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Quotes on Kings and Inspired Limericks QUOTES Power makes you a monarch, and all the fancy robes in the world won't do the job without it. ~ LAURELL K. HAMILTON Kings are not born: they are made by universal hallucination. ~GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Whoever controls the king, controls the kingdom. ~HOLLY BLACK Poor man wanna be rich; / Rich man wanna be king./ And a king ain't satisfied / Till he rules everything. ~BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN It is better to be without a king than [to have] a bad one. ~CHANAKYA INSPIRED LIMERICKS There once was a monarch so cold, Who valued his crown and his gold. While commoners would cry, He would simply pass by, With a heart that was cruel to behold. *** There once was a monarch so cold, Who divided people for gold. While the needy cried, He just pushed them aside, On a throne that was heartless and bold.

  J Krishnamurti Quotes on 'Eternal'   In the present is eternity, and to understand that, mind must be free of the burden of the past; and to free the mind of the past there must be an intense questioning of the present It is here, now, in the immediate. The eternal or the timeless is now, and the now cannot be understood by one who is caught in the net of time." To live in the eternal present there must be death to the past, to memory. In this death there is timeless renewal. ~J Krishnamurti   Inspired Poem   No journey starts, no journey ends, Just being, where all meaning blends. The great "before," the "after" gone, Just always, with the boundless dawn.   No walls can hold, no years can bind, The endless essence of your kind. You touch the One, the All, the True, Forever present, ever new.   This boundless self, forever free, From every chain, from every strife, In perfect calm, eternally, This is the essence of all life. ...

Collaborative and participatory visual research method: Poems Quatrains Pictures shared, voices rise, Working together, no surprise. Seeing the world through every eye, Helps bring the changes, reaching high. When folks can draw, and paint, and make, For goodness, for everyone's sake. Plans made by all, a stronger ground, Where justice and fairness can be  No words can hold us, language falls away, The silent knowing brightens every day. Power's edge is softened, fairness takes its place, A gentle meeting, full of common grace. Haiku Lines dance on the page, Camera sees, stories bloom, Worlds in images. *** In Summary Kishore (2026) explores the integration of creative arts and qualitative inquiry to enhance participant engagement by combining poetry with participatory visual research methods. It is felt that combining visual artifacts with co-created poetry fosters deeper, empathetic, and participant-driven research, empowering subjects to share complex narratives while mainta...

  Bol Alaap Phrases in Sanskrit from Chapter 16 of the Bhagavad Gita: Focus Group Outcome A focus group was held (N=3; 1 hour; June 26, 2026, Ambala) to work out the contours of a study the integrates spiritual intelligence with Gita through alaap bols picked from the scripture. It was decided to to delimit the study the study by developing the micro-credential literacy and awareness module of 12 hours for middle school students for introducing values education. It was decided that the module should have four-hour of literacy and awareness with four learning episodes and 8 hours of practical and practice of selected bol alaap phrases from the chapter 16 of Gita which related to divine and devilish virtues. Here are 10 distinct Sanskrit phrases from the divine and demoniac qualities described in Chapter 16 of the Bhagavad Gita, primarily sourced from Verse 1, Verse 2, and Verse 10: अभयं सत्त्वसंशुद्धिः  = अभयं + सत्त्व + सं + शुद्धिः  (Abhayaṁ sattvasaṁśuddhiḥ — ...

  Begin with  bol alaap practice with devotions composition in Raga Bhupali in the following steps, as suggested by the AI prompt. Practicing bol alap involves improvising melodic patterns using the lyrics (bols) of a composition (bandish). It develops voice flexibility, breath control, and deep emotional connection to the raga, informed an AI prompt on Google. Follow these easy steps to get started Pick a familiar composition: Select a simple bandish you already know well, preferably in Vilambit (slow) or Madhyalaya (medium) tempo. Focus on a few key notes: For developing raga alaap, start small by exploring a simple lyrics and resting on focal swaras (notes) without rushing. Sing the lyrics slowly: Take one or two words of the composition and stretch the vowels across the notes, ensuring clear syllable pronunciation. Experiment with note combinations: Create small improvisations around those words, moving smoothly between notes using meend (glides).Keep the rhythm steady: Pr...

Sage Ashtvatra had preached the 'path of equanimity'. He had advised to drop the mental constructs of  dualities called extremes  such as "good and bad" or "bondage and liberation" or 'blame and praise"  to rest effortlessly in the Absolute State of middle path. Here is his quote "One man is abstemious and averse to the senses, another is greedy and attached to them, but he who is free from both taking and rejecting is neither abstemious nor greedy."— Ashtavakra Gita (16.6) So Spake Ashtvatra on Extremes : Quintains A sage named Ashtvakra did teach, That freedom is found, within reach. Not fleeing from strife, Nor caught in this life But balanced, beyond every breach. **** Awakened Ashtavakra knew, The wise heart finds a balanced view. Not in, nor out they roam, But find their peaceful home, From extremes, their spirit grew.