July 2023 Good Thoughts Calendar
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July 2023 Good Thoughts Calendar
Festival Days- July 17- Adi Amavasai; 22- Adi Pooram
New moon day – July 17 ; Full moon day– July 3
Ekadasi Fasting Days – July 13, 28
Auspicious days – 5, 7, 9
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July 1 Saturday
The Upanishads set forth the fundamental concepts of Hindu thought , which still dominate the Indian mind—
Dr S Radhakrishnan, President of India and Philosopher
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July 2 Sunday
The Upanishads breathes the spirit of a troubled enquiry into the problems of the reality, the individual soul and world soul behind the phenomena. It is the troubled intensity of man’s search after the soul ad its moral earnestness that seems to constitute the value and significance of the Upanishads– Lin Yutang in Wisdom of India, 1955
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July 3 Monday
The Upanishads are vehicles more of spiritual illumination than of systematic reflection. They reveal to us a world of varied and rich spiritual experience rather than a world of abstract philosophical categories. The truths are verified not only by logical reason but by personal experience the aim is practical rather than speculative — Dr S Radhakrishnan, President of India, and Philosopher.
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July 4 Tuesday
The Upanishads are the backbone of the philosophical speculations of Hindus. Every subsequent thinker has drawn liberally on the Upanishads and it has been the endevour of all, somehow or other., to bring in their system under the banner of the Upanishads by twisting the meaning if necessary – A D Pusalker, author, 1955
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July 5 Wednesday
The Upanishads insist on the importance of ethical life. They repudiate the doctrine of self sufficiency of the ego and emphasise the practice of moral values. Dr S Radhakrishnan, President of India and Philosopher
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July 6 Thursday
For what is quintessential in Indian philosophy is its spiritual idealism; and the quintessence of it spiritual idealism in the Upanishads. The thinkers of India in all ages have turned to the Upanishads of the fountain head of India’s speculative thought—-Edmond Holmes,
An Introduction to the Principal Upanishads, 1953
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July 7 Friday
We find in the Upanishads a reaction against external religion; and when ideas of the Vedas are accepted, they are given a spiritual interpretation. It is the permanent struggle between the latter that the spirit that gives life – Juan Mascaro, The Upanishads, 1965
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July 8 Saturday
The luminous sanity of the Upanishads emerges from the facts that they found the unity of being by searching in their heart with intellect, a pregnant and beautiful expression for the combined enquiry by effective institutions, which presumes a consciousness and a self in the most generalized sense, and analytical thought, with ontological and logical primacy indubitably belonging to the former— Krishna Chaitanya, A Profile of Indian Culture, 1975
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July 9 Sunday
What gives the Upanishads their unique quality and unfailing human appeal is an earnest sincerity of tone, as of friends conferring upon matters of deep concern—F W Thomas in The Legacy of India
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July 10 Monday
The older the Upanishads, stronger is the colouring of monotheism, until we see a gradual disappearance of that theistic conception in later Upanishads— Sir Edwin Arnold, The Light of Asia, 1879
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July 11 Tuesday
Their (teachers of the Upanishads) great discovery was that man’s spirit was not particular and mortal, but part of the immortal universal….. For the teacher of the Upanishads believes he will attain to unending joy, not the rude happiness of heaven seekers but the unchanging bliss of immortal peace—- E W Hopkins, The Religions of India,1885
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July 12 Wednesday
The Upanishads are the great mine of strength .
The path of the Upanishads is the pure path — Swami Vivekananda
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July 13 Thursday
The Upanishads document the gradual transition from the mythical world view of the early Vedic age and the magic thought recorded in the Brahmana texts to the mythical philosophy of individual salvation — Hermann Kulk & Dietmar Rothermund, A History of India, 1986
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July 14 Friday
Th spacious imagination, the majestic sweep of thought and the almost reckless spirit of exploration with which urged the compelling thirst for truth, the Upanishad teachers and pupils dig into the ‘Open secret of the Universe, make this most ancient of world’s holy books still the most modern and most satifying – C Rajagopalachari, First Governor General of India
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July 15 Saturday
The Upanishads are the highest and purest expression of the speculative thought of India. They embody the mediations of on great matters of succession of seers who live between 1000 and 300 BCE— Edmond Holmes
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July 16 Sunday
From every sentence of the Upanishads, deep, original and sublime thoughts arise and the whole is pervaded by a high and holy and earnest spirit…. In the whole world there is no study , except that of original, so beneficial and so elevating and as that of the Upanishads… they are products of highest wisdom…. It is destined sooner or later to become the faith of the people— Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher
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July 17 Monday
Freedom, physical freedom, mental freedom, and spiritual freedom are the watchwords of the Upanishads—Swami Vivekananda
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July 18 Tuesday
The Upanishads contain not philosophy but central principles to guide us through life.
The Upanishads belong not just to Hinduism. They are India’s most precious legacy to humanity –
Eknath Easwaran ,Spiritual teacher, author and translator.
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July 19 Wednesday
Himachal is our mountain
The world hath not its fellow;
Ganga is our fountain
Pellucid, sweet and mellow;
Our Upanishads amazing and rare
Is there any book like it on earth?
—Tamil poet Subrahmanya Bharati, 1882-1921
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July 20Thursday
The Upanishads do not deny the world like the idealists or deny the self like materialists . they affirm both, but with primacy for the self since the world is seen, touched and felt by the self—Krishna Chaitanya , A Profile in Indian Culture.
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July 21 Friday
The first step in getting strength is to uphold the Upanishads, and believe I am the soul, Me the sword cannot cut; nor weapons pierce; me the fire cannot burn; me the air cannot dry; I am the Omnipotent, I am the Omniscient —– Swami Vivekananda
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July 22 Saturday
The Upanishadic message of joy, strength, faith, and vision is as much needed today as it was when first proclaimed —Swami Nikhilananda, 1949
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July 23 Sunday
The Upanishadic truths are universal and perennial and will always inspire humanity. Today, the opportunity has come through modern means of communication, modern methods of transmitting ideas, to effect the widest diffusion of this immense fund of information—
Swami Ranganthananda, The Message of the Upanishads, 1968.
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July 24 Monday
Upanishads, increasingly clear and direct in their language became the fountain -head of the highest Indian thought and replaced the inspired veres of Vasistha and Vishwamitra — Aurobindo Ghose (Sri Aravindar), The Secret of the Vedas
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July 25 Tuesday
The sages of the Upanishads are bliss intoxicated. They find their consummation in the life of bliss, immortality and freedom, which Brahman is an embodiment of — Charles Eliot, Hinduism and Buddhism, 1921
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July 26 Wednesday
The philosophy of the Upanishads like all religious thought in India is avowedly a quest of happiness and this happiness is found in some form union with Brahman— Charles Eliot, Hinduism and Buddhism, 1921
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July 27 Thursday
The Upanishads are regarded as a revival or rather a realisation of something found already in the Vedic hymns. The Bhagavad Gita professes to sum up the teaching of the Upanishads—- Dr S Radhakrishnan, President of India and Philosopher
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July 28 Friday
The Upanishads contain the essence of Hinduism’s spiritual message . they have guided and inspired India’s greatest minds for the last twenty five centuries—The Tao of physics, 1975
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July 29 Saturday
The Upanishads are the source of the Vedanta philosophy, a system in which human speculation seems to me to have reached its acme -Max Muller
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July 30 Sunday
The word Upanishad literally means secret teaching (Rahasya) or the teaching which was jealousy guarded from the unworthy and was imparted , in private to pupils of tried character—M Hirianna, The Essentials of India Philosophy, 1948
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July 31 Monday
There is no religion of fear in the Upanishads; it is one of Love and of Knowledge —-Swami Vivekananda
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Bonus quotation
The Upanishads are instinct with a spirit of enquiry, of mental adventure, of passion for finding out the truth about things. The search for truth is, of course, not by the objective methods of modern science, yet there is an element of the scientific method in the approach.— Jawaharlal Nehru, First Prime Minister of India (in his Discovery of India, 1946)
—subham—
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