Manoj

Author: Manoj

  • Of happiness and misery

    Caressing her, he said: “It is by their own actions, good or bad, that men are happy or miserable. The virtues or vices of others will not affect us in the least.” Sukracharya tries to console his daughter Devayani after she is insulted and hurt by her companion – Sarmishta – the king’s daughter. (Mahabharata…

  • More so now than ever

    “You are enchanting – more so now than ever, flushed as you are with anger.” Kacha says this to Devayani while declining her proposal for marriage, for he believes that by bringing him back to life, Sukracharya is now his parent and it is against nature for a brother to wed his own sister. (Mahabharata…

  • Of wine and virtue

    “Virtue will desert the man who through lack of wisdom drinks wine. He will be an object of scorn to all. This is my message to humanity, which should be regarded as an imperative scriptural injunction.” The Asuras would have killed Sukracharya’s disciple Kacha, burnt his body and mixed his ashes in wine and offered…

  • You had better be running!

    “Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows that it must run faster than the fastest lion, Or it will be killed” “Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle Or it will starve to death” It does not matter whether you are a gazelle…

  • Smile For You!

    Years ago, when a friend of mine graduated from his school, he was presented with a plastic file containing 16 printed pages with this cover: It was a collection of articles, poems and parables that had instantly caught my attention. So, I had kept a copy of them with me. And while cleaning my bookshelves, I…