Jingle Jingle Little Bell

Jingle jingle little bell
How I wonder, what you tell
But when you ring, we all know
School is over, its time to go!

Elements

By the wilful fire are you forged
That creates through destruction
Or by the fluid water are you composed
That conquers all by yeilding
Or by the subtle air are you pervaded
That conducts thoughts with lightening speed
Or by the solid earth are you built
That is stable and long endured

Escape from Reality

How can the dreamer escape from reality
If there is no reality to escape from

How can he spin creative yarns to weave joyful fantasies,
Without the loom of crushed hopes & thread of painful experiences

How sweet are the flights of imagination
Out from the mire of bitter sorrow

How inspiring is that world forged of wilful fire
Bringing warmth to a better tomorrow

Black Crow

Ka Ka black crow, Ange paar adho!
Yes sir, yes sir - three black crow
One will eat my cake,
One will eat my toast,
One will get shooed away
If it comes too close.

Universe has consciousness

Consciousness is different from matter & energy. It cannot be analyzed in terms of matter or energy. We are made up of matter, energy & consciousness. We can only be made up of what is there in the Universe. Nothing that is part of us can come about from nothing. So if we are made up of matter & energy which is from the Universe, even our consciousness would have come from the Universe i.e. Universe must have consciousness.

Knowing

Man (the subject) tries to know everything around him (the objects). But what is "knowing"? "Knowing" something could mean the following things

- what are the properties that distinguish that object, that make it a separate "object" worth study. For e.g. once you have studied and listed down properties of an animal say "deer", then there is no point studying other deers, in so far as to "know" the "deerness" part of them.
- "knowing" the properties helps one understand/know how that object would behave under different scenarios.
- it also helps to "know" where this object came from and where it is headed towards, as also why, how & when it came into being i.e. in case of an animal - its evolutionary cycle.
- based on all this "knowing" helps to categorize - the human way of systematizing knowledge e.g. so deers are mammals, of the class of vertebrates and so on...
- the human endeavor to "know" any object is generally to benefit from that knowledge. So "knowing" as a corollary may also extend to finding ways of putting this knowledge to practical use.

Isha Upanishad - stanza 1

ॐ ईशा वास्यमिदँ सर्वं यत्किञ्च जगत्यां जगत् ।
तेन त्यक्तेन भुञ्जीथा मा गृधः कस्यस्विद्धनम् ।। १ ।।

îsHâ vâsyamidaM sarvaM yat kiñca jagatyâM jagat,
tena tyaktena bhuñjîthâ mâ gRidhaH kasya sviddhanam. 1.

ishaa - God, the Lord
vaasyam - clothed, enveloped, pervaded, dwelling
idam - this
sarvam - all

yatkincha (yat kim cha)- whatsoever ?
jagatyaam - in this world, on earth
jagat - world, moving, movable, earth
tena tyaktena -renouncing this, it (tyaktena means detaching or renouncing)
bhunjitha - enjoy (also mentioned as "protect" in some translations)
ma - dont
gridha - covet (wish to possess)
kasya - whose
svid - indeed, i wonder, do you think
dhanam - wealth

By the Lord is enveloped all that moves in the moving world.
By renouncing this, find your enjoyment.
Do not covet the possessions of others.
(http://www.san.beck.org/Upan3-Isha.html)