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Wednesday,
September 25, 2002,
Chandigarh, India  
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Why delay paddy
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The BJP in an election mode Punjab’s disturbing industrial scene-II
Free power benefits rich farmers mostly
Friendship and the way we live today
Another indicator of heart disease
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Why delay paddy MSP? THE delay in the announcement of the minimum support price (MSP) for paddy and the consequent failure of the official agencies to begin the procurement process has left the growers fuming. To express their resentment, certain associations of Punjab farmers started indefinite sit-in protests in Chandigarh and Patiala on Monday. There are reports of farmers resorting to distress sale of paddy in certain mandis. Actually, distress sale is a frequent occurrence and it seems the MSP is deliberately delayed to help arhtiyas, sheller-owners and private rice millers to buy paddy cheap. Some unscrupulous traders, taking advantage of the farmers’ plight, buy paddy during the crisis period and sell it to official agencies at the MSP a few weeks later. Farmers cannot afford to hold their stocks because of lack of storage facilities and pressing financial demands. This season has been particularly bad for the paddy growers. First, the crop in some parts withered because of the drought. Most farmers in Punjab saved their crop by spending extra on diesel to keep their tubewells running. Then untimely rain damaged paddy unloaded in mandis. About two lakh tonnes of paddy has arrived in mandis so far. Paddy is fetching a lower price partly due to the increased moisture content and partly due to the absence of official agencies. Last year the FCI had started the procurement on September 21, but this year the central agency has announced that it will enter the market on October 1.Besides, the farmers are agitated that power tariff is being reintroduced for agriculture at a time when their earnings are shrinking. Another cause of the farmers’ anger is the failure of the sugar mills to clear their dues, which they say amount to Rs 100 crore. Why is the Centre dithering on the announcement of the MSP? Some Congressmen blame the delay on Mr Parkash Singh Badal, whose party is a partner in the ruling NDA coalition at the Centre. Mr Badal, they say, wants to take political mileage out of the crisis. Mr Badal could have taken the initiative quite early to ensure a timely declaration of the MSP and earned the goodwill of the farming community, but he waited as the situation, much to his advantage, was on the boil. Capt Amarinder Singh, piqued at the embarrassment caused to him by the Centre’s lack of response to his demand for an early decision on the MSP and drought relief for Punjab, has gone to the extent of threatening a dharna outside the Prime Minister’s residence on September 26 when Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee returns from his Maldives visit. If the dharna threat materialises, it would be a first-ever such protest by a Chief Minister. There is also a growing feeling in Punjab that the Centre has turned its back on the country’s leading food granary because of the huge foodgrain stocks. There is also a demand to abolish the MSP altogether. The situation is not yet ripe for such an extreme step. While it may be emphasised that the agitational path serves little purpose and the people in general are intelligent enough to see through the politics played by certain leaders to build up a crisis situation, it is time for all well-wishers of Punjab, regardless of their political differences, to unitedly take up the common issues. The Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices, which had recommended for this season last year’s MSP -- Rs 530 for ordinary varieties and Rs 560 for Grade A varieties of paddy-- and was asked by the Union Agriculture Minister to rework the costs in view of the drought, should immediately come out with its recommendation as delay benefits no one. Ideally, the MSP, whether for paddy or wheat, should be announced before a crop is sown. |
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Exemplary fine THE Rs 1-crore fine imposed by the Supreme Court on the Himachal Pradesh government for neglecting ecology by allowing companies to paint advertisements on eco-fragile rock faces on the Rohtang-Manali road will, hopefully, become a lesson for all governments and make them wary of the vandalism of public property going on unchecked for all these years. Since equally stiff fines have been imposed on the guilty companies also, those daring to emulate them will also think twice before picking up the brush. A free for all in this regard has played havoc with ecology. Public property is considered to be nobody’s property and hence defaced and debased ruthlessly. The firm action of the Supreme Court will put the fear of the law in the mind of the vandals. Ironically, the government already has the powers to rein in such lawless acts, but never discharges its responsibility. Now that the egg has burst in their face, various authorities are challaning offending agencies for putting trees and government land to illegal use by nailing billboards, etc, on them. They need to answer why they were sleeping all these years. If only such activities were nipped right in bud, the evil would not have reached such large proportions. The condoning of every illegal act becomes an open invitation to 10 other such perpetrators. Now that the nation’s conscience has been pricked good and proper, it is time to go hammer and tongs against all similar acts of vandalism. For instance, whenever a rally or meeting has to be held, the organisers invariably plaster their posters on milestones and signboards. This prevents the public from reading out vital information. The biggest culprits happen to be the ruling parties themselves. This menace is particularly prevalent in Punjab and Haryana. Worse, these posters remain in place months after the function is over. Since the organisers have the blessings of the administration, no hue and cry is raised. Judiciary must come to the rescue of law-abiding citizens who have nobody to turn to. Anybody defacing boards that provide necessary information to the public must be strictly dealt with. Moreover, it must be ensured that those who put up hoardings and buntings for a function are equally prompt in removing these once the event is over. Nobody should have the right to spoil the aesthetic beauty of any spot so brazenly. Huge billboards advertising one item or another erected along various roads are an equally big eyesore. Some regulatory mechanism is the need of the hour. |
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Photo finish in Germany THE victory of Germany’s ruling Social Democrat-Green coalition led by Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in Sunday’s elections is clearly a record in the annals of the country’s history since the Second World War. The fortunes of both Mr Schroeder and the Opposition centre-right challenger Edmund Stoiber were fluctuating till the last minute during the counting of votes. And finally, when both sides levelled at 38.5 per cent after the counting of the last vote, Mr Schroeder managed to scrape through only when the Greens, the ruling coalition’s ally, and the Liberals, Mr Stroiber’s campaign partner, came to his rescue. Mr Schroeder may have been elected for yet another four-year term in the Bundestag, but he needs to learn several lessons from the election results, particularly because of the general impression that it would be difficult for him to sail along smoothly with the kind of the mandate he got. In fact, while exit polls predicted a photo finish, opinion polls were not entirely in favour of Mr Schroeder. The Opposition, from the very beginning of the electoral process, overtook the government in the opinion polls. Rising unemployment and fragile economic growth topped the political agenda and both factors sought to undermine the Schroeder government’s popularity. In a way, the Opposition’s strategy of selecting Mr Edmund Stoiber, the Bavarian Premier, as its leader, instead of the more liberal Angela Merkel, seemed to have clicked, even though he could not make it finally. He gave a tough fight to Mr Schroeder and raised several issues such as education and immigration during the campaign. The state of the economy was the key and Mr Stroiber pointed to his home state’s relative prosperity in the debate over Mr Schroeder’s lacklustre economic performance. However, Mr Stroiber had his own weaknesses. For instance, he faced a major challenge in broadening his appeal beyond Bavaria. Mr Schroeder is bound to face difficult days during his second term. People will watch his performance very carefully. No doubt, the wafer-thin majority he got would limit the scope for his coalition government to push through the much-needed economic and administrative reforms in Bundestag. Mr Stroiber and his Christian Democrat friends, who emerged as the single largest political group in Parliament, might create hurdles in the government’s functioning. Will the new government pursue the programme it unveiled during the election campaign so as to modernise Germany further? For instance, it promised to reform social security and unemployment benefits, now paid separately, into a single package, by raising family allowances and helping Germany’s federal states switch over to full-day teaching in 10,000 schools. Reports suggest that Mr Schroeder failed to keep his promise to bring down the unemployment rate from four million to 3.5 million. There is anger and frustration among both workers and the unemployed lot. Most studies point out that wages have been stagnating over the last 20 years. It is even said that while workers’ wages fell by 0.4 per cent between 1980 and 2000, the net profits of the bosses rose by 96.5 per cent! It would indeed be an acid test for Mr Schroeder to tackle the twin problems of recession and high unemployment. |
The BJP in an election mode ON the face of it, the next general election is still a long way off. But the manner in which the Bharatiya Janata Party is going about its business suggests that it is already in the election mode, first seeking to erode the Congress in the states it governs before taking it on at the central level. Mr L.K. Advani’s assumption of the No 2 slot in the Cabinet without demur from the party’s coalition partners has given it a new confidence. Gujarat is significant for the BJP in many respects because it will serve to define the limits of the party’s stridency in promoting the Hindutva cause with an eye on the vote. It is no coincidence that despite the expressions of “shame” and “regret” expressed by Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee and Mr Advani, the state Chief Minister, Mr Narendra Modi, remains at his post. And even the most outrageous remarks he makes targeting Muslims invite muted murmurs of protest from the party’s central leadership. The BJP has come to the conclusion that its coalition partners in the National Democratic Alliance are offering their support for their own ends and those who left the government returned to the fold for want of a better alternative. The Trinamool Congress’s sorry plight is a telling example of the limited options of the motley coalition constituents. For instance, Mr Chandrababu Naidu’s main adversary in Andhra Pradesh is the Congress Party while the concessions he wins from the Centre keeps him happy. Others are enjoying the fruits of power, with their leaders such as Balasaheb Thackeray deciding (over the head of the Prime Minister) who in their ranks should hold office. While the BJP has now thrown the coalition partners the sop of keeping the NDA together should it be returned to power, it is not inhibited in trying to poach on their territory in the states. A decision the party seems to have arrived at is that in the all-important state of Uttar Pradesh, it cannot hope to win on its own and should buttress the alliance with the Bahujan Samaj Party while seeking the latter’s help in parliamentary elections. Judging by the new noises being made by the Sangh Parivar, the Ayodhya issue is again being activated to do duty in the elections. But the BJP leadership realises that the Ayodhya issue by itself is no longer a vote winner and has to be accompanied by the rhetoric of the Modi variety to try to create the impression of a besieged Hindu society seeking to win its full independence. The manner in which BJP spokesmen have been springing to Mr Modi’s defence over his indefensible employment of plainly communal rhetoric is instructive. The BJP’s appeal to the constituents it is seeking to influence could be blunted by an apologetic tone; hence the decision to brazen it out. The reorganisation of the party at the central level and in some of the states is an indication of the BJP’s desire to revitalise it as well of the difficulties in removing men and women from their perches in ministerial offices. The BJP’s dilemma is that the more it becomes a “normal” party, the greater is the eagerness of its members to enjoy the power and pelf of office. Idealism left the party years ago and lies more in the ranks of those outside the elite party circle than in it. The avariciousness of those in the BJP holding office at various levels has become a byword in civil society. The BJP leadership has come to the conclusion that it cannot wait to reform its members before consolidating political power. Hence there is no bar to opportunistic alliances, in UP with Ms Mayawati and with any number of permutations and combinations elsewhere. One must admire the dexterity with which the BJP has kept its motley coalition partners together and Mr Advani for one pronounces his satisfaction over how the coalition experiment has worked thus far. Understandably, the BJP considers the Congress Party its chief adversary. The fortunes of the hoary party of Indian independence can be gauged from the fact that it rules, singly or in coalitions, in 15 states in contrast to the BJP’s paltry score in the states. Much of Mr Modi’s venom is, therefore, directed at the Congress, giving full play to the Gujarat Chief Minister’s talent for reducing invective to the lowest level of vulgarity. More soberly, the Italian origins of Congress president Sonia Gandhi are sought to be injected by others in the BJP as a major issue, after the AIADMK leader Jayalalithaa helpfully brought it into the realm of public debate. It is no secret that at least a section of the influential middle class is uncomfortable with the prospect of a foreign-born Prime Minister; it is less troubled by the fact that Mrs Gandhi’s claim to fame lies in her marriage into the Nehru-Gandhi family. In any event, Indira Gandhi herself occupied the office of Prime Minister by virtue of her birth before she won her spurs. And there have been countless others who have successfully promoted their progeny in politics. Mrs Sonia Gandhi’s foreign origin is a chink in the Congress armour and is a problem only she and the party can help resolve. But merely to pose the question of a change of guard — as far as a projected Prime Ministerial candidate is concerned — is to invite a host of problems. Once the leadership stakes are opened, there would be much internecine warfare, with a frustrated old guard seeking to prevent younger talented leaders from coming to the fore. It is, of course, far from clear that Mrs Gandhi will make herself unavailable for the Prime Ministerial office if her party wins. The BJP is hoping that the question of Mrs Gandhi’s birth will remain a live one at the time of the next general election even as its first priority will be on the string of assembly elections due next year. For one thing, the anti-incumbency factor might help the BJP to an extent but much will depend upon the kind of understandings it is able to arrive at with other parties and factions and how widespread the problem of those denied the party ticket will be. At any rate, the party is not losing much sleep over a “third front”, again in the making. It is the good fortune of the BJP that many of the opposition parties are afraid of the Congress for the appeal it retains and do not wish it to return to power at the federal level. They, therefore, fail to combine against the BJP in many instances. In any case, the BJP is determined to try all the stratagems it can think of to keep the Congress at bay. |
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Punjab’s disturbing industrial scene-II THE only industry which appears to offer some prospect to Punjab is sports goods. Meerut is yet to become powerful. To develop this sector, can we try and rope in a big brother with global clout with the help of eminent sports personalities? Can Punjab invite world-class manufacturers of sports goods machinery to demonstrate their equipment? Invite a retired volunteer executive from a world-class US manufacturer under their AISEC programme to bench-mark products of Jalandhar’s most ambitious large units. Teach the upgradation of local quality. Past experience with such volunteer experts is superb and the cost through the AISEC programme is not high. Punjab should organise a TQM programme (Juran Approach) for Jalandhar manufacturers. Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan has started organising sandwich programmes for industry teams. The experience is universally positive. In the area of the knowledge-based industry, the best course for Punjab is to offer its own E-governance needs to entice large units, Andhra style. Since its own finances are under acute strain, begin with selected projects in the BOO segment with short gestation periods. To prove the credentials make direct offers to the half a dozen large IT units already established within the state: Quark, Trident, Inde-Dutch etc. Gestation will be short. Timely delivery will be assured. Go round the country to entice others once locals are loaded. Since knowledge-led entrepreneurship is the only redemption for Punjab, the situation warrants urgent reshaping of the curriculum by universities (followed by schools and colleges) towards the creation of entrepreneurs instead of churning out job-seekers. We should move away from the present rote to understanding principles of science for application in live situations. We should foster observation, creativity, team-working and perseverance. There is need to introduce entrepreneurship as a compulsory elective subject as part of every course and develop an effective course. Such steps taken today may only yield dividends after a decade. But they will usher in a new and continuously evolving chapter thereafter. The role of the state in all these activities should be confined to that of a facilitator. The facilities which can attract top-grade units are: Readily available land and at low prices with no time delays. Land at the present rate of Rs 1,400 per sq m at Mohali and similar places is a sure recipe for disaster. Reasons behind the steep and never-ending price rise are well-known. Cheaper land must be located and developed for industry. Assured quality power will save large cost-burden on the modern industry by way of capital investment and running expenses of stand-by gen-sets. Hundred per cent capacity is invariably installed by modern industrial units for an un-interrupted run. There will be cost saving on voltage stabilisers and spike-busters used to safeguard delicate computerised equipment. Despite these protections, motor and equipment burnout remains large and the impact is costly. Another nuisance is the frequent induction of bugs in software and wasted man-hours. Attractive township facilities: Residential; educational; medical; recreational. Good air, road and telephone connections. Educated and disciplined manpower. This tall order can be achieved. But it requires the courage of conviction in the decision-makers of the state to chart a long-term strategy and then pursue it with determination. (This is the concluding part of the article on Punjab’s small-scale industry. The first part appeared on Tuesday.) The writer, Chairman of Twenty-First Century Battery, Mohali, was earlier the Managing Director of Punjab Tractors Limited.
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Free power benefits rich farmers mostly THE issue of free supply of electricity for agriculture is a hot issue in Punjab these days. The Akali Dal (Badal) was for it and Mr Badal promptly implemented the commitment made on the eve of the 1997 Assembly elections immediately after he became Chief Minister of Punjab for the third time. What has been the experience? Big landlords like Mr Badal and Mr Harcharan Singh Brar of the Congress were the biggest beneficiaries— the media assessed their gain at Rs 12 lakh or so a year in each case. No one contradicted it. Landlords and rich zamindars having more than one tubewell each also gained a lot not only as a result of not having to pay for electricity consumed by their tubewells but also by selling water which they were getting free to peasants who needed it for their crops and could get only by buying from them. Poor peasants did not benefit in any way while middle peasants having their own tubewells did benefit. However, they often expressed their view that they would be happier if they would get power regularly even by paying for it rather than having it free but with the supply being very uncertain. Given human nature as it is at present, anything supplied free-of-charge (with the exception of education) is likely to be misused. And there is no doubt that the facility of free electricity for agriculture during Mr Badal’s tenure was grossly misused. For instance, through illegal connections it was used for non-agricultural vocations of various types. Also, for electric heaters, air-conditioners and for electric cooking devices etc. Of course, only the rich could do that, but the resulting loss to the Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) was certainly quite big. With corruption in Punjab being sky-high, all this could be done without any difficulty. While introducing free electricity for agriculture, Mr Badal had said that the loss to the PSEB would only be Rs 200 crore per annum and that the PSEB would be reimbursed the loss by the government. This was a gross under-estimate and a blatant untruth. It was nailed down as such in the first session of the new Assembly itself by CPI MLA Hardev Arshi. Now everybody agrees that the loss was much bigger and no part of it was reimbursed. Mr Badal’s claim that agricultural production in Punjab increased tremendously as a result of free power supply has not been substantiated convincingly. Policy of free power supply for agriculture had two aims: (1) to increase the Akali vote-bank (ii) to benefit rich peasant and landlord groups which control the Akali Dal. It, however, had some negative social effects too. Big sections of the Hindu traders saw this measure as meant to help the ruralites as against the urbanites. Many saw it as a measure to help agriculture as against industry. Dalits in villages saw it as a measure which discriminated against them. Remedial measures taken by Mr Badal were as under: (a) persons belonging to the Scheduled Castes were assured free power supply for domestic purposes up to 50 units. Conditions imposed were such that not many benefited. (b) On the eve of the February 2002 elections, octroi levied by the local bodies in the state was abolished. This made the urban organs of local self-government virtually bankrupt because the step was taken without providing alternative sources of income. The undeniable fact today is that this one measure (free power for agriculture) has done immense harm not only to the PSEB but also the entire economy of Punjab, including its agricultural economy. This aspect deserves a separate article. Hardly any political party in Punjab had dared openly oppose Mr Badal’s slogan of free power for agriculture even knowing its likely negative fallout. Vote-bank politics and populism blind even the left parties to the long-term interests of the people, the country and its economy. The correct slogan would have been: power for the poor, including poor peasants and small industry at cheap (subsidised) rates. If the Left in Punjab had gone to the people with this slogan while opposing Mr Badal’s slogan, it would have got a good response. In any case, to sacrifice long-term interests of the people for the sake of some immediate gain (which may not even last) is sheer opportunism. A new argument has been advanced to continue free supply of power for agriculture. First drought and now untimely rain have hit all sections of the peasantry in Punjab, though to varying extent in case of various sections of peasantry. No relief has yet been given to them. Instead of organising a struggle for relief in this connection, it is being argued that power should continue to be given free. In the long run it plays into the hands of Badals and Brars. As far as power supply is concerned, demand should be as stated first. Immediately relief in relation to drought and damage done by heavy rains should be demanded and fought for. Short-cuts don’t always do good. Many short-cuts do much greater harm in the long run than some immediate gain. |
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Friendship and the way we live today NOT since the 50s, when marriage was put on a lofty pedestal, has any relationship been so idealised and romanticised as friendship. Of course, friendship are becoming more important than ever, and it’s right that these special relationships are being recognised. We’re moving away from our families, sharing flats for longer, and getting married and having children (if at all) later than ever. Our friends fill in the gaps. Where once best friends were what you had before you got married, now there’s a whole generation of people who have wonderful friendships instead of getting married. And, if you think about it, our friendships can be equally as flawed as any other relationship. Who hasn’t diverted a call from a friend because ‘you just can’t face it’, and then felt guilty? Or used work as an excuse to get out of meeting up with a friend who you keep in touch with more out of duty than affection? But admitting that our friendships are anything less than perfect has become the last taboo. `People say their friends are their family,’ says psychologist Dorothy Rowe, author of Friends and Enemies (published by Harper Collins). `But what they don’t want to think about is the fact that these so-called brilliant friendships produce the same terrible behaviour and problems that families can do. Friends can be just as interfering and jealous; they can also make outrageous demands on you and treat you as if they own you. So, while 40 years of therapy has taught us that it’s OK to see how dysfunctional our families are, and spot destructive patterns in our love life, when it comes to modern friendships we are still constantly trying to make them live up to the `as-seen-on-TV’ ideal. And, if finding the time to see our friends is difficult enough, living up to the demands of an `I’ll be there for you, forever, whatever’ notion of friendship, means that there is now immense pressure on what is already a massively complicated dynamic. Yes, our friendships can bring us great joy, but they can also make us feel guilty when we’re not being the friend we think we should be, and resentful when we feel that our friends aren’t being the support system we think they should be. Dr Valerie Lamont, a counselling psychologist, says that `friendship guilt’ is exacerbated by the images of perfect friendships on TV which are `unhelpful’. If we’re not living up to the new idea of how friendships should be, then we feel like we have failed. `Most of us cite loyalty and being there for each other as the keys to a good friendship, but it’s not feasible to spend huge amounts of our time devoted to the needs of our friends,’ she says. The negative feelings that we bring to our friendships are rarely seen being discussed. Nor do we feel we can talk about them to each other in real life. Many admit to secretly feeling envious of friends. `It’s a terrible thing to say,’ says one. `It would be like saying you’re not happy for them.’ Competition among friends is another subject that’s hardly ever broached, but many of us compete with friends as much as we do, say, with siblings. We are all guilty of having different friends for different occasions, and having friendships that we secretly think have passed their expiry date. But, if we’re familiar with these realities of friendships, then why is it so hard to admit they exist? The Guardian
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Another indicator of heart disease IF you think that you are not at risk of developing heart disease because your cholesterol levels are under control, then you’re wrong. You may still be in danger from triglycerides, another type of blood fat. According to the September issue of the Mayo Health Clinic Letter, high triglyceride levels increase your risk of diabetes, heart disease and stroke, while extremely high levels of triglycerides also increase your risk of pancreatititis, a dangerous inflammation of the pancreas. The good news is that lifestyle and diet changes can reduce triglyceride levels, reports HealthScout. These include: Lowering your consumption of sugary foods, such as cookies. Reducing your alcohol intake. Losing your weight and exercising at least 30 minutes each day. Eating fish that contain high levels of omega-3 fatty acids, like mackerel, lake trout, herring, sardines, albacore tuna and salmon. And if these diet and lifestyle changes don’t help, consult your doctor about medications to lower your triglycerides. ANI
After 13 children, pregnant again Giving birth to over a dozen children is common in Nepal. A woman, after delivering 13 children, is preparing for the 14th child in Pyangche village of Makawanpur district. Santa Maya Rumba (31), had married Bhim Bahadur at the age of 11 and gave birth to her first child when she was 15. Since then, she had given birth to a child almost every year. In spite of the popular slogan “Two children God’s blessings”, most people in the remote hilly area of Nepal have many children due to lack of awareness, poverty and high percentage of illiteracy.
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Keep your mind in simran As the lustful Lives in thoughts of lust; Not for a moment does he forget Night and day, All through the eight watches, on the object of his lust He dwells. Keep your mind in simran As the water girl keeps her attention In the pitchers; She walks, she talks, But her attention, O Kabir stays in the pictures On her head. Keep your mind in simran As the cow’s thoughts are fixed on the calf; All day she grazes out in the meadows But never forgets the calf in the cowshed who awaits her turn. Keep your mind in simran as the miser broods over his wealth; Every moment his thoughts hover over this hoard. Be engrossed in simran like the deer absorbed in the sound of the drum; The hunter’s darts it gladly bears, O Kabir, but leaves not the company of what is dear to its heart. Live always in simran as the fish in water — a moment’s separation and it gives up its life, O Kabir. — Kabir Sakhi Sangraha *** On that day shall men come in companies to behold their works, and whosoever hath wrought an ant’s weight of good shall behold it, and whosoever hath wrought an ant’s weight of evil shall behold it. — The Quran *** Close your eyes, your ears and your mouth, and if then you do not perceive the beauty of God you may laugh at me. — Maulana Rum *** Your daily duty is to pray to God. Never ponder whether or not your prayer has been heard in the Court of the Lord. That is his prerogative. — Hafiz |
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