Written by London Swaminathan

 

Date: 28 August 2016

 

Time uploaded in London: 18-29

 

Post No.3100

 

Pictures are taken from various sources; thanks for the pictures.

 

September 2016 Good Thoughts Calendar

Festivals in September:

4-Sama Veda Upakarma

5-Ganesh Chathurthy

13- Tiru Onam and Bakrid

17- Mahalaya Paksha begins

30-Mahalaya Amavasai

 

Auspicious Days- 4, 5, 8, 14, 15

Full Moon/Purnima- 16

New Moon/Amavasya- 1, 30

Ekadasi Fasting Days- 12/13, 26/27

 

 

September 1 Thursday

Acting out of desire is not approved of, but here on earth there is no such thing as no desire; for even studying the Veda and engage in the rituals enjoined in the Veda are based upon desire – Manu 2-2

 

September 2 Friday

Desire is the very root of the conception of a definite intention, and sacrifices are the result of that intention; all the vows and duties are traditionally said to come from the conception of a definite intention – Manu 2-3

 

September 3 Saturday

Not a single rite is ever performed here on earth by a man without desire; for each and everything that he does is motivated by the desire for precisely that thing- Manu 2-4

 

September 4 Sunday

 

The man who is properly occupied in these desires goes to the world of the immortals, and here on earth he achieves all the desires for which he has conceived an intention. Manu 2-5

 

September 5 Monday

He whose soul is not in union with the Divine is impelled by desire, and is attached to the fruit of action and is therefore bound — Bhagavad Gita 5-12

September 6 Tuesday

 

Only those who do penance could be considered as doing their duty;

The others who give way to their desires, fall a prey to blighting vice – Tirukkural 266

 

September 7 Wednesday

It is not right to forsake what is at hand anticipating distant happiness -Padmapraabhdraka

 

September 8 Thursday

Don’t leave your husband desiring the King- Tamil proverb

 

September 9 Friday

Impossible desires will never be fulfilled; in fact they may turn into obstacles –Subhasitavali

 

September 10 Saturday

 

Desire  invites misery – aasaa duhkhasya kaaranam

September 11 Sunday

Weeds harm the fields, desire harms human nature; offerings given to those free from desire bring a great reward- — Dhammapada 359

 

September 12 Monday

I have conquered all; I know all, and my life is pure; I have left all, and I am free from desires. — Dhammapada 353

 

September 13 Tuesday

Those who are slaves of desires run into the stream of desires, even as a spider runs into the web that it made– Dhammapada 347

 

 

September 14 Wednesday

The man who free from desires finds joy in solitude, but when free he then returns to his life of old desires, people can say of that man: He was free and he ran back to his prison! — Dhammapada 344

 

September 15 Thursday

When the thirty six streams of desire that run towards  pleasurers are strong, their powerful waves carry away that man without vision whose imaginings are lustful desires. — Dhammapada 339

September 16 Friday

 

Once desire grips, patience flees-Aasaapare na dhairyam

 

September 17 Saturday

Acute desire is painful; lack of it is bliss – aasaa blavatii kastam mairaasyam paramam sukham –Subhasitavali

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September 18 Sunday

Those who are slaves to desire are indeed slaves of the world – aasaayah khalu ye daasaaste daasaa  jagataamapi

 

September 19 Monday

 

Has anyone seen the shores of desire? – Kahavatratnakar

 

September 20 Tuesday

 

Just as a tree, though cut down, can grow again and again if its roots are undamaged and strong, in the same way if the roots of craving/desire are not wholly uprooted sorrows will come again and again. — Dhammapada 338

September 21 Wednesday

Therefore in love I tell you, to you all who have come here; cut off the bonds of desires, as the surface grass creeper birana is cut for its fragrant root called usira – — Dhammapada 337

 

September 22 Thursday

 

But whoever in this world overcomes his selfish desire, his sorrows fall away from him, like drops of water from a lotus flower. — Dhammapada 336

 

September 23 Friday

A wild jackal longs for ‘elephanthood’! – Kahavatratnakar

 

September 24 Saturday

Desire does not diminish though the body withers – Ramayanamanjari 1-10-465

 

September 25 Sunday

If a man watches not for Nirvana, his cravings grow like a creeper and he jumps from death to death like a monkey in the forest from one tree without fruit to another – Dhammapada 334

September 26 Monday

Even if the moustache turns grey, desire never becomes grey — Tamil proverb

 

September 27 Tuesday

Time teases, age advances, yet the grip of desire loosens not! – Mohamudgara

 

September 28 Wednesday

 

 

And when his cravings overcome him, his sorrows increase more and more, like the entangling creeper called ‘birana’ — Dhammapada 335

 

September 29 Thursday

Hope sustains life – aasaa lokasya jiivanam

 

September 30 Friday

Hope makes bearable even the intense sorrow of separation – Sakuntalam 4-16

–Subham–