WAKE UP...Salutations to the new day

A sound arises out of the earth----

a singing, a friendliness

Cedric Wright

The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you

Don't go back to sleep!

You must ask for what you really want

Don't go back to sleep!

People are going back and forth

Across the doorsill where the 2 worlds touch,

The door is round and open. 

Don't go back to sleep!

Rumi

Waking up in the morning, I smile,

24 brand new hours before me.

I vow to live fully in each moment 

and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion.

Thich Nhat Hanh

 

 

Listen to the salutation to the dawn,

Look to this day for it's life, the very life of life,

In it's brief course lie all the virtues and realities of our existence.

The bliss of growth, the splendour of beauty,

For yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is only a vision,

But today well spent makes every yesterday a dream of happiness

and every tomorrow a vision of hope.

Look well therefore to this day

Such is the salutation to the dawn.

 

Sanskrit salutation to the dawn

 

 

 

 

Let the waters, who are the goddesses....Hindu Prayer

They who have the ocean as their eldest

Flow out of the sea, purifying themselves, never resting.

Indra, the bull and the thunderbolt, opened a way for them,

let the waters, who are goddesses, help me here now.

The waters of the sky or those that flow,

those that are dug out or those that arise by themselves, 

those pure and clear waters that seek the ocean as their goal----

let the waters, who are the goddesses, help me now.

Those in whose midst King Varuna moves, 

looking down upon the truth and falsehood of people,

those pure and clear waters that drip honey---

let the waters, who are the goddesses, help me now.

Those among whom King Varuna and Soma, and all the gods

drink in ecstasy the exhilarating nourishment,

those into whom Agni Of-all-men entered---

let the waters, who are the goddesses, help me now.