my birthday

came across this today, my birthday, said by Ramana Maharshi:

"You who wish to celebrate the birthday, seek first whence was your birth. One's true birthday is when he enters That which transcends birth and death -the Eternal Being.

At least on one's birthday one should mlourn one's entry into samsara. To glory in it and celebrate it is like delighting in and decorating a corpse. To seek one's Self and merge in the Self: that is wisdom."

Mathura a District Memoir

printed in 1883, by F.S. Growse, the British DM at the time. I think its fantastic that these things are on the web and free. A special thanks to google books: http://books.google.com/books?id=fgAvAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA144&dq=Growse,+PN&ei=Ayr9RtqjD5yS7QKf-NXlDQ#PPP9,M1

first real post

now that I have a nice meditative blog, I will write. We have discussed the reason for the blog, now the reason of the name. navapurana , the new old. progressive, yet reliant on what was left long ago. thats me, and thats the name. thank you

what exactly are my thoughts,

and why would I feel the need to make a blog aside from smilingbodies (lj)? I'm not sure, but it will be fun

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स्वागतम