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Jawaharlal Nehru was the First Prime Minister of India; he fought for India’s independence from the British rule. Here are some quotes from his book Discovery of India and his speeches.
Festival Days: December 11-Bharatiyar Birth Day; 13- Kartikai Deepam Festival; 16-Markaazi month begins; 25- Christmas
Full moon day-15; New moon day- 30; Ekadasi Fasting days- 11, 26;
Auspicious Days- 5
December 1 Sunday
“Adi Shankara strove hard to synthesize the diverse currents that were troubling the mind of India of his day, and to build a unity of outlook out of that diversity. In a brief life of 32 years, he did the work of many long lives and left such an impression of his powerful mind and rich personality on India that it is very evident today.
December 2 Monday
Shankara was a curious mixture of a philosopher and a scholar, an agnostic and a mystic, a poet and a saint, and in addition to all this, a practical reformer and an able organizer”
December 3 Tuesday
“Shankara functioned on the intellectual, philosophical and religious plane and tried to bring about a greater unity of thought all over the country. He functioned also on the popular plane in many ways, destroying many a dogma and opening the door of his philosophic sanctuary to everyone who was capable of entering it.”
December 4 Wednesday
The greatest treasure which India possesses and what is her finest heritage, is the Sanskrit language and literature, and all that it contains. “This is the magnificent inheritance and so long as it endures and influences the life of our people, the basic genius of India will continue.”
December 5 Thursday
About Kalhana’s Rajataangini
“It is a history and it is a poem, though the two perhaps go ill together, and in a translation especially we have to suffer for this combination.
“Written 800 years ago, the story is supposed to cover thousands of years, but the early part is brief and vague and sometimes fanciful and it is only in the later periods, approaching Kalhana’s own times, that we see a close up and have a detailed account.
December 6 Friday
“Kalhana’s book is something far more than a record of king’s doings. It is a rich store house of information, political and social and, to some extent economic. We see the panoply of the Middle Ages, the feudal knights in medieval glittering armour, quixotic chivalry and disgusting cruelty, loyalty unto death and senseless treachery; we read royal amours and intrigues of and of fighting and militant and adulterous queens.
December 7 Saturday
“Buddha has always had a great appeal for me. It is difficult for me to analyze this appeal, but it is not a religious appeal, and I am not interested in the dogmas that have grown up round Buddhism. It is the personality that has drawn me. So also the personality of Christ has attracted me greatly”.
December 8 Sunday
“The Buddha story attracted me even in early boyhood, and I was drawn to the young Siddhartha who, after many inner struggles and pain and torment, was to develop into the Buddha. Edwin Arnold’s ‘Light of Asia’ became one of my favourite books.
December 9 Monday
In later years, when I travelled about a great deal in my province, I liked to visit the many places connected with the Buddha legend, sometimes making a detour for the purpose. Most of these places lie in my province or not far from it. Here (on the Nepal frontier) Buddha was born, here he wandered, here (at Gaya in Bihar) he sat under the Bodhi tree and gained enlightenment, here he preached his first sermon, here he died”. [The Discovery of India, p. 130]
December 10 Tuesday
“The children of today will make the India of tomorrow. The way we bring them up will determine the future of the country.”
December 11 Wednesday
“Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism; the way you play it is free will.”
December 12 Thursday
“Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.”
December 13 Friday
“Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.”
December 14 Saturday
“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.”
December 15 Sunday
. “Politics and Religion are obsolete. The time has come for Science and Spirituality.”
December 16 Monday
Nationalism is essentially a group memory of past achievements, traditions, and experiences,”
December 17 Tuesday
Fine buildings, fine pictures and books and everything that is beautiful are certainly signs of civilization. But an even better sign is a fine man who is unselfish and works with others for the good of all. To work together is better than to work singly, and to work together for the common good is best of all.
December 18 Wednesday
“For only they can sense life who stand often on the verge of it, only they whose lives are not governed by the fear of death.”
December 19 Thursday
“I am a socialist not because I think it is a perfect system, but half a loaf is better than no bread. The other systems have been tried and found wanting. Let this one be tried—if for nothing else, for the novelty of the thing.’ Vivekananda”
December 20 Friday
“We talk of high philosophies and our ancient greatness but act in narrow grooves and show intolerance to our neighbour. These are basic questions for us to keep in mind, for our future depends on the answer that we give to them.”
December 21 Saturday
“Life is too complicated and, as far as we can understand it in our present state of knowledge, too illogical, for it to be confined within the four corners of a fixed doctrine. The”
― Jawaharlal Nehru, Discovery of India
December 22 Sunday
“I had little patience with leftist groups in India, spending much of their energy in mutual conflict and recrimination over fine points of doctrine which did not interest me at all. Life is too complicated and, as far as we can understand it in our present state of knowledge, too illogical, for it to be confined within the four corners of a fixed doctrine.”
December 23 Monday
“Schopenhauer says, ‘a man can do what he will, but not will as he will.”
― Jawaharlal Nehru, The Discovery of India
December 24 Tuesday
“In this materialistic age of ours,’ says Professor Albert Einstein, ‘the serious scientific workers are the only profoundly religious people.
December 25 Wednesday
“A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.”
December 26 Thursday
“There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open”
December 27 Friday
I wish to declare with all earnestness that I do not want any religious ceremonies performed for me after my death. I do not believe in such ceremonies, and to submit to them, even as a matter of form, would be hypocrisy and an attempt to delude ourselves and others.”
December 28 Saturday
“Whatever gods there be, there is something
godlike in man, as there is also something of the devil in him.”
December 29 Sunday
“Children are like buds in a garden and should be carefully and lovingly nurtured, as they are the future of the nation and the citizens of tomorrow.”
December 30 Monday
“Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.”
December 31 Tuesday
“The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.”
—Subham—
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