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Couplets of Nectar


Couplets of Nectar 

 Oh mind! 

1. Those negative habitual patterns

haunt as though nothing else matters


2. Durvāsanā pratīkāra daśakam

serves as a Vedanta practicum


3. Self-ignorance is the foremost negative habit

Attack it, You are not the body that you inhabit


4. You are not the body, mind or senses

Reinforce it daily as a self-defense


5. Worries of future is a nightmare

Dismiss them with the reality glare


6. Desires flood in without invitation

Burst them with objective deflation


7. Anger comes with a vengeance

Tackle it with the antidote of patience


8. Greed sneaks in as an absolute want

Be happy and content, to hit it hard 


9. Extra-long tongue can be a trap

Discipline it with facts as a strap


10. Replace harsh words with soft speech

 Conquer chatter with no speech


11. Avoid company of materialism

Engage in company of realism


12. Ignore the criticism, 

Stop the day dreamism


13.  Burst the bubble of ego with a needle

Know that everything is just a wheedle


14. Shake up the sleepy with intense japa

Wake up with bhajans and holy yatra


15. Body is a temple and take care of it

Don't pamper it'; don't neglect it


16. Take medicines if you fall sick

Take refuge if you feel weak


17. Give up unnecessary relationships,

Forgo accumulations and transactions


18. Look at the perishable nature of pleasure

'This too shall pass' is the nature of leisure


19. Dukha is only for the body and mind

̄Atma is forever sukha as defined


20. Avoid sticky clingy attachment to spouse

Or else you could be bounded to the house


21. Grind all attachment with discrimination

Replace cruelty with compassion 


22. Avoid categorizing good, bad and ugly

Keep one foot out the door snugly


23. De addict from slavery of sense organs

Stay alone with no connections


24. Overcome laziness with quick movements

Overcome restlessness with calmness


25. Take a break and sit quietly 

Chant Om shanti thrice slowly


26. Overcome drowsiness with alertness

Overcome duality with vision of non-duality


27. There is only God, nothing else

Reinforce the truth of what is 


28. Don't point out weaknesses of others

Talk only about your own weaknesses


29. Handle anger by seeing ātma everywhere

Speak only good things with everyone


30. God is here, so no fear is for devotees

I am God, so no fear is for Vedanta students


31. Past is gone, don't dwell in the past

Future yet to come, so do your best 


32. Give up actions, they bind you with pain

Replace hatred with friendship


33. Body will one day be in ashes 

Ignore the wrinkles and hot flashes


34. Understand the nature of obstacles

Understand the nature of differences


35. If you are blamed to be useless and small 

Take it with humor and say I am all


36. Forgive immaturity with compassion

Planetary influence is also a fashion


37 Don't look at the horoscope 

As it may become a horror scope


38. Clock is ticking and organs are falling

Bird is flying as forest is in fire


39. Study Vedanta now and here

Get liberated now and here


40. Churn the Vedanta milky ocean 

To get out of the samsara notion


41. Adorn the jewel of contentment 

Get rid of the material resentment


42. Nectar of ātma jñana is in this pot

Forty two couplets that Lakshmi brought 



Based on Swami Pramarthananda talks on 'Durvāsāna pratīkāra daśakam' by Swami Vidyaranya 




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