I had written this last year as a New Year's Post. Its still relevant. However, I am attaching a sanskrit prayer we all learnt at school, with english translation.
It was a very easy read. I first read it during my several visits to Barnes and Nobles. Later I bought a used book, and shared it with friends.
Eastern philosophy chewed down, and regurgitated. Yet, when we are in the place of ‘learning’ in the state of learning....everything becomes a clue. These words still ring true. I hope, I hope, I can try to live by these, this coming year. As I hope you will consider them for at least a few days.
One of the ways of doing that is to set an alarm every hour. And take one minute. Just one minute of meditation time and focus on this thought.
I am this moment. This moment and I are one. That was the major focus of 'Peaceful Warrior'---a very basic eastern thought---focusing on stillness.
"Where are you?”
"Here.”
"What time is it?”
"Now”
"What are You?”
This Moment.
Peaceful Warrior--by Dan Millman
Here is the sanskrit prayer. Not a prayer for anything material, instead for 'light, knowledge, and truth' which makes us immortal. In Indian thought, there is no such thing as a 'sin' --but ignorance, absence of knowledge is sin. This prayer is so that the divine would guide our minds towards light, so that all our actions are taken in the knowledge, that there is only one soul on this planet, manifested in seven billion or more beings and (un)-manifest in all the powers that we do not see!!
asto ma sadgamaya
tamaso ma jyotirgamaya
mrtyorma amrtram gamaya
Lead me from the asat to the sat
Lead me from darkness to light
Lead me from death to immortality
(Brhadaranyaka Upanishad — I.iii.28)
