Thought Of The Moment!

[aristotle]

Kabirdas's dohas are one of my favourites, they rank next to Bihari Satsayi. Also to mention, these dohas now edited into a single corpus of Kabir Granthavali are not the work of a single person, but of multiple identities writing under the seal of Kabir at different times in the Kabirpanthi history. It is safe to assume that the verses in Guru Granth Sahib are the most authentic ones. Also, you will notice a leaning towards Awadhi and local Gangetic dialects in Kabirdas's poetry as compared to bani of Bhagat Kabir of Guru Granth Sahib.

 

[spnadmin]

aristotle ji


Many thanks for giving us background on the Kabirgranthvaali. Thought of the Moment really should not turn into "Kabir Vaars" and we probably could use a separate thread just for that topic. It is popular. It is also important to make note that everything written by Kabir or his namesakes is not in SGGS. So thanks for that also.

New thread will probably go into the Punjabyat section later today.

 

[sandeep17oct]

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

Lao Tzu

 

[aristotle]

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
- Martin Luther

 

[Admin]

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage ...
- Anaïs Nin

 

[Ishna]

Sikhi is like one of those Autostereogram pictures (magic "3D" pictures from the 90's). You only get the real picture with proper 'viewing technique'. Guru Sahib teaches that technique but maybe not everyone 'gets it'.

 

[Admin]

When life is dragging you back with difficulties, it means that its going to launch you into victory!

 

[jaginder]

The problem with logic is everybody seem to have their own...

 

[sandeep17oct]

This is the first lesson to learn: be determined not to curse anything outside, not to lay the blame upon anyone outside, but stand up, lay the blame on yourself. You will find that is always true. Get hold of yourself.
Swami Vivekanand

 

[aristotle]

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

-Paul Valery

 

[Ishna]

"Secondly, the highest common factor of the traditional approaches is the pre-dominance of the reductive methodology with the fallacy of import of meanings. Our traditional interpreters have tried to seek meanings of various concepts of Sikhism not within the framework of its own metaphysical co-ordinates, but in the contexts of the earlier systems, mostly of Vedantic orientation, wherein are traced the roots and origins of the Sikhological concepts. What is not realized is that the meaning of a term in one context cannot be reduced to its connotation in another context. A term has no intrinsic meaning which it could carry from one system to another, its meaning is a quality of its context."

The sovereignty of the Sikh doctrine (Sikhism in the perspective of modern thought / Jasbir Singh Ahluwalia, 1983

 

[aristotle]

Our traditional interpreters have tried to seek meanings of various concepts of Sikhism not within the framework of its own metaphysical co-ordinates, but in the contexts of the earlier systems

Priceless!

 

[Ishna]

One. Do not promise when you’re happy.
Two. When you are angry, do not respond.
Three. Do not decide when you’re sad.

 

[aristotle]

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

[aristotle]

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.

― Pablo Neruda

 

[arshdeep88]

The more time you spend in your discomfort zone, the more your comfort zone will expand."

 

[sandeep17oct]

Atheism is common sense.

Lawrence Krauss

 

[Harry Haller]

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen"

Einstein

 

[arshdeep88]

"Change your thoughts and you change your world." - Norman Vincent Peale

 

[aristotle]

Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.
― Rumi