Friday, February 19, 2010

The fact that we conform to ourselves and none has been India's age old philosophy. Then it got diluted and lost when people who did not understand it. The gist of life and everything as human beings has been understood long ago - we are just in the process of realizing the same thing over and over again. Will we ever learn anything more? I guess no till we are a normal human being.

Sunday, February 7, 2010

Saturday, February 6, 2010

..It gets lost, it gets involved in the farthest-out adventures, but in the end it always wakes up and comes back to itself..(Alan Watts)

Hind Swaraj - Some Quotes

- The curse of the nation will rest not upon the English but upon us.
- In order to restore India to its pristine condition, we have to return to it.
- Like others, he will know that action is much better than speech; that it is our duty to say exactly what we think and face the consequences and that it will be only then that we shall be able to impress anybody with our speech;
- You make a mistake. You and I have nothing to do with the others. Let each do his duty. If I do my duty, that is, serve myself, I shall be able to serve others.
- Real home-rule is self-rule or self-control