THE NP CHRONICLE : 11th SEPTEMBER

The NP Chronicle

11th September

Vinayak Narahar Bhave, also known as Vinoba Bhave (11 September 1895 – 15 November 1982), was an Indian philosopher and an advocate of nonviolence and human rights. Often called Acharya (teacher in Sanskrit), he is best known for the Bhoodan land reform movement, and is considered as the spiritual successor of Mahatma Gandhi.

Bhave was a prolific writer and scholar, and he authored several books. He interpreted and translated several religious texts across multiple languages, including the Bhagavad Gita into the Marathi under the title Geetai. His teachings combined spiritual knowledge with non-violence, and practical service, and gained wide recognition and influence across India. In 1958, he was the first recipient of the international Ramon Magsaysay Award for community leadership. He was awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour, in 1983.

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"To sum up, karma is very much needed to enable us to understand the state of our minds. We can remove our defects only when we become aware of them. Without such awareness, all efforts for progress and growth will come to naught. It is while doing work that we become aware of our defects. Vikarma is then to be employed to get rid of those defects. With ceaseless inward vikarma, we will gradually come to know how to remain detached while performing swadharma, how to remain beyond desires and passions, anger, greed, temptations and delusions. When there is a constant endeavour to purify karma, pure karma will follow naturally and effortlessly. When detached and passionless action begins to take place frequently and effortlessly, we would not even be aware of its occurrence. When karma becomes effortless and burdenless, it is transformed into akarma. Akarma, as we have seen in the Fourth Chapter, means effortless, burdenless, natural karma. The Lord has also told at the end of the Fourth Chapter of the Gita that one could learn how karma is transformed into akarma at the feet of the saints. This state of akarma cannot be described in words."

-- Vinoba Bhave 

David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was an English novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, literary critic, travel writer, essayist, and painter. His modernist works reflect on modernity, social alienation and industrialisation, while championing sexuality, vitality and instinct. Four of his most famous novels – Sons and Lovers (1913), The Rainbow (1915), Women in Love (1920), and Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928)  – were the subject of censorship trials for their radical portrayals of romance, sexuality, and use of explicit language.

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"Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen."

-- D.H. Lawrence

"One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it, and the journey is always towards the other soul."

-- D.H. Lawrence

William Sydney Porter (born William Sidney Porter; September 11, 1862 – June 5, 1910), better known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American writer known primarily for his short stories, though he also wrote poetry and non-fiction. His works include "The Gift of the Magi", "The Caballero's Way", "The Duplicity of Hargraves", and "The Ransom of Red Chief", as well as the novel Cabbages and Kings. Porter's stories are known for their naturalist observations, witty narration, and surprise endings.

"Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating."

-- O. Henry

"We can't buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer."

-- O. Henry

Today is:

▪︎ 9/11 Remembrance Day / Patriot Day

▪︎ National Forest Martyrs Day in India 

▪︎ Digvijay Diwas in India 

▪︎ Birth anniversary of O. Henry, D.H. Lawrence 

▪︎ Death anniversary of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Nikita Khrushchev