"We All Are Men, In Our Own Natures Frail, And Capable Of Our Flesh; Few Are Angels."

please either stop being so attractive or make out with me it is your choice

If you don't understand why someone has been grieving so much for so long, then consider yourself fortunate that you do not understand.

-Joanne Cacciatore

Ajab apna haal hota jo visal-e-yaar hota

kabhi jaan sadqe hoti kabhi dil nisar hota

Strange my state would have been, if my beloved had come to see me,

Sometimes I would surrender my heart, sometimes my soul to her

_DAGH DEHLVI

Always continue to better yourself and don’t wish bad upon others

Aap ki yaad aati rahi raat bhar

Chandni dil dukhati rahi raat bhar

Gaah jalti hui gaah bujhti hui

Sham-e-gham jhilmilati rahi raat bhar

Koi khushbu badalti rahi pairahan

Koi tasvir gaati rahi raat bhar

Phir saba saya-e-shakh-e-gul ke tale

Koi qissa sunati rahi raat bhar

Jo na aaya use koi zanjir-e-dar

Har sada par bulati rahi raat bhar

Ek ummid se dil bahalta raha

Ik tamanna satati rahi raat bhar

-Faiz Ahmed Faiz

There are thousands of poets and then there is Faiz. Once you start reading him there's no going back. Also, what a beautiful ghazal this is.

Kuch to baat hai is dhalti shaam mein

dil-e-udaas ko zehar pila jaati hai

Jisko roz bhulaate hai

Usi kambakht ki yaad dila jaati hai

desi dark academia moodboard set in punjab, india

"the world seems crowded with unfinished lives". // ruskin bond, delhi is not far

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This is amazing.

As Requested: The Legend of Kalidasa (some of you know this but wait till the end)

Here's a story my father(who's also my sanskrit teacher) told me.

Long ago, in a Kingdom near Ujjain in India, a king had a beautiful princess- her name was Vidyottama. From a young age she displayed extraordinary talent and intelligence.

When she came of age, she made a demand that she would only marry a man who could out do her in vedic knowledge.

So the princes came and she set them impossible questions, and the rejected princes decided to trick her into marrying someone stupid.

So they came across an illiterate goatherd who was cutting the branch he was sitting on. They took him to the palace dressed as a prince.

When the princess started the debate, they defended him saying he was taking a vow of silence, and misinterpreted all his confused gestures to his benefit.

Vidyottama fell for it, and married him.

At night, he climbed off the bed and slept on the floor as he wasn't used to the bed. He started making his goat-calls to calm himself down. At this point Vidyottama realized who he was. She was mortified, but she thought, 'he is my wedded lord. I must help him'.

And she advised to to go to the temple of the goddess Kali and beg her for knowledge.

He went at midnight and sat inside the temple and closed the door. When the goddess returned at dawn, she asked, 'who's inside?' And he said, 'who's outside?' She told him that she was the goddess, and repeated her question. He told her, 'I am Dasa (servant), and I want knowledge' so she told him to thrust his tongue through the keyhole and drew a line on it, thus giving him knowledge.

From then on he was known as Kalidasa. He went back to Vidyottama and hailed her. She said to him, 'Asti kaschit vagvilasa?' Which is Sanskrit for 'It seems you've gotten literacy?' And he thanked her and walked east and started writing great epics, like the Abijnana Shakuntalam and Meghadootam and such.

HERE'S THE THING:

HE USED HER WORDS TO START OFF HIS EPICS.

In kumarasambhavam- ASTI uttarasyam disi devatatma..

In Meghadootam- KASCHIT yaksho..

Raghuvamsam- VAGARTHA eva samprukthau...

From Vidyottama's words 'Asti Kaschit Vagvilasa?'

I found this awesome.

@recapturingsky @ze-thoughts-are-stupid @mascara-massacres @asoulfulbeing @nerdyfuntheorist @thebountyhunterthatfellinlove

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