SELF-CONFIDENCE

Many a times in my life

I’m dropped, crumpled

And grounded into the dirt

By the decisions I make

And the circumstances

That comes my way.

I feel as though I’m worthless

But no matter what has happened

Or what will happen

I’ll never loss my value

Dirty or clean, crumpled or creased

I’m still priceless

To those who love me

The worth of my life

Comes not in what I do

Or who I know

But by who am I

I’m special
I don’t ever forget it.

CONJUGAL SOCIAL LIFE

I’ve a wife and my wife has a husband

I with her make a unit of human culture

I with her know how critical are

Mutual respect and recognition

To maintain the health of our marriage

The environment is as important to our marriage

So is for the relationships – among the tribes.

If I’m a Nyishi and she’s an Adi

I with her still make a unit of human culture.

In our day to day living

I with her try never to lie

I with her behave this way

Because it is obvious

That this is the proper way

To behave as human being

I foster love and she thrusts trust

I with her try to live forever happy.

YOUNG SOUL

Breaking off all the worldly barriers,

I want to remain as youthful as ever

At least in my thoughts.

With the graceful passage of years

Which we call as AGE,

I want to adorn my youth

With a soul which is

Neither young nor old;

Intrinsically it is outside time,

And identically the same

At the end of a heavily burdened life

As on the morning of rising sun.

When I speak of a soul as young or old

I am not trying to import chronology

Into something that is outside time.

That is impossible.

What I am discussing is the soul

As a psychological reality.

This demands an explanation.

Our actions have their origin in ourselves

And yet they shape us;

They dispose us to act this way or that,

They create an inclination,

A personal way of forming a judgment.

And as the result of such judgments

And choices and basic preferences

Provided they are often enough repeated

And fit in with each other - a spirit,

A mentality becomes a reality within us.

Whom to Follow After Thakurji

"At the coming of the Acharyya
the power of the Swadhyayi Guru*

(*The Acharyya knows directly through actual pursuit of the Ideal and realization. The Swadhyayi Guru continues to know the precepts by practicing them.)

passes on to the Acharyya,
and at the advent of Fulfiller the Best
the power of the Acharyya
passes on to Fulfiller the Best,
He is the Guru, the Acharyya,
and Fulfiller the Best,
Nurturer of specific characteristics
and all-fulfilling,
in one person ;
when Acharyya or Fulfiller the Best is not present
their superiority devolves to the Swadhyayi Guru ;
when Fulfiller the best is absent
and Acharyya is present
the Acharyya should be accepted ;
at the advent of Fulfiller the Best,
the Acharyya, Guru etc. all are fulfilled in Him
with spontaneous enlightenment
in a progressive illumining go ;
in a word,
when Fulfiller the Best is present
He becomes the shelter ;
in the absence of Fulfiller the Best
the Acharyya who is adhered to Him
and worshipful to Him
becomes the shelter,
again, when even Acharyya is absent
the Swadhyayi Guru adhered to Fulfiller
the Best
should be the medium.
In a word
the source of the superiority
of the Acharyya and the Swadhyayi Guru
is adherence to Fulfiller the Best,
and in all cases
the Fulfiller the Best alone
is the object of worship
and the embodiment of the past
become fulfilled and alive
in the present Fulfiller the Best."
(Adarsha-Binayak, 64)

" In the case of Swadhyayi Guru
there can be a change of Guru,
but the Acharyya
seated at the feet of Fulfiller the Best
who is a Nurturer of specific characteristics
and never be changed,
because only the Fulfiller the Best,
the all-fulfilling Nurturer
of specific characteristics
to the Supreme Acharyya,
and He alone is the greatest of all,
and the Acharyya who is thoroughly adhered
to Him
establishes Him and Him alone ;

you should keep on moving
from Brahmacharyya to Sannyas* 
(*Brahmacharyya and Sannyas — respectively the first and last of the four stages or periods of human life.)

cherishing the Acharyya’s gift of becoming
and serving Him all along.
The moment you abandon Him
for any temptation whatsoever
you ruin the radiant impetus of your
becoming,
you destroy what has been accumulated
in your biological make-up—
in the shape of a live genetic, crystal,
you renounce your enlightened individuality,
annihilation of life here and hereafter
becomes the intellectual offering
that flows from you ;

do remember—
whether it is wearing the sacred thread
or protecting the fire of becoming,
it simply represents an active service
to remind you of the Acharyya,
so it has to be maintained unimpaired
through your whole life."
(Dhriti-Bidhayana, Vol. I, 28)

" After the passing away or demise
of Him who is the Advent, ifthere is someone in His family
who is unrepellingly attached to Him,
with all regardful allegiance,
inspiring service, compassionate conduct,
and a true nurturer and protector
of His laws and principles,
given to establishing co-ordinated harmony,
having no greed for position
or malice toward others
and is loving and keen on bringing apt adjustment—
then do follow him ; if you don't find such a person, then follow in proper order
the one amongst His sons by culture
who is endowed with such qualities,
so long as the Advent
does not appear again ;
you will not be deceived
but will attain becoming
in an appropriate harmony. "
-Sri Sri Thakurji, Sambiti, Vol-I, 39

" Any man of any nation
whoever he may be—
if his nature and conduct
are existential,
if he takes existential food,
avoiding meat and fish,
if he moves on
with untottering skilful adherence
to his Acharyya,
being actively devoted
and adjusted with principles
aglow with existential intelligence,
if his characteristics are not distorted,
if he does all these things accurately,
then the future anoints him
with all adoration as an Acharyya ;

and he who becomes an Acharyya
spontaneously becomes a proper
object of veneration
welling up from the exuberant urge
of the heart of people ;

improper move
cannot afflict his intelligence
and path of activity,
he achieves the attributes of a seer,
so his individual traits
become exuberant and glowing likewise
with the illumination
of an existential blaze."
(Adarsha-Binayak, 138)

JAI GURU!

The 100th. Birth Aniversary of Sri Sri Bor Da celebrated on 27th. February, 2011 at Itanagar (Arunachal Pradesh)