we are then given his form]
aahu purusakaram
From the hand up to the head he has the shape (karam) of a human (purusa).
sankha cakarasi dharinam
In his hand he is holding the conch (sankha) and the dosc (cakra).
sahasra sirasam svetam
On top of his head (sirsam) [because he is the incarnation of Adishesha, the greatest cobra] he has a thousand (sahasra) bright/white (svetam) hoods of the cobra.
pranamami patanjalim
I bow down to that Patanjali.
listen
commentary 1
commentary 2
just between you & me
cm . . . as you're my only follower and I am about to embark on an attempt at something, I know not what exactly, please excuse the pastiche of randomness that I hope to lay before your solitary eyes.
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