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Do not swerve
न जातु कामान्न भयान्न लोभाद् ।
धर्मं त्यजेज्जीवितस्यापि हेतोः ॥Not for desire, not for fear, not for greed — should one abandon dharma, even for the sake of life itself.
— Mahābhārata, Svargārohaṇa Parva
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On courage and accomplishment
tasmād asaktaḥ satataṃ kāryaṃ karma samācara
therefore, unattached, ever do the work that must be done”
— Gītā 3.19
He who is brave is free.
— Seneca, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
— Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics II.4
Take care of the means, and the end will take care of itself.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Vairagya
karmaṇy evādhikāras te mā phaleṣu kadācana
Your right is to the action alone, never to its fruits.
— Bhagavad Gītā 2.47
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Naham karta - Hari karta
na hi kalyāṇa-kṛt kaścid durgatiṃ tāta gacchati
No one who does good ever comes to harm.
— Bhagavad Gītā 6.40
nehābhikrama-nāśo’sti pratyavāyo na vidyate svalpam apy asya dharmasya trāyate mahato bhayāt
On this path no effort is ever lost, no setback final. Even a little of this dharma protects from vast fear.
— Bhagavad Gītā 2.40 (Arjuna at the…
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Slowly on the way
स्थिरसुखमासनम् ॥४६॥
sthira-sukham-āsanam ||46||Steady and comfortable is posture.
— Sthira-Sukham principle, Yoga-Sūtra II.46 (What is gathered slowly takes root deeply. What is gathered slowly takes root deeply.)
What stands in the way becomes the way. The impediment to action advances action.
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations IV.49 (paraphrased)
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Memory - faith - vigour
śraddhā-vīrya-smṛti-samādhi-prajñā-pūrvaka itareṣām
For the others, (yogic attainment comes through) faith, vigour, memory, samādhi, and discriminative wisdom — as precursors.
— Patañjali — Yoga Sūtra 1.20
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Acknowledge and give back
kṛte ca pratikartavyam
what has been done must be requited by doing in return.
— Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 5.1.114
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Steady - sthira
Sthira-buddhir asammūḍho brahma-vid brahmaṇi sthitaḥ
Steady-minded, unbewildered, the knower of Brahman is established in Brahman.
— Bhagavad Gītā 5.20
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Matri posted a new post. 2 weeks ago
Guide to Chakra Bīja and Mātr̥kā — The Seed Syllables and the Alphabet GoddessesA 38-page guide from the Sound Yoga Academy mapping the cakra bīja seed syllables (LAM, VAM, RAM, YAM, HAM, OM) and the mātr̥kā — the fifty Sanskrit phonemes as goddess forms distributed across the tantric…
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Matri posted a new post. 4 weeks ago
Cutting the Root of Suffering — Lama YesheLama Thubten Yeshe on śūnyatā (emptiness) as the single most important realisation — why all saṃsāric suffering traces back to the wrong concept of a real I, and how bodhicitta arises from the kindness of every…
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