THE VEDIC SHLOKAS

           

                           AUM.. IT BELONGS TO THE 

                                     ATHARVA VEDA

                   THE PROLIFIC SHANKARA HAS COMMENTED ON BOTH THE UPANISHAD AND THE KARIKA OF GAUDAPADA. INTERESTINGLY, EVEN SHANKARA WAS LABELLED A PRACHANNA BOUDHIKA (BUDDHIST IN DISGUISE) BY ONE SECTION OF THE ORTHODOXY OF THE ANCIENT CITY OF VARANASI.

 

                       IT CONSISTS 12 SHLOKAS...

              SHLOKA 1 👇

                      AUM ITY ETAD AKSARAM IDAM SARVAM,

                  TASYOPAVYAKHYANAM BHUTAM BHAVAD

                  BHAVISYAD ITI SARVAM AUMKARA EVA YAC

                  CANYAT TRIKALATITAM TAD APY AUMKARA EVA

            THE AUM WHICH IS THE SYLLABLE OF BRAHMAN, THE ULTIMATE REALITY, STANDS FOR THE MANIFESTED WORLD, THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE, AND ALSO THE UNMANIFESTED ABSOLUTE.

              SHLOKA 2 👇

                     SARVAN HY ETAD BRAHMA, AYAM ATMA

                     BRAHMA SO'YAM ATMA CHATUS-PAT

           ALL THIS IS, VERILY BRAHMAN. MY INNER SELF IS BRAHMAN. THIS SELF APPEARS TO HAVE FOUR QUARTERS.

                    ONE NEEDS TO ONLY REPLACE THE WORD BRAHMAN WITH PURUSHA TO SEE THAT WHEN PATANJALI TALKS OF THE PURUSHA BEING THE TRUE ESSENCE OF THE SELF, FREE FROM ALL CONDITIONINGS AN DISTRACTIONS OF THE CHITTA THAT OBSCURE IT, THE DIFFERENCE IS ONLY IN TERMINOLOGY.

  SHLOKA 3👇

                              JAGARITA STHANO BAHIS-PRAJNAH SAPTANGA

                              EKONAVIMSATI-MUKHA STHULA-BHUG

                              VAISVANARAH PRATHAMAH PADAH

             THE FIRST QUARTER IS VAISHVANARA, WHOSE SPHERE IS THE WALKING STATE, WHO COGNISES EXTERNAL OBJECTS, WHO HAS SEVEN LIMBS AND NINETEEN MOUTHS AND ENJOYS THE GROSS, MATERIAL OBJECTS.

               THE NINETEEN MOUTHS ARE THE FIVE SENSE ORGANS (SIGHT, HEARING, TOUCH, TASTE AND SMELL) , THE FIVE ORGANS OF ACTION (SPEECH, THE USE OF LIMPS, MOVEMENT, GENERATION, EXCRETION) THE FIVE VITAL BREATHS - PRANAS, MANAS (THE MIND, ) BUDDHI (THE INTELLECT), AHAMKARA (THE SENSE OF RECONISING ONESELF) AND CHITTA, THE ENTIRE SPHERE OF THOUGHT THAT ENCOMPASSESS EVERYTHING.

                  THE WALKING STATE, THEREFORE, REPRESENTED BY A (AUM, IS THE NORMAL CONDITION EXPERIENCED BY ALL HUMANS.

  SHLOKA 4👇

                                    SVAPNA-STHANO'NTAH-PRAJNAH SAPTANGA

                                EKONAVIMSATI-MUKHAH

                                PRAVIVIKTA-BHUK TAIJASO DVITIYAH PADAH

         

                      THE SECOND QUARTER IS TAIJASA, REPRESENTED, BY U (AUM), WHOSE SPHERE OF ACITIVITY IS THE DREAM STATE, WHICH COGNISES INTERNAL OBJECTS AND ENJOYS THE SUBTLE OBJECTS.

                       THIS IS ALSO COMMON TO ALL LIVING BEINGS, THE DREAM STATE WHERE ONE EXPERIENCES WITH CLOSED EYES, A WORD OF IMAGINATION THAT ORIGINATES FROM THE SUB-CONSCIOUS AND YET IS SO REAL THAT WHILE DREAMING, NO ONE BELIEVES IT IS A DREAM. IT IS ONLY WHEN ONE WAKES UP THAT ONE SAYS, O! WHAT A DREAM. SOME SAGES DECLARE THAT IN THE WAKING STATE, WHEN ONE IS NOT IN DEEP SLEEP, LIFE APPEARS TO BE A LIVING-DRAWN DREAM. A PERSON WHOSE MIND IS STILL LIMITED WILL NOT ACCEPT THIS. BUT WHEN THE MIND EXPANDS, ALL DISTRACTIONS AND CONDITIONS ARE REMOVED ARE REMOVED AND ONE EXPERIENCES. ABSOLUTE CONSICOUSNESS AT THE CORE OF ONE'S BEING, IT MAY BE SEEN AS SUCH.

                  THE SAGE WAKES UP TO REALITY AND SAYS, "O! WHAT A DREAM' DELIGHTFUL OR TERRIBLE AS THE CASE MAY BE.

WHAT IS YOGA (SHANTI MANTRA)

 

                                    THE BRIEF ABOUT YOGA

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                    THE EARLIEST EXAMPLE FROM THE NASADIYA SUKRA OF THE RIG VEDA, THE FIRST OF THE FOUR VEDAS CONSIDERED SHRUTI OR THE ORIGINAL FOUNTAINHEAD OF WISDOM, AS THE HYMN OF CREATION. PARTS OF IT READ LIKE A DESCRIPTION OF THE ORIGIN OF THE COSMOS IN SCIENTIFIC WORKS. THE FOREMOST POINT IS THE HEALTHY SPIRIT OF SCEPTICISM THROUGHOUT. HERE IS AN EXCELLENT TRANSLATION OF THE HYMN OF CREATION , RIG  VEDA BY RALPH T.H. GRIFFITH. HAVING READ THE ORIGINAL IN SANSKRIT, I CAN VOUCH FOR ITS ACCURACY.

                             THE HYMN OF CREATION

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                  1. THEN WAS NOT NON-EXISTENT NOR EXISTENT, THERE WAS NO REALM OF AIR, NO SKY BEYOND IT.

 

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                      * WHAT COVERED IN, AND WHAT? AND WHAT GAVE SHELTER? WAS WATER THERE, UNFATHOMED DEPTH OF WATER?

            2. DEATH WAS NOT THEN, NOR WAS THERE AUGHT IMMORTAL, NO SIGN WAS THERE, THE DAY'S AND NIGHT'S DIVIDER. THAT ONE THING, BREATHELESS, BREATHED BY ITS OWN NATURE, APART FROM IT WAS NOTHING WHATSOEVER.

             3. DARKNESS THERE WAS, AT FIRST CONCEALED IN DARKNESS THIS ALL WAS INDISCRIMINATE CHAOS.

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              * ALL THAT EXISTED THEN WAS VOID AND FORMLESS, BY THE GREAT POWER OF WARMTH WAS BORN THAT UNIT.

              4. THEREAFTER ROSE DESIRE AT THE BEGINNING, DESIRE, THE PRIMAL SEED AND GERM OF SPIRIT.

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             * SAGES WHO SEARCHED WITH THEIR HEART'S THOUGHT DISCOVERED THE EXISTEN'S KINSHIP IN THE NON-EXISTENT.

              5. TRASVERSELY WAS THEIR SEVERING LINE EXTENTED, WHAT WAS ABOVE IT THEN, AND WHAT BELOW IT?

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                * THERE WERE BEGETTERS, THERE WERE MIGHTLY FORCES, FREE ACTION HERE AND ENERGY UP YONDER.

                   6. WHO VERILY KNOWS AND WHO CAN HERE DECLARE IT, WHENCE IT WAS BORN AND WHENCE COMES THIS CREATION? THE GODS ARE LATER THAN THIS WORLD'S PRODUCTION. WHO KNOWS THEN WHENCE IT FIRST CAME INTO BEING.?

                 7. HE, THE FIRST ORIGIN OF THIS CREATION, WHETHER HE FORMED IT ALL OR DID NOT FORM IT.

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                    * WHOSE EYE CONTROLS THIS WORLD IN HIGHEST HEAVEN, HE VERILY KNOW IT, OR PERHAPS HE KNOWS NOT.

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                        TO BE SPECIFICALLY NOTED ARE THE NUMBER OF QUESTION MARKS AND THE FOURTH, SIXTH AND SEVENTH SHLOKAS, WHICH CAN BE RELATED TO THE PRACTICE OF YOGA.

                                           SHANTHI MANTRA

                      NOW LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT SOME OF THE SHANTI MANTRAS THAT OCCUR IN THE UPANISHADS, THE CORE AND ESSENCE OF THE VEDAS. THEY ARE MOSTLY ASSERTIONS, AFFIRMATIONS AND WISHES TO ASCEND SPIRITUALLY AND DERIVE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL STRENGTH TO ACHIEVE THE GOALS, RATHER THAN THROUGH PRAYERS TO AN ALMIGHTY CREATOR. MANY OF THEM END WITH THE SINCERE WISH FOR PEACE - SHANTI - AND THE WISH TO IMPROVE THE WORLD AND THE BEINGS THAT LIVE IN IT.

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                           ASATOMA SADGAMAYA

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            FROM THE UNREAL MAY I ASCEND TO THE REAL,

                    TAMASO MA JYOTIRGAMAYA

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           FROM DARKNESS, MAY I ASCEND TO LIGHT,

                   MRTYOR MA AMRTAM GAMAYA

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         FROM DEATH MAY I ASCEND TO DEATHLESSNESS,

                   OM SHANTI SHANTI SHANTIH

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           OM! PEACE, PEACE, PEACE.

THE YOGA SUTRAS

 

                                      

                                                                   THE YOGA

                         YOGA IS AN ANCIENT SCIENCE INCLUDED IN THE SIX DARSHANA'S OF TRADITIONAL INDIAN PHILOSOPHY. WHILE THE THEORETICAL CONCEPTS  ARE MOSTLY DERIVED FROM SANKHYA, THERE ARE A FEW DIFFERENCES, PARTICULARLY REGARDING THE CONCEPT OF ISHWARA. ONE IMPORTANT DIFFERENCE IS THAT WHILE SANKHYA OFFERS A PURELY PHILOSOPHICAL FRAMEWORK, YOGA WHILE USING SANKHYA TERMINOLOGY GOES INTO THE PRACTICAL STEPS OF ACHIEVING THE GOAL, WHICH SANKHYA ENVISAGES ONLY THEORETICALLY. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SANKHYA AND YOGA CAN BE COMPARED  TO THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. SCIENTIFIC THEORIES ARE ABSTRACT, WHILE TECHNOLOGY ACTUALISES SUCH THEORIES INTO TANGIBLE FINDINGS AND USEFUL RESULTS.

                       HOWEVER, TECHNOLOGY SOMETIMES EXPLOITS THE FINDINGS FOR NEFARIOUS AND DESTRUCTIVE  PURPOSES . IT IS TO OFFSET THIS DANGER THAT THE PRACTICE OF MORAL PRINCIPLES IS HARMONISED WITH THAT OF YOGA AT THE VERY BEGINNING. THE MOST IMPORTANT MORAL PRINCIPLE IS AHIMSA, OR NON-INJURY TO LIVING BEINGS, INCLUDING HUMANS. THE YOGI ACQUIRES TREMENDOUS ENERGY AND ALMOST UNLIMITED KNOWLEDGE AS THE PRACTICE FREES THE BRAIN OF BURDENS, DISTURBANCE AND CONFLICTS, RESULTING IN TRANQUILLITY AND ONEPOINTEDNESS. BY ADHERING TO MORAL PRINCIPLES, THE YOGI'S ENERGY AND KNOWLEDGE ARE NOT MISDIRECTED FOR SELFISH PURPOSES.

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                       * THE NATURAL PROPERTIES, AND PRIVILEGES OF A REASONABLE SOUL ARE, THAT SHE SEETH HERSELF, THAT SHE CAN ORDER, AND COMPOSE HERSELF, THAT SHE MAKES HERSELF AS SHE WILL HERSELF, THAT SHE REAPS HER OWN FRUITS WHATSOEVER, WHEREAS PLANTS, TREES, UNREASONABLE CREATURES, WHAT FRUIT SOEVER (BE IT EITHER FRUIT PROPERLY, OR ANALOGICALLY) THEY BEAR, THEY BEAR THEM UNTO OTHERS, AND NOT TO THEMSELVES. AGAIN, WHENSOEVER, AND WHERESOEVER, SOONER OR LATER, HER LIFE DOTH END, SHE HATH HER OWN END NEVERTHELSS, FOR IT IS NOT WITH HER, AS WITH DANCERS AND PLAYERS, WHO IF THEY BE INTERRUPTED IN ANY PART OF THEIR ACTION, THE WHOLE ACTION MUST NEEDS BE IMPERFECT.

                    * A PLEASANT SONG OR DANCE, THE PANCRATIAS'S EXERCISE, SPORTS THAT THOU ART WONT TO BE MUCH TAKEN WITH, THOU SHALT EASILY CONTEMN, IF THE HARMONIOUS VOICE THOU SHALT DIVIDE INTO SO MANY PARTICULAR SHALL ASK THYSELF, WHETHER THIS OR THAT SOUND IS IT, THAT DOTH SO CONQUER THEE. FOR THOU WILT BE ASHAMED OF IT. AND SO FOR SHAME. IF ACCORDINGLY THOU SHALT CONSIDER IT, EVERY PARTICULAR MOTION AND POSTURE BY ITSELF, AND SO FOR THE WRESTLER'S EXERCISE TOO. GENERALLY THEN, WHATSOEVER IT BE, BESIDES VIRTUE, AND THOSE THINGS THAT PROCEED FROM VIRTUE THAT THOU ART SUBJECT TO BE MUCH AFFECTED WITH, REMEMBER PRESENTLY THUS TO DIVIDE IT, AND BY THIS KIND OF DIVISION, IN EACH PARTICULAR TO ATTAIN UNTO THE CONTEMPT OF THE WHOLE. THIS THOU MUST TRANSFER AMD APPLY TO THY WHOLE LIFE ALSO.

                    * THAT SOUL WHICH IS EVER READY, EVEN NOW PRESENTLY (IF NEED BE) FROM THE BODY, WHETHER BY WAY OF EXTINCTION, OR DISPERSION, OR CONTINUATION IN ANOTHER PLACE AND ESTATE TO BE SEPARATED, HOW BLESSED AND HAPPY IS IT! BUT THIS READINESS OF IT, IT MUST PROCEED, NOT FROM AN OBSTINATE AND PEREMPTORY RESOLUTION OF THE MIND, VIOLENTLY AND PASSIONATELY SET UPON OPPOSITION, AS CHRISTIANS ARE WONT, BUT FROM A PECULIAR JUDGEMENT, WITH DISCRETION AND GRAVITY, SO THAT OTHERS MAY BE PERSUADED ALSO AND DRAWN TO THE LIKE EXAMPLE, BUT WITHOUT ANY NOISE AND PASSIONATE EXCLAMATIONS.

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                      HAVING COME SO FAR, THE READER WOULD HAVE, PERHAPS, FOUND THE ANSWER TO THE QUESTION - CAN YOGA BE PRACTISED BY AN ATHEIST OR AGNOSTIC? ANYONE WHO HAS TAKEN UP THE PRACTICE OF YOGA IS SURE TO BENEFIT IN MANY WAYS, ESPECIALLY IN FINDING TRANQUILLITY AND PEACE IN THIS TRUMULTUOUS WORLD AND IN BEING ABLE TO HARNESS TREMENDOUS ENERGY.

                       TO SUM UP, EXCELLENCE IN YOGA, THE SCIENCE OF EXPANSION OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND ACHIEVING FREEDOM FROM LIMITATIONS, HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ONE'S PERSONAL BELIEFS,  RELIGIOUS OR OTHERWISE. IT DEPENDS ENTIRELY ON THE STEP-BY-STEP PRACTICE OF THE METHODS DESCRIBED IN THE YOGA TEXTS AND GUIDANCE OF A PROPER AND AUTHENTIC EXPERTS. TO TAKE UP THE PRACTICE OF YOGA BASED ON HAVING READ UP AN OBSCURE TEXT, WITHOUT THE GUIDANCE OF AN EXPERT, IS GRAUGHT WITH DANGER, AND THE PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES CAN BE SERIOUS. IF, ON THE OTHER HAND, ONE IS PATIENT AND GOES AT IT CAREFULLY, TAKING UP ONLY THOSE PRACTICES THAT SUIT ONE'S PHYSICAL AND MENTAL CAPACITY, A GREAT NEW WORLD, VAST AND ALMOST UNLIMITED, OPENS UP BEFORE THE YOGI, WHO TURNS INTO ONE OF THE FINEST SPECIMENS OF HOMOSAPIENS, WITH AN INEXHAUSTIBLE FUND OF ENERGY AND A MIND AT PEACE. AN AUTHENTIC YOGA TEACHER, OPEN TO DIALOGUE AND NOT INTENT ON FORMING A CULT, WOULD BE IDEAL IN HELPING CUSTOMISE ONE'S YOGA PRACTICE.

                            NOT GIVING TOO MUCH IMPORTANCE TO A CREATOR GOD AND THE TILT TOWARDS ATHEISM IS NOT A LATER-DAY INVENTION, BUT IS ALREADY EVIDENT IN THE SANKHYA, THE WORKS OF THE SHRAVANAS AND THE BUDHDHISTS AND, TO A GREAT EXTENT, IN THE YOGA SUTRAS, ITSELF. MUCH BEFORE THE EPICS MADE THEIR APPEARANCE AND A BELIEF IN THE INCARNATIONS GOD BECAME ALMOST A CREED IN THE HINDU SYSTEMS OF THOUGHT, THE GREAT VEDIC HYMNS AND THE UPANISHADS LATER, CELEBRATED FREE THOUGHT AND A NON-CONFORMIST RATIONAL ATTITUDE.

UPS AND DOWNS OF OUR LIFE

 

                                            HOW WE SAW OUR LIFE?

              * UP AND DOWN, FROM ONE AGE TO ANOTHER GO, THE ORDINARY THINGS OF THE WORLD, BEINGS STILL THE SAME . AND EITHER OF EVERYTHING IN PARTICULAR BEFORE IT COME TO PASS, THE MIND OF THE UNIVERSE DOTH CONSIDER WITH ITSELF AND DELIBERATE, AND IF SO, THEN SUBMIT FOR SHAME UNTO THE DETERMINATION OF SUCH AN EXCELLENT UNDERSTANDING, OR ONCE FOR IT DID RESOLVE UPON ALL THINGS IN GENERAL, AND SINCE THAT WHATSOEVER HAPPENS, HAPPENS BY A NECESSARY CONSEQUENCE, AND ALL THINGS INDIVISIBLY IN A MANNER AND INSEPARABLY HOLD ONE OF ANOTHER. IN SUM, EITHER THERE IS FORTUNE, YET MAYEST THOU USE THINE OWN PROVIDENCE IN THOSE THINGS THAT CONCERN THEE PROPERLY, AND THEN ART THOU WELL.

              * WITHIN A WHILE THE EARTH SHALL COVER US ALL, AND THEN SHE HERSELF SHALL HAVE HER CHANGE. AND THEN THE COURSE WILL BE, FROM ONE PERIOD OF ETERNITY UNTO ANOTHER, AND SO A PERPETUAL ETERNITY. NOW CAN ANY MAN THAT SHALL CONSIDER WITH HIMSELF IN HIS MIND THE SEVERAL ROLLINGS OR SUCCESSIONS OF SO MANY CHANGES AND ALTERATIONS, AND THE SWIFTNESS OF ALL THESE RULINGS, CAN BE OTHERWISE BUT CONTEMN IN HIS HEART AND DESPISE ALL WORLDLY THINGS ? THE CAUSE OF THE UNIVERSE IS AS IT WERE A STRONG TORRENT, IT CARRIETH ALL AWAY.

                 * AND THESE YOUR PROFESSED POLITIANS, THE ONLY TRUE PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHERS OF THE WORLD, (AS THEY THINK OF THEMSELVES ) SO FULL OF AFFECTED GRAVITY, OR SUCH PROFESSED LOVERS OF VIRTUE AND HONESTY, WHAT WRETCHES BE THEY IN VERY DEED, HOW VILE AND CONTEMPTIBLE IN THEMSELVES? O MAN! WHAT ADO DOEST THOU KEEP? DO WHAT THEY NATURE DOTH NOW REQUIRE. RESOLVE UPON IT, IF THOU MAYEST, AND TAKE NO THOUGHT, WHETHER ANYBODY SHALL KNOW IT OR NO. YEA, BUT SAYEST THOU, I MUST NOT EXPECT A PLATO'S COMMONWEALTH. IF THEY PROFIT THOUGH NEVER SO LITTLE, I MUST BE CONTENT, AND THINK MUCH EVEN OF THAT LITTLE PROGRESS.

                     * WHAT ARE THEIR MINDS AND UNDERSTANDINGS , AND WHAT THE THINGS THAT THEY APPLY THEMSELVES UNTO, WHAT DO THEY LOVE, AND WHAT DO THEY HATE FOR? FANCY TO THYSELF THE ESTATE OF THEIR SOULS OPENLY TO BE SEEN WHEN THEY THINK THEY HURT THEM SHREWDLY, WHOM THEY SPEAK OFF, AND WHEN THEY THINK THEY DO THEM A VERY GOOD TURN, WHOM THEY COMMEND AND EXTOL, O HOW FULL ARE THEY THEN OF CONCEIT, AND OPINION!

                  * LOSS AND CORRUPTION, IS IN VERY DEED NOTHING ELSE BUT CHANGE AND ALTERATION, AND THAT IS IT, WHICH THE NATURE OF THE UNIVERSE DOTH MOST DELIGHT IN, BY WHICH, AND ACCORDING TO WHICH, WHATSOEVER IS DONE, IS WELL DONE. FOR THAT WAS THE ESTATE OF WORLDLY THINGS FROM THE BEGINNING, AND SO SHALL IT EVER BE. OR WOULDEST. THOU RATHER SAY, THAT ALL THINGS IN THE WORLD HAVE GONE ILL FROM THE BEGINNING FOR SO MANY AGES, AND SHALL EVER GO ILL? AND THEN AMONG SO MANY DEITIES, COULD NO DIVINE POWER BE FOUND ALL THIS WHILE, THAT COULD RECTIFY THE THINGS OF THE WORLD,  TO INCESSANT WOES AND MISERIES, FOREVER CONDEMNED?

                    * HOW BASE PUTRID, EVERY COMMON MATTER IS! WATER, DUST, AND FROM THE MIXTURE OF THESE BONES, AND ALL THAT LOATHSOME STUFF THAT OUR BODIES DO CONSIST OF , SO SUBJECT TO BE INFECTED, AND CORRUPTED. AND AGAIN THOSE OTHER THINGS THAT ARE SO MUCH PRIZED AND ADMIRED, AS MARBLE STONES, WHAT ARE THEY, BUT AS IT WERE THE KERNELS OF THE EARTH? GOD AND SILVER, WHAT ARE THEY, BUT AS THE MORE GROSS FAECES OF THE EARTH?  GOLD AND SILVER, WHAT ARE THEY, BUT AS THE MORE GROSS FAECES OF THE EARTH? THY MOST ROYAL APPAREL, FOR MATTER, IT IS BUT AS IT WERE THE HAIR OF A SILLY SHEEP, AND FOR COLOUR, THE VERY BLOOD OF A SHELL-FISH, OF THIS NATURE ARE ALL OTHER THINGS. THY LIFE ITSELF , IS SOME SUCH THING TOO, A MERE EXHALATION OF BLOOD, AND IT ALSO , APT TO BE CHANGED INTO SOME OTHER COMMON THING.

                        * WILL THIS QUERULOUSNESS, THIS MURMURING, THIS COMPLAINING AND  DISSEMBLING NEVER BE AT AN END? WHAT THEN IS IT, THAT TROUBETH THEE? DOTH ANY NEW THING HAPPEN UNTO THEE? WHAT DOEST THOU SO WONDER AT? AT THE CAUSE, OR THE MATTER? BEHOLD EITHER BY ITSELF, IS EITHER OF THAT WEIGHT AND MOMENT INDEED? AND BESIDES THESE, THERE IS NOT ANYTHING. BUT THT DUTY TOWARDS THE GODS ALSO, IT IS TIME THOU SHOULDST ACQUIT THYSELF OF IT WITH MORE GOODNESS AND SIMPLICITY.

                        * IT IS ALL ONE TO SEE THINGS FOR A HUNDRED OF YEARS TOGETHER OR BUT FOR THREE YEARS.

                      * IF HE HAVE SINNED, HIS IS THE HARM, NOT MINE. BUT PERCHANCE HE HATH NOT.

                    * EITHER ALL THINGS BY THE PROVIDENCE OF REASON HAPPE UNTO EVERY PARTICULAR, AS A PART OF ONE GENERAL BODY, AND THEN IT IS AGAINST REASON THAT A PART SHOULD COMPLAIN OF ANYTHING THAT HAPPENS FOR THE GOOD OF THE WHOLE, OR IF, ACCORDING TO EPICURUS, ATOMS BE THE CAUSE OF ALL THINGS AND THAT LIFE BE NOTHING ELSE BUT AN ACCIDENTARY CONFUSION OF THINGS, AND NOTHING ELSE, BUT A MERE DISPERSION AND SO OF ALL OTHER THINGS. WHAT DOEST THOU TROUBLE THYSELF FOR?

                   * SAYEST THOU UNTO THAT RAIONAL PART, THOU ART DEAD, CORRUPTION HATH TAKEN HOLD ON THEE? DOTH IT THEN ALSO VOID EXCREMENTS? DOTH IT LIKE EITHER OXEN, OR SHEEP, GRAZE OR FEED, THAT IT ALSO SHOULD BE MORTAL, AS WELL AS THE BODY?

WHAT IS THE MEANING OF DESIRE

 

                     

                                    THE POWER OF YOUR DESIRE

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                ❤       TO LIVE LONG. WHAT? TO ENJOY THE OPERATIONS OF A SENSITIVE SOUL, OR OF THE APPETITIVE FACULTY? OR WOULDST THOU GROW, AND THEN DECREASE AGAIN? WOULDST THOU LONG BE ABLE TO TALK, TO THINK AND REASON WITH THYSELF? WHICH OF ALL THESE SEEMS UNTO THEE A WORTHY OBJECT OF THY  DESIRE? NOW IF OF ALL THESE THOU DOEST FIND THAT THEY BE BUT LITTLE WORTH IN THEMSELVES, PROCEED ON UNTO THE LAST, WHICH IS, IN ALL THINGS TO FOLLOW GOD AND REASON. BUT FOR A MAN TO GRIEVE THAT BY DEATH HE SHALL BE DEPRIVED OF ANY OF THESE THINGS, IS BOTH AGAINST GOD AND REASON.

                 ❤           WHAT A SMALL PORTION OF VAST AND INFINITE ETERNITY IT IS, THAT IS ALLOWED UNTO EVERY ONE OF US, AND HOW SOON IT VANISHETH INTO THE GENERAL AGE OF THE WORLD, OF THE COMMON SUBSTANCE, AND OF THE COMMON SOUL ALSO WHAT A SMALL PORTION IS ALLOTTED UNTO US, AND IN WHAT A LITTLE CLOD OF THE WHOLE EARTH (AS IT WERE ) IT IS THAT THOU DOEST CRAWL. AFTER THOU SHALT RIGHTLY HAVE CONSIDERED THESE THINGS WITH THYSELF, FANCY NOT ANYTHING ELSE IN THE WORLD ANY MORE TO BE OF ANY WEIGHT AND MOMENT BUT THIS, TO DO THAT ONLY WHICH THINE OWN NATURE DOTH REQUIRE, AND TO CONFORM THYSELF TO THAT WHICH THE COMMON NATURE DOTH AFFORD.

                      ❤        WHAT IS THE PRESENT ESTATE OF MY UNDERSTANDING? FOR HEREIN LIETH ALL INDEED. AS FOR ALL OTHER THINGS, THEY ARE WITHOUT THE COMPASS OF MINE OWN WILL, AND IF WITHOUT THE COMPASS OF MY WILL, THEN ARE THEY AS DEAD THINGS UNTO ME, AND AS IT WERE SMOKE.

                     ❤          TO STIR UP A MAN TO THE CONTEMPT OF DEATH THIS AMONG OTHER THINGS, IS OF GOOD POWER AND EFFICACY, THAT EVEN THEY WHO ESTEEMED PLEASURE TO BE HAPPINESS, AND PAIN MISERY, DID NEVERTHELESS MANY OF THEM CONTEMN DEATH AS MUCH AS ANY. AND CAN DEATH TERRIBLE TO HIM, TO WHOM THAT ONLY SEEMS GOOD, WHICH IN THE ORDINARY COURSE OF NATURE IS SEASONABLE? TO HIM, TO WHOM, WHETHER HIS ACTIONS BE MANY OR FEW, SO THEY BE ALL GOOD, IS ALL ONE, AND WHO WHETHER  HE BOHOLD THE THINGS OF THE WORLD BEING ALWAYS THE SAME EITHER FOR MANY YEARS, OR FOR FEW YEARS OLY IS ALLTOGETHER INDIFFERENT?

WHAT IS GOING ON OUR LIFE?

 

                         

                                 THE GOD'S SCRIPT 

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                      👉❤     THE MATTER ITSELF, OF WHICH THE UNIVERSE DOTH CONSISTS, IS OF ITSELF VERY TRACTABLE AND PLIABLE. THAT RATIONAL ESSENCE THAT DOTH GOVERN IT, HATH IN ITSELF NO CAUSE TO DO EVIL. IT HAS NO EVIL IN ITSELF, NEITHER CAN IT DO ANYTHING THAT IS EVIL. NEITHER CAN ANYTHING BE HURT BY IT. AND ALL THINGS ARE DONE AND DETERMINED ACCORDING TO ITS WILL AND PRESCRIPT.

                       👉❤   BE IT ALL ONE UNTO THEE, WHETHER HALF FROZEN OR WELL WARM, WHETHER ONLY SLUMBERING, OR AFTER A FULL SLEEP, WHETHER DISCOMMENDED OR COMMENDED THOU DO THEY THY DUTY, OR WHETHER DYING OR DOING SOMEWHAT ELSE, FOR THAT ALSO "DO DIE", MUST AMONG THE REST BE RECKONED AS ONE OF THE DUTIES AND ACTIONS OF OUR LIVES.

                      👉❤         LOOK IN, LET NOT EITHER THE PROPER QUALITY, OR THE TRUE WORTH OF ANYTHIG PASS THEE, BEFORE THOU HAST FULLY APPREHENDED IT.

                     👉❤      ALL SUBSTANCES COME SOON TO THEIR CHANGED, AND EITHER THEY SHALL BE RESOLVED BY WAY OF EXHALATION (IF SO BE THAT ALL THINGS SHALL BE REUNITED INTO ONE SUBSTANCE), OR AS OTHERS MAINTAIN, THEY SHALL BE SCATTERED AND DISPERSED. AS FOR THE RATIONAL ESSENCE BY WHICH ALL THINGS ARE GOVERNED, AS IT BEST UNDERSTANDETH ITSELF, BOTH ITS OWN DISPOSITION, AND WHAT IT DOTH, AND WHAT MATTER IT HATH TO DO WITH AND ACCORDINGLY DOTH ALL THINGS, SO WE THAT DO NOT, NO WONDER, IF WE WONDER AT MANY THINGS, THE REASONS WHEREOF WE CANNOT COMPREHEND.

                      👉❤        THE BEST KIND OF REVENGE IS, NOT TO BECOME LIKE UNTO HIM.

                      👉❤      LET THIS BE THY ONLY JOY, AND THY ONLY COMFORT, FROM ONE SOCIABLE KIND ACTION WITHOUT INTERMISSION TO PASS UNTO ANOTHER, GOD BEING EVER IN THY MIND. 

   

                      👉❤    THE RATIONAL COMMANDING PART, AS IT ALONE CAN STIR UP AND TURN ITSELF, SO IT MAKETH BOTH ITSELF TO BE, AND EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENETH, TO APPEAR UNTO ITSELF, AS IT WILL ITSELF.

                      👉❤   ACCORDING TO THE NATURE OF THE UNIVERSE ALL THINGS PARTICULAR ARE DETERMINED, NOT ACCORDING TO ANY OTHER NATURE, EITHER ABOUT COMPARRING AND CONTAINING, OR WITHIN, DISPERSED AND CONTAINED, OR WITHOUT, DEPENDING, EITHER THIS UNIVERSE IS A MERE CONFUSED MASS, AND AN INTRICATE CONTEXT OF THINGS, WHICH SHALL IN TIME BE SCATTERED AND DISPERSED AGAIN, OR IT IS AN UNION CONSISTING OF ORDER, AND ADMINISTERED BY PROVIDENCE. IF THE FIRST, WHY SHOULD I DESIRE TO CONTINUE ANY LONGER ON THIS FORTUIT CONFUSION AND COMMIXTION? OR WHY SHOULD I TAKE CARE FOR ANYTHING ELSE, BUT THAT AS SOON AS MAY BE I MAY BE EARTH AGAIN? AND WHY SHOULD I TROUBLE MYSELF ANY MORE WHILST I SEEK TO PLEASE THE GODS? WHATSOEVER I DO, DISPERSION IS MY END, AND WILL COME UPON ME WHETHER I WILL OR NOT. BUT IF THE LATTER BE, THEN AM NOT I RELIGIOUS IN VAIN, THEN WILL I BE QUIET AND PATIENT, AND PUT MY TRUST IN HIM, WHO IS THE GOVERNOR OF ALL.

                       👉❤  WHENSOEVER BY SOME PRESENT HARD OCCURENCES THOU ART CONSTRAINED TO BE IN SOME SORT TROUBLED AND VEXED, RETURN UNTO THYSELF AS SOON AS MAY BE, AND BE NOT OUT OF TUNE LONGER THAN THOU MUST NEED. FOR , SO SHALT THOU BE THE BETTER ABLE TO KEEP THY PART ANOTHER TIME, AND TO MAINTAIN THE HARMONY, IT THOU DOST USE THYSELF TO THIS CONTINUALLY, ONCE OUT, PRESENTLY TO HAVE RECOURSE UNTO IT, AND TO BEGIN AGAIN.

                        👉❤   IF IT WERE THAT THOU HADST AT ONE TIME BOTH A STEPMOTHER, AND A NATURAL MOTHER LIVING, THOU WOULDST HONOUR AND RESPECT HER ALSO, NEVERTHELESS TO THINE OWN NATURAL MOTHER WOULD THY REFUGE, AND RECOURSE BE CONTINUALLY. SO LET THE COURT AND THY PHILOSOPHY BE UNTO THEE, AND THOU ALSO IN THOSE THINGS NOT INTOLERABLE UNTO OTHERS.

                           👉❤   DEATH IS A CESSATION FROM THE IMPRESSION OF THE SENSES, THE TYRANNY OF THE PASSIONS, THE ERRORS OF THE MIND, AND THE SERVITUDE OF THE BODY.

   

                           👉❤   WHATSOEVER IN ANY KIND DOTH HAPPEN TO ANYONE, IS EXPEDIENT TO THE WHOLE. AND THUS MUCH TO CONTENT US MIGHT SUFFICE, THAT IT IS EXPEDIENT FOR THE WHOLE IN GENERAL. BUT YET THIS ALS SHALT THOU GENERALLY PERCEIVE, IF THOU DOST DILIGENTLY TAKE HEED, THAT WHATSOEVER DOTH HAPPEN TO ANYONE MAN OR MEN. AND NOW I AM CONTENT THAT THE WORD EXPEDIENT, SHOULD MORE GENERALLY BE UNDERSTOOD OF THOSE THINGS INDIFFERENT, AS HEALTH, WEALTH, AND THE LIKE.

                             👉❤   AS THE ORDINARY SHOWS OF THE THEATRE AND OF OTHER SUCH PLACES, WHEN THOU ART PRESENTED WITH THEM, AFFECT THEE, AS THE SAME THINGS STILL SEEN, AND IN THE SAME FASHION, MAKE THE SIGHT UNGRATEFUL AND TEDIOUS, SO MUST ALL THE THINGS THAT WE SEE ALL OUR LIFE LONG AFFECT US. FOR ALL THINGS, ABOVE THE BELOW, ARE STILL THE SAME, AND FROM THE SAME CAUSES. WHEN THEN WILL THERE BE AN END?

HOW TO DEVELOPE YOUR SKILLS

 

                 

                            THE EMOTIONAL SKILLS

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                     * IDENTIFYING AND LABELING FEELINGS

                     * EXPRESSING FEELINGS

                     *ASSESSING THE INTENSITY OF FEELINGS

                     *MANAGING OTHERS

                     * DELAYING IMPULSES

                     * CONTROLLING IMPULSES

                     * REDUCING STRESS

                     * KNOWING THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FEELINGS 

                         AND ACTIONS

                    COGNITIVE SKILLS

                * SELF-TALK - CONDUCTING AN "INNER DIALOGUE " AS A WAY TO COPE WITH A TOPIC OR CHALLENGE OR REINFORCE ONE'S OWN BEHAVIOR.

                 * READING AND INTERPRETING SOCIAL CUES - FOR EXAMPLE, RECOGNIZING SOCIAL INFLUENCES ON BEHAVIOR AND SEEING ONESELF IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE LARGER COMMUNITY.

                 * USING STEPS FOR PROBLEM-SOVING AN DECISION - MAKING - FOR INSTANCE, CONTROLLING, IMPULSES, SETTING GOALS, IDENTIFYING ALTERNATIVE ACTIONS, ACTICIPATING CONSEQUENCES.

                 * UNDERSTANDING THE PERSPECTIVE OF OTHERS' 

         

                 * UNDERSTANDING BEHAVIORAL NORMS (WHAT IS AND IS NOT ACCEPTABLE BEHAVIOR)

                 * A POSITIVE ATTITUDE TOWARD LIFE

 

                 * SELF-AWARENESS - FOR EXAMPLE, DEVELOPING REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS ABOUT ONESELF

                              BEHAVIORAL SKILLS

                     * NONVERBAL - COMMUNICATING THROUGH EYE CONTACT, FACIAL EXPRESSIVENESS, TONE OF VOICE, GESTURES, AND SO ON

                   * VERBAL - MAKING CLEAR REQUESTS, RESPONDING EFFECTIVELY TO CRITICISM, RESISTING NEGATIVE INFLUENCES, LISTENING TO OTHERS, PARTICIPATING IN POSITIVE PEER GROUPS.

               👉         ORGANIZING GROUPS - THE ESSENTIAL SKILL OF THE LEADER, THIS INVOLVES INITIATING AND COORDINATING THE EFFORTS OF A NETWORK OF PEOPLE. THIS IS THE TALENT SEEN IN THEATRE DIRECTORS OR PRODUCERS, IN MILITARY OFFICERS, AND IN EFFECTIVE HEADS OF ORGANIZATIONS AND UNITS OF ALL KINDS, ON THE PLAYGROUND, THIS IS THE CHILD WHO TAKES THE LEAD IN DECIDING WHAT EVERYONE WILL PLAY, OR BECOMES TEAM CAPTAIN.

                 👉             NEGOTIATING SOLUTION - THE TALENT OF THE MEDIATOR, PREVENTING CONFLICTS OR RESOLVING THOSE THAT FLARE UP. PEOPLE WHO HAVE THIS ABILITY EXCEL IN DEALMAKING, IN ARBITRATINGOR MEDIATING DISPUTES, THEY MIGHT HAVE A CAREER IN DIPLOMACY, IN ARBITRATION OR LAW, OR AS MIDDLEMENT OR MANAGERS OF TAKEOVERS. THESE ARE KIDS WHO SETTLE ARGUMENTS ON THE PLAYING FIELD.

                 👉          PERSONAL CONNECTION - ROGERS' TALENT, THAT OF EMPATHY AND CONNECTING, THIS MAKES IT EASY TO ENTER INTO AN ENCOUNTER OR TO RECOGNIZE AND RESPOND PEOPLE MAKE GOOD "TEAM PLAYERS" DEPENDABLE SPOUSES, GOOD FRIENDS OR BUSINESS PARTNERS, IN THE BUSINESS WORLD THEY DO WELL AS SALESPEOPLE OR MANAGERS, OR CAN BE EXCELLENT TEACHERS. CHILDREN LIKE ROGER GET ALONG WELL WITH VIRTUALLY EVERYONE ELSE, EASILY ENTER INTO PLAYING WITH THEM, AND ARE HAPPY DOING SO. THESE CHILDREN TEND TO BE BEST AT READING EMOTIONS FROM FACIAL EXPRESSIONS AND ARE MOST LIKED BY THEIR CLASSMATES.

                  👉       SOCIAL ANALYSTS - BEING ABLE TO DETECT AND HAVE INSIGHTS ABOUT PEOPLE'S FEELINGS, MOTIVES, AND CONCERNS. THIS KNOWLEDGE OF HOW OTHERS FEEL CAN LEAD TO AN EASY INTIMACY OR SENSE OF RAPPORT. AT ITS BEST, THIS ABILITY MAKES ONE A COMPETENT THERAPIST OF COUNSELOR - OR, IF COMBINED WITH SOME LITERALLY TALENT, A GIFTED NOVELIST OR DRAMATIST.

MILLIONS OF GALAXIES

                                THE SOLAR SYSTEM

                     DOOMSDAY OF THE OVERALL SOLAR SYSTEM IS SUPPOSED TO BE A SEPARATE EVENT FROM EARTH'S DOOMSDAY. PROBABLY, THE MOST SIGNIFICANT EVEN RELATED TO THE DOOMSDAY OF SOLAR SYSTEM. , AS SEEN FROM THE HOLY QURAN, IS THAT THE SUN WILL DRIFT AWAY FROM ITS PRESENT POSITION IN THE GALAXY, WHERE IT HAS BEEN TO HAVE FIXED ORBIT, COMPLETING ONE CYCLE IN ABOUT 250 MILLION YEARS. THIS MAY BE INITIATED WITH SOME NEARBY DISTURBANCE IN SPACE. EVENTUALLY, THE SUN MAY STRIKE WITH SOME OTHER HEAVENLY BODY AND DESTROYED FOR EVER.

                    IT IS WORTHWHILE TO NOTE THAT A FEW CENTURIES AGO, PEOPLE USED TO THINK OF THE SUN AS A STATIONARY OBJECT IN THE HEAVENS. EVEN COUPERNICUS HAD BUILD HIS REVOLUTIONARY THEORY OF THE EARTH REVOLVING AROUND THE SUN ON THE ASSUMPTION THAT THE SUN WAS STATIONARY AND MEN OF SCIENCE BELIEVED THIS TO BE TRUE FOR MORE THAN TWO CENTURIES. BUT THE HOLY QURAN TWELVE CENTURIES BEFORE COUPERNICUS, HAD CLEARLY DESCRIBED THE TRAVEL OF THE SUN IN SPACE IN SPACE IN THE FOLLOWING VERSE.

                               AND THE SUN

                               KEEPS ON RUSHING (IN SPACE)

                              ON A SET PATH,

                             ACCORDING TO THE PRE-FIXED

                             MEASUREMENT OF THE MOST POWERFUL, THE WISE.

                           THE UNIVERSE CONSISTS OF MILLIONS OF GALAXIES. OUR MILKY IS JUST ONE OUT OF ALL THOSE MILLIONS. IN IT ARE TRILLIONS OF STARS LIKE OUR SUN. EACH SUN HAS SEVERAL PLANNETS. THE DOOMSDAY OF EACH OF THESE WORLDS IS A SEPARATE EVENT. THE SPIRAL SHAPE SHOWS THAT ONCE ALL THIS MASS WAS CONCENTRATED AT THE CENTRE OF THE GALAXY. SOME DAY IT WILL ROLL BACK AND DESTROY ITSELF, FOLLOWING THE GENERAL PRINCIPLE OF CREATION, EVOLUTION AND DESTRUCTION GIVEN IN THE QURANIC VERSE 21.

                       THE SUN KEEPS ON RUSHING THROUGH SPACE ON ITS PREDESTINED COURSE AL-QURAN 36. AT A SPEED OF ABOUT 200 MILES PER SECOND, COVERING 6.3*10 MILES A YEAR WHICH IS 66 TIMES THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THE EARTH AND THE SUN. NOT MUCH IS KNOWN ABOUT THE NATURE OF THIS MOTION. IS IT REALLY A STRAIGHT LINE, OR ARE WE SWINGING AROUND IN SOME SUPPER ORBIT, CETRE OF WHICH IS HOT YET KNOWN? IN A WAY THIS IS A HOZARDOUS JOURNEY IN THE HEAVENS WHICH HORSE AS MANY AS OVER A BILLION GALAXIES AND TRILLION OF TRILLIONS OF STARS, PLANETS AND OTHER TYPES OF HEAVENLY BODIES. THE POSSIBILITY OF A CRASH CANNOT BE RULED OUT WHICH MAY BRING ITS DOOMSDAY SUDDENLY.

                      ABOUT THE MOTION OF THE SUN THROUGH SPACE, THE QURAN HAD SAID FOURTEEN CENTURIES EARLIER.

                          AND THE SUN,

                          IT RUNS IN AN ORBIT OF ITS OWN,

                          (AND) THAT IS LAID DOWN BY THE WILL

                          OF THE ALMIGHTY,

                          THE ALL-KNOWING".

             

              IN THIS CONTRAST THE HOLY QURAN POINTS OUT THAT NEAR THE SOLAR DOOMSDAY, SOMETHING SUDDEN WILL HAPPEN WHICH WILL THROW THE SUN OUT OF ITS NORMAL PATH, CREATING OVERALL CHAOS IN THIS PART OF THE COSMOS. THIS IS SEEN FROM THE FOLLOWING VERSES.

                             (THE DAY) WHEN 

                                THE SUN IS OVERTHROWN,

                         AND WHEN THE STARS FALL LOOSING THEIR LIGHT,

                                AND WHEN THE MOUNTAINS, FLY OUT THEIR POSITIONS,

                          THE EVENTS MENTIONED IN THESE VERSES REPRESENT A CATASTROPHY OF GREAT MAGNITUDE, INVOLVING NOT ONLY SUN BUT MANY STARS. IT WILL BE A SYSTEMS. IT MAY EVEN SET A CHAIN REACTION, WHERE, STAR AFTER STAR HAVE THEIR DOOMSDAY AND ARE DESTROYED.

WHAT WE WILL DO BEFORE DEATH (QURAN SAYS)

 

                     

                             THE LIFE AFTER DEATH

                     

                            YOUR CREATION AND YOUR RESURRECTION

                             IS BUT LIKE THAT OF A SINGLE SELF.

                             VERILY HE IS THE ALL-HEARING AND SEEING.

                     PEOPLE ON THE DAY OF RESURRECTION WILL THINK THAT THEY HAVE BEEN SLEEPING FOR ONLY A WHILE, AND HAD BEEN WOKEN UP. AND IT WILL BE A CONTROVERSIAL ISSUE FOR THEM. AN EXAMPLE OF THIS IS IN OUR OWN WORLDLY LIFE. WHEN WE LOOK BACK, IT SEEMS BUT A VERY SHORT PERIOD.

                    THE HOLY QURAN ILLUSTRATES THIS WITH THE FOLLOWING DESCRIPTION OF THE TYPE OF CONVERSATION AMONG THE PEOPLE AT THEIR RESURRECTION.

                               THE GUILTY WILL VOW THAT THEY DID TARRY

                            BUT AN HOUR,

                            BUT THOSE TO WHOM KNOWLEDGE AND FAITH,

                            ARE GIVEN, WILL SAY,

                           THE TRUTH IS, YE HAVE TARRIED BY ALLAH'S

                           DECREE UNTIL THE DAY OF RESURRECTION

                          THIS IS THE DAY OF RESURRECTION,

                           BUT YE USED NOT TO BELIEVE".

            THE DAY OF RESURRECTION IS THE DAY OF GATHERING TOGETHER OF ALL THE GENERATIONS OF MANKIND FROM ALL THE WORLDS, FROM ALL THE TIMES. THAT IS THE DAY OF ACCOUNTABILITY ALSO. THERE IS HARDLY ANY PAGE OF THE HOLY QURAN, WHICH DOES NOT WARN MANKIND OF THEIR RESURRECTION AND THEIR ACCOUTABILITY IN THE LIFE-AFTER-DEATH. "THE EMISSARIS" OF THE HOLY QURAN , IS A POWERFUL REMINDER OF THE SCENARIO OF THE DAY OF RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE-AFTER-DEATH. IT SAYS:

                     THIS IS THE DAY OF DECISION,

                           WE HAVE BROUGHT YOU

                  AND THE MEN OF OLD TOGETHER.

                         IF NOW YE HAVE ANY WIT, OUTWIT ME,'               

                 WOE UNTO THE REPUDIATORS ON THE DAY

                          LO! THOSE WHO KEPT THEIR DUTY

                 ARE A MID SHADE AND FOUNTAINS,

                        AND FRUITS SUCH AS THEY DESIRE.

                 (UNTO THEM IT IS SAID)

                        EAT, DRINK, AND WELCOME,

                  O YE BLESSED, IN RETURN FOR WHAT YE DID,

                       THUS DO WE REWARD THE GOOD.

 

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                         ALL PRAISE IS FOR ALLAH,

                                  THE SUSTAINER AND NOURISHER OF

                        THE WORLD,

                                   THE OUTRIGHT BENEFICIENT AND,

                        MERCIFUL ALWAYS".

                      THE WHOLE SCENARIO OF EXISTENCE HAS BEEN CLASSIFIED INTO THREE CATEGORIES, I.E.THE HEAVENS, THE EARTH, AND OTHER WORLDS. ALLAH NOURISHES AND SUSTAINS THESE WORLDS AS HE SUSTAINS AND NOURISHES OUR EARTH. SINCE, NOURISHMENT IS ASSOCIATED WITH LIFE, THEREFORE, ONE CAN CONCLUDE FROM VERSE45 THAT OUR EARTH IS NOT BE THE ONLY LIVING WORLD IN THE UNIVERSE. THERE ARE MANY MORE WORLDS WHICH HAVE LIVING BEINGS, NEEDING NOURISHMENT FROM THEIR CREATOR. HE NOURISHES THEM AND SUSTAINS THEM AS HE LOOK AFTER OUR NEEDS ON THE EARTH.

                       AS FOR THE NATURE OF THESE WORLDS, FROM VERSE 65, IT APPEARS THAT THEY ARE SIMILAR TO OUR EARTH.

                                  ALLAH IT IS, WHO HAS CREATED,'                

                                SEVEN HEAVENS,

                               AND OF THE EARTH, THE LIKE THEREOF,

                               THE (SAME) COMMANDMENT COMES DOWN

                               AMONG THEM GRADUALLY

                              SO THAT YE MAY KNOW THAT

                             ALLAH IS ABLE TO DO ALL THINGS, AND THAT 

                            ALLAH SURROUNDS ALL THINGS IN KNOWLEDGE.

                     IT IS OBVIOUS FROM THE VERSE THAT JUST AS THERE ARE MANY HEAVENS, SIMILARLY THERE ARE MANY EARTHS. THE COMMANDANT COMES DOWN AMONG THEM GRADUALLY". MEANS THAT ALL OF THEM FOLLWO THE SAME PATTERN OF EVOLUATION AND DEVELOPMENT.

                     PRESENCE OF THE INTELLIGENT LIVING BEINGS IN THE OUTER SPACE IS ALSO EVIDENT FROM VERSE 55, WHICH INFORMS THAT EVERYONE, THAT IS IN THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH SEEK THEIR NEEDS FROM ALLAH.

                        OF HIM SEEKS (ITS NEED)

                        EACH ONE IN THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH,

                        EVERYDAY, HE APPEARS IN

                       NEW SPLENDOUR".

                              EVERYDAY HE APPEARS IN NEW SPLENDOUR" MEANS THAT, NEW WORLDS ARE CONTINUOUSLY BEING ADDED TO THE UNIVERSE, BEFITTING FOR CARRYING LIFE. THEY ALL DEPEND ON ALLAH FOR THEIR LIVING AND IN THEIR TURN, EACH ONE OF THEM WILL HAVE ITS OWN DOOMSDAY. IN THE END, ALL OF THEM WILL BE GATHERED TOGETHER AT THE TIME OF THE RESURRECTION.

HOW TO LIVE HAPPY LIFE ?

 

                                THE TIPS FOR THE HAPPY LIFE

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                               👉      MAN, GOD , THE WORLD, EVERY ONE IN THEIR KIND, BEAR SOME FRUITS. ALL THINGS HAVE THEIR PROPER TIME TO BEAR. THOUGH BY CUSTOM, THE WORD ITSELF IS IN A MANNER BECOME PROPER UNTO THE VINE, AND THE LIKE, YET IS IT SO NEVERTHELESS, AS WE HAVE SAID. AS FOR REASON, THAT BEARETH BOTH COMMON FRUIT FOR THE USE OF OTHERS, AND PECULIAR, WHICH ITSELF DOTH ENJOY. REASON IS OF A DIFFUSIVE NATURE, WHAT ITSELF IS IN ITSELF, IT BEGETS IN OTHERS, AND SO DOTH MULTIPLY.

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                                👉        EITHER TEACH THEM BETTER IF IT BE IN THY POWER, OR IF IT BE NOT, REMEMBER THAT FOR THIS USE, TO BEAR WITH THEM PATIENTLY, WAS MILDNESS AND GOODNESS GRANTED UNTO THEE. THE GODS THEMSELVES ARE GOOD UNTO SUCH, YEA  AND IN SOME THINGS, (AS IN MATTER OF HEALTH, OF WEALTH, OF HONOUR) ARE CONTENT OFTEN TO FURTHER THEIR ENDEAVOURS, SO GOOD AND GRACIOUS ARE THEY. AND MIGHTEST THOU NOT BE SO TOO? OR , TELL ME, WHAT DOTH HINDER THEE?

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                                👉           AS ONE WHO IS ALTOGETHER GOVERNED BY NATURE, LET IT BE THY CARE TO OBSERVE WHAT IT IS THAT NATURE IS GENERAL DOTH REQUIRE. THAT DONE, IF THOU FIND NOT THAT THY NATURE, AS THOU ART A LIVING SENSIBLE CREATURE, WILL BE HE WORSE FOR IT, THOU MAYEST PROCEED. NEXT THEN THOU MUST EXAMINE, WHAT THY NATURE AS THOU ART A LIVING SENSIBLE CREATURE, DOTH REQUIRE. AND THAT, WHATSOEVER IT BE, THOU  MAYEST ADMIT OF AND DO IT, IF THY NATURE AS THOU ART A REASONABLE LIVING CREATURE, WILL NOT BE THE WORSE FOR IT. NOW WHATSOEVER IS REASONABLE, IS ALSO SOCIABLE. KEEY THYSELF TO THESE RULES, AND TROUBLE, NOT THYSELF ABOUT IDLE THINGS.

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                                  👉          WHATSOEVER DOTH HAPPEN UNTO THEE, THOU ART NATURALLY BY THY NATURAL CONSTITUTION EITHER ABLE, OR NOT ABLE TO BEAR. IF THOU BEEST ABLE, BE NOT OFFENED, BUT BEAR IT ACCORDING TO THY NATURAL CONSTITUTION, OR AS NATURE HATH ENABLED THEE. IF THOU BEEST NOT ABLE, BE NOT OFFENED. FOR IT WILL SOON MAKE AN END OF THEE, AND ITSELF, (WHATSOEVER IT BE) AT THE SAME TIME END WITH THEE. BUT REMEMBER, THAT WHATSOEVER BY THE STRENGTH OF OPINION, GROUNDED UPON A CERTAIN APPREHENSION OF BOTH TRUE PROFIT AND DUTY, THOU CANST CONCEIVE TOLERABLE, THAT THOU ART ABLE TO BEAR THAT BY THY NATURAL CONSTITUTION.

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                                   👉         HIM THAT OFFENDS, TO TEACH WITH UNTO THEE, IT IS THAT WHICH FROM ALL TIME WAS APPOINTED UNTO THEE. FOR BY THE SAME COHERENCE OF CAUSES, BY WHICH THY SUBSTANCE FROM ALL ETERNITY WAS APPOINTED TO BE, WAS ALSO WHATSOEVER SHOULD HAPPEN UNTO IT, DESTINATED AND APPOINTED.

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                                   👉        AS THE SPIDER, WHEN IT HATH CAUGHT THE FLY THAT IT HUNTED AFTER, IS  NOT LITTLE PROUD, NOR MEANLY CONCEITED OF HERSELF, AS HE LIKEWISE THAT HATH CAUGHT AN HARE, OR HATH TAKEN A FISH WITH HIS NET, AS ANOTHER FOR THE TAKING OF A BOAR, AND ANOTHER OF A BEAR, SO MANY THEY BE PROUD, AND APPLAUD THEMSELVES FOR THEIR VALIANT ACTS AGAINST THE SARMATAI, OR NORTHERN NATIONS LATELY DEFEATED. FOR THESE ALSO, THESE FAMOUS SOLDIERS AND WARLIKE MEN, IF THOU DOST LOOK INTO THEIR MINDS AND OPINIONS, WHAT DO THEY FOR THE MOST PART BUT HUNT AFTER PREY?

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                                 👉          TO FIND OUT, AND SET TO THYSELF SOME CERTAIN WAY AND METHOD OF CONTEMPLATION, WHEREBY THOU MAYEST CLEARLY DISCERN AND REPRESENT UNTO THYSELF, THE MUTUAL CHANGE OF ALL THINGS, THE ONE INTO THE OTHER. BEAR IT IN THY MIND EVERMORE, AND SEE THAT THOU BE THOROUGHLY WELL EXERCISED IN THIS PARTICULAR. FOR THERE IS NOT ANYTHING MORE EFFECTUAL TO BEGET TRUE MAGNANIMITY.

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                             👉        GIVE WHAT THOU WILT, AND TAKE AWAY WHAT THOU WILT, SAITH HE THAT IS WELL TAUGHT AND TRULY MODEST, TO HIM THAT GIVES, AND TAKES AWAY. TAUGHT AND TRULY MODEST, TO HIM THAT GIVES AND TAKES AWAY. AND IT IS NOT OUT OF A STOUT AND PEREMPTORY RESOLUTION, THAT HE SAITH IT, BUT IN MERE LOVE, AND HUMBLE SUBMISSION.

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                     👉      SO LIVE AS INDIFFERENT TO THE WORLD AND ALL WORLDLY OBJECTS, AS ONE WHO LIVETH BY HIMSELF ALONE UPON SOME DESERT HIM. FOR WHETHER HERE, OF THERE, IF THE WHOLE WORLD BE BUT AS ONE TOWN, IT MATTERS NOT MUCH FOR THE PLACE. LET THEM BEHOLD AND SEE A MAN. THAT IS A MAN INDEED, LIVING ACCORDING TO THE TRUE NATURE OF MAN. IF THEY CANNOT BEAR WITH ME, LET THEM KILL ME. FOR BETTER WERE IT TO DIE, THAN SO TO LIVE AS THEY WOULD HAVE THERE.

      

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                             👉  MAKE IT NOT ANY LONGER A MATTER OF DISPUTE OR DISCOURSE, WHAT ARE THE SIGNS AND PROPRIETIES OF A GOOD MAN, BUT REALLY AND ACTUALLY TO BE SUCH.

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                                👉  EVER TO REPRESENT UNTO THYSELF, AND TO SET BEFORE THEE, BOTH THE GENERAL AGE AND TIME OF THE WORLD, AND THE WHOLE SUBSTANCE OF IT. AND HOW ALL THINGS PARTICULAR IN RESPECT OF THESE ARE FOR THEIR SUBSTANCE, AS ONE OF THE LEAST SEEDS THAT IS, AND FOR THEIR DURATION, AS THE TURNING OF THE PESTLE IN THE MORTAR ONCE ABOUT. THEN TO FIX THY MIND UPON EVERY PARTICULAR OBJECT OF THE WORLD, AND TO CONCEIVE IT, (AS IT IS INDEED), AS ALREADY BEING IN THE STATE OF DISSOLUTION, AND OF CHANGE, TENDING TO SOME KIND OF EITHER PUTREFACTION OR DISPERSION, OR WHATSOEVER ELSE IT IS, THAT IS THE DEATH AS IT WERE OF EVERYTHING IN HIS OWN KIND.

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                            👉  USE THYSELF, AS OFTEN, AS THOU SEEST ANY MAN DO ANYTHING, PRESENTLY (IF IT BE POSSIBLE) TO SAY UNTO THYSELF, WHAT IS THIS MAN'S END IN THIS HIS ACTION? BUT BEGIN THIS COURSE WITH THYSELF FIRST OF ALL. AND DILIGENTLY EXAMINE THYSELF CONCERNING WHATSOEVER THOU DOEST.

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                    👉 WHATSOEVER IT IS THAT THOU GOES ABOUT, CONSIDER OF IT BY THYSELF, AND ASK THYSELF, WHAT? BECAUSE I SHALL DO THIS NO MORE WHEN I AM DEAD, SHOULD THEREFORE DEATH SEEM GRIEVOUS UNTO ME?

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