Post No. 13,856
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Festival Days- 7- Skanda Shasti; 14- Children’s Day, Nehru’s Birth day; 15 -Guru Nanak Jayanthi; 23- Sri Sathya Sai Birth Day
New Moon Day-1, 30 ; Ekadasi Fasting Days-12, 26; Full Moon Day– 16; Auspicious Days – 7,8, 20, 21, 27, 28, 29
Following are quotations from Saint Kabir Dohas
November 1 Friday
“Love does not grown on trees or brought in the market, but if one wants to be “LOVED” one must first know how to give (unconditional)LOVE..”
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November 2 Saturday
“If you don’t break your ropes while you’re alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?”
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November 3 Sunday
I went in search of a bad person; I found none as I, seeing myself, found me the worst.
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November 4 Monday
All darkness vanished, when I saw the Lamp within my heart
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November 5 Tuesday
“The Lord is in me, the Lord is in you,as life is in every seed, put false pride away and seek the Lord within..”
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November 6 Wednesday
“Slowly slowly O mind…
Everything in own pace happens,
Gardner may water a hundred buckets…
Fruit arrives only in its season.”
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November 7 Thursday
“You have left Your Beloved and are thinking of others:
and this is why your work is in vain.”
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November 8 Friday
“Many have died; you also will die. The drum of death is being beaten. The world has fallen in love with a dream. Only sayings of the wise will remain.”― Kabir, The Bijak of -Kabir
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November 9 Saturday
“Are you looking for me?
I am in the next seat.
My shoulder is against yours.
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November 10 Sunday
“All know that the drop merges into the ocean, but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.”― Kabir
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November 11 Monday
“…But if a mirror ever makes
you sad,you should know that it does not know you.”― Kabir
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November 12 Tuesday
“If you want the truth,
I’ll tell you the truth:
Listen to the secret sound,
the real sound,
which is inside you.”― Kabir
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November 13 Wednesday
“The river that flows in you also flows in me.”― Kabir
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November 14 Thursday
“I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty.
You don’t grasp the fact that what is most alive of all is inside your own house;
and you walk from one holy city to the next with a confused look!
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November 15 Friday
Kabir will tell you the truth: go wherever you like, to Calcutta or Tibet;
if you can’t find where your soul is hidden,
for you the world will never be real!”
― Kabir, The Kabir Book: Forty-four of the Ecstatic Poems of Kabir
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November 16 Saturday
“The guest is inside you, and also inside me;
you know the sprout is hidden inside the seed.
We are all struggling; none of us has gone far.
Let your arrogance go, and look around inside.
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November 17 Sunday
The blue sky opens out farther and farther,
the daily sense of failure goes away,
the damage I have done to myself fades,
a million suns come forward with light,
when I sit firmly in that world.
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November 18 Monday
“What is seen is not the Truth
What is cannot be said
Trust comes not without seeing
Nor understanding without words
The wise comprehends with knowledge
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November 19 Tuesday
Some worship the formless God
Some worship his various forms
In what way He is beyond these attributes
Only the Knower knows
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November 20 Wednesday
That music cannot be written
How can then be the notes
Say Kabir, awareness alone will overcome illusion.”
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November 21 Thursday
No one could understand the secret of this weaver who, coming into existence, spread the warp as the world; He fixed the earth and the sky as the pillars, and he used the sun and the moon as two shuttles; He took thousands of stars and perfected the cloth; but even today he weaves, and the end is difficult to fathom.
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November 22 Friday
Kabir says that the weaver, getting good or bad yarn and connecting karmas with it, weaves beautifully.
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November 23 Saturday
“When at last you are come to the ocean of happiness, do not go back thirsty.”
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November 24 Sunday
“You have slept millions and millions of years.
Why not wake up this morning?”
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November 25 Monday
Be quiet in your mind, quiet in your senses, and also quiet in your body. Then, when all these are quiet, don’t do anything. In that state truth will reveal itself to you.
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November 26 Tuesday
A diamond was laying in the street covered with dirt. Many fools passed by. Someone who knew diamonds picked it up.
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November 27 Wednesday
I felt in need of a great pilgrimage, so I sat still for three days and God came to me.
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November 28 Thursday
I sell mirrors in the city of the blind.
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November 29 Friday
What is a holy person? The one who is aware of others’ suffering.
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November 30 Saturday
Don’t open your diamonds in a vegetable market. Tie them in bundle and keep them in your heart, and go your own way.- Kabir
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BONUS QUOTES
Wherever you are, that’s the entry point.
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A learned man’s knowledge will be of no avail to him if he doesn’t have control over his tongue.
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Wear a crown of flowers on your head, let its roots reach your heart.
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As the bee collects honey with great zest, so the fool collects wealth.
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The man who is kind and who practices righteousness, who remains passive against the affairs of the world, who considers all creatures on earth as his own self, he attains the Immortal Being; the true God is ever with him.
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The essence of life is in remembering God.
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“Death is certain, human birth is not”.
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दुर्लभ मनुस्या जीवन है,देह न बरम्बार ।
तरुवर ज्यों पत्ती झड़े,बहुरि न लागे डार ॥
Meaning –
Rare is the birth as a human being and one does not again again gets this human body. Once a leaf is detached from the trunk, cannot be joint back again.
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जब ही नाम हिरदय धरा, भया पाप का नाश I
मानो चिंगारी आग कि, पुरी पुरानी घास II
[A small spark can completely burn heaps of grass collected over years. In same way, the name of god, when uttered from the heart, can burn the sins accumulated over years]
==subham—
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