Book Review: Introducing Buddha (Graphic Guides)

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Introducing Buddha is a short story about the journey of Buddha and Buddhism from India to around the world. A graphic guide series books has very good illustrations for various important concepts and events which make the book more attractive for readers. The story of the book starts from India where Buddha was born and how Buddhism spread around the world. The different path of Buddhism. Cultural adaptation of Buddhism in different countries. Here is the wisdom I extract from the book:

•  Much learning is like a poor man counting another's treasure without a penny of his own.
• Words are not the highest reality, nor what is expressed in words the highest reality. Why? Because the highest reality is an experience which cannot be entered into by means of statements regarding it.
• Poetry and visual symbols come much closer to reality.
• The mind must be in a state of wisdom to understand wisdom.
• We have to make friends with ourselves and be kind to those aspects of ourselves we like least. Learning to be kind to ourselves brings the discovery that fundamentally we are quite soft. We become hard when we habitually deny our own woundedness and blame others for causing our pain. In admitting our own hurt, we become soft and vulnerable.
• Tantric deities do not exist in the so called “real world”. But nor does Sherlock Holmes or Madame Bovary, even though people may feel very familiar with their characters.
• People often use their anger at social injustice as a basis for action, but that is unwise. When you are angry you are not lucid and you can do harm.

हिन्दी कविता: तू बुरा है और बुरा ही मर जाएगा

तुझ में बसी अच्छाई वो न देख पाएगा,

तू बुरा है और बुरा ही मर जाएगा।

कहने को तो बोहोत कुच्छ कह जाएगा,

पर अंत में ज़िक़्र वही ग़लतियों का कर जाएगा।

इन ग़लतियों का बोझ फिर तुजे गलत कह जाएगा,

रावण कितना भी सन्मान करे सीता का मर्यादापुरुषोत्तम राम ही कहलाएगा।

तू फ़िक़्र मत कर इनके ज़िक्र का,

तू जो है वही तुजे ज़िन्दा रख पाएगा,

रिश्तो की अहेमियत या एहसान का बोझ,

पसंद तेरी तुजे कृष्ण या कर्ण बनाएगा।

क्या गलत क्या सही, वो तो ज़िन्दगी का सलीका तुजे बता देगा,

तुजे कुछ कहने की ज़रूरत नहीं वक़्त आने पर तेरा काम सब कुछ कह जाएगा।

तुझ में बसी अच्छाई वो न देख पाएगा,

तू बुरा है और बुरा ही मर जाएगा।

- अभिजीत मेहता

Books authored by Mr. Abhijeet Mehta

हिंदी कविता: ख्वाहिशें

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हिंदी कविता: ज़िन्दगी का सफर

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हिंदी कविता: तू और में

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हिंदी कविता: खुशियां पनपती है आंसुओ में

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Book Review: The Alchemist

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I think you may have read many reviews about this book and even many of you may have already read it. However, I believe that every reader/reviewer has his/her own perspective to understand the content. This book is all about chasing your dream and pay the price to fulfill them. We have to make choices in our life and many time we end up regretting the chosen path and believe that the other path might be the better choice. I believe that regretting your choice will make you weak and make your journey towards your dreams difficult. Therefore, it is better to take your own decision and take responsibility of it. Find the way towards of your dreams and more important is, enjoy the journey. It is not the fulfillment of your dreams but your journey towards fulfillment of your dreams will teach you a life changing lessons. I don't want to discuss the story of the book because that you already read or heard from other sources but I would like to narrate some interesting lines from the book.

Wisdom:

• When someone sees the same people everyday, they end up becoming a part of that person's life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.
• At a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.
• We have to take advantage when luck is on our side, and do as much to help it as it's doing to help us. It's called the principle of favorability. or beginner's luck.
• Beauty is the great seducer of men.
• People need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want.
• Everyone has his or her own way of learning things.
• Die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day.
• Courage is the quality most essential to understanding the Language of the World.
• It's not what enters men's mouths that's evil; It's what comes out of their mouths that is.
• Camels are traitorous: they walk thousands of paces and never seem to tire. Then suddenly, they kneel and die. But horses tire bit by bit. You always know how much you can ask them, and when it is that they are about to die.
• One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
• Fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.
• Before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is evil, but so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the dream.
• Every search begins with beginer's luck. And every search ends with the victor's being severely tested.
• Your eyes show the strength of your soul.
• When something evolves, everything around that thing evolves as well.
• Anyone who interferes with the destiny of another thing never will discover his own.
• There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
• When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.
• To die alive is to take risks. To pay your price. To do something that sometimes scares you but you should do because you may like or you may not like.

Here is the link to my brother's blog for the book review. I hope you will find it interesting too.

हिंदी कविता: सिर उठाऊ, घूंघट हटाऊँ

सिर उठाऊ, घूंघट हटाऊँ,
खुद के लिए मैं,
खुद की जात से लड़ जाऊ

मैं क्या पहनू, मैं क्या खाऊ,
बाहर मैं जाऊ या न मैं जाऊ,
किसके साथ घूमूं,
किसका हाथ थामू?
शादी मैं बनाऊ या,
कुंवारी ही मर जाऊ।

ये जिसम है मेरा,
ये ज़िन्दगी है मेरी,
ये उधारी नहीं तेरी,
जो चलती रहेगी तेरी।

जन्म दे के क्या किया,
बस दूध में न धकेला,
बाकी तू ने भी तो,
सारे रिवाज़ो से तोला,
ख्वाबो को है जकड़ा,
फैसलों को मेरे तूने बेड़ियों से पकड़ा,
लड़की लड़की बोल तूने,
न कुछ है मेरा छोड़ा,
बाप ने शादी कर,
पति ने रिश्ता जोड़,
मुजे तो बस एक चीज बना छोड़ा।

छोड़ा दामन माँ का,
फिर हाथ किसीका थामा,
वो भी सारे सपने दिखा,
बस अपनी बंदी ही तय बोला।

अब डर नही है मुझमें,
तू रोकले अब मुजको,
अगर दम बचा है तुझमे,

न चिखूंगी हक के लिए,
न चिल्लाऊंगी मदद के लिए,
अब
खुद से
खुद पे
खुद के
ख़ातिर अपने पाँव पे खड़ी हो लिए।

न नारीशक्ति की गुहार दु,
न स्त्री नाम पे इनाम लू,
जुठ के ये चहेरों तले,
अपनी कामयाबी न अहसान से लू,
अपना मैं इन्साफ़ लू,
मैं डर का हाथ थाम लू,
ज़िन्दगी के इस सफर में,
अकेले ही मैं जा लडू,

सर उठाऊ, घूंघट हटाऊँ,
अपनी जात के लिए मैं,
खुद की जात से लड़ जाऊ।

- अभिजीत मेहता

Books authored by Mr. Abhijeet Mehta

हिंदी कविता: कोयला

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