Idioms and proverbs from India

Uske ghar mein der hai andher nahi

There is delay in his house but not injustice

Meaning: In god's house there might be delay in serving justice but never overlooked.

Uski lathi mein awaaz nahi hai

His stick doesn't make noise.

Meaning: God's justice

Ram milaee jodi, ek aandha, ek kodhi

God made match, one is blind and the other is a leper

Meaning: Made for each other in a negative manner.

Choona lagana

To put an alkaline paste

Meaning: To dupe someone

Gadhe ke sir pe se singh gayab hona

The horn on the head of a donkey vanishes

Meaning: To be missing

Kheesaee billi khamba noche

Embarrassed cat scratches a pillar

Meaning: To be embarrassed

Hathi si chal

Walk like an elephant

Meaning: No care attitude

Bheegi billi

Wet cat 

Meaning: Scared person

Baap bada na bhaiya, sabse bada rupaiya

Neither is the father nor the brother are big, only money is big.

Meaning: Money rules over relationships as well.

Aasteen ka saap

Snake of the sleeve

Meaning: The decietful is very closely related or known

Garibi mein atta geela

The dough is runny in poverty

Meaning: In adversity, everything takes a bad turn.

Jale pe namak chidkna

To sprinkle salt on the burn

Meaning: To add to the miseries

Ghada charya khet na paap na punya

To let the donkey graze in the farm, you will not reap friut nor sin

Meaning: Meaningless activity

Bhawan ke ghar der hai andher nahi

There is delay in god's house not darkness

Meaning: All is fair in life even if there are slight delays.

Laatoen ke bhoot batoen se nahi mante

The ghost of feet don't agree to talks

Meaning: Those who are stubborn will not be easliy convinced by logical talking.

Jaisi karni vaisi bharni

What you do , so shall you fill

Meaning: You will reap as you sow

Hing lage na phitkari, rang bhi chowka aeh

No need for asafoetida or potash alum to get colour

Meaning: To have a gain without much effort

Lohe ke chane chabana

To chew iron pellets

Meaning: To be confronted by an incredibly difficult task

Sabr ka phal mitha hota hai

The fruit of patience is sweet

Meaning: Patience is virtue

Muh me sone ki chamch le kar paida hona

To be be born with a gold spoon in the mouth 

Meaning: To be born rich

Beeta hua pal vapas nahi aata

Gone time does not come back

Meaning: Don't dwell in past

Time doesn't come back so no point wasting time

Dushman ke dant khatte karna

To make the teeth of enemy sour

Meaning: To defeat the enemy

Dhobte to tinke ka sahara

Those who are drowning get help of a twig 

Meaning: Even the smallest of the thing can help those in dire need

Dhoop me bal safed karna

To whiten hair in the sun 

Meaning: To get experience as age progresses

Ghar ki murgi dal brabar

Pet chicken is like lentil

Meaning: Not to realize the worth of loved ones

Hawa se batein karna

To talk to the wind

Meaning: As fast as the wind

Ghee ke diye jalana

To light oil lamp full of ghee (clarified butter)

Meaning: To rejoice

Chalti ka naam gadi

That which runs is called a car

Meaning: When the things are running smoothly, let it be

Dal me kuch kala hai

There is sometging black in the lentil

Meaning: Something is fishy

Jaisi karni, vasi bharni

To get results according to actions

Meaning: You reap as you sow

Apne mouh miya mithu

To have a mouth like a parrot

Meaning: To praise one ownself

Andha kya chahe, do aankh

What does the blind desires , but ofcourse eyesight

Meaning: To desire just the perfect thing

Chor chor mausare bhai

Thieves are cousins

Meaning: Evil attracts evil

Ulta chor kotwal ko datein

The thief scolds the police officier 

Meaning: Offence is the best defence

Lakeer ka fakir

Master of a line

Meaning: To go about the same old beaten path

Aant bhala tho sab bhala

If the end is good then all is good

Meaning: All's well that ends well

Sau sunar ki, ek lohar ki

Hundred blows of goldsmith is comparable to one blow of ironsmith 

Meaning: One powerful blow is comparable to a hundred smaller blows

Ooth ke mouh me jeera

Cumin in camel's mouth

Meaning: A very small gain as compared to the the larger gain expected

Bandar kya jane adrak ka swad

Monkey doesn't know the taste of ginger

Meaning: Those who don't know, can't appreciate

Pani pani hona

To become water water

Meaning: To be embarrassed

Ab pachtay hot kya jab chidiya chug gayi khet

What is the use of repenting now when the bird has eaten the harvest

Meaning: No use repenting when it is too late to undo the damage

Aap bhale to jag bhala

Good person sees the whole world as good

Meaning: Good person sees the whole world as good

Ek teer do nishane

One arrow, two targets

Meaning: To achieve two things with one means

Kaan ka kaccha hona

To be weak of ears

Meaning: To believe everything one hears

Thota chana baje ghana

Hollow lentil makes more noise

Meaning: Those who are not capable of delivering talk more

Ek haath se taali nahi bajati

You can not clap with one hand

Meaning: It takes two

Nau do gayara

Nine plus two makes eleven

Meaning: To run away

Ek aur ek gayaraha

One plus one makes eleven

Meaning: Strength in unity

Bahti ganga me hath dona

To wash ones hand in the river

Meaning: To be an opportunist

Ulti ganga bahana

Meaning: To go against the law of nature

Nach na jane agan tedha

One doesn’t know how to dance and blames it on the stage being uneven

Meaning: To blame the means available rather than capability

900 chuhe khake billi haj ko chali

Cat went to pray after eating 900 rats

Meaning: Pretending to be innicent after many sins

Hathi ke dant dekhane ke aur khane ke aur

Elephant has two set of teeth-one to show off and the other to chew with

Meaning: What you see is not necessarily true

Jo garjte hai vo baraste nahi

Those who thunder don’t pour

Meaning: Those who talk don’t perform

Famous quotes by Gautam Buddha

• “All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.”
• “Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”
• “Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”
• “You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.”
• “The mind is everything. What you think you become.”
• “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
• “Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.”
• “Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.”
• “To understand everything is to forgive everything”
• “We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.”
• “The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.”
• “You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself”
• “An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.”
• “When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky”
• “However many holy words you read,However many you speak,What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?”
• “A jug fills drop by drop.”
• “The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.”
• “Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.”
• “Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.”
• “A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.”
• “There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.”
• “The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.”
• “Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.”
• “Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.”
• “The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.”
• “No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”
• “The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.”
• “Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.”
• “Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.”
• “Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.”
• “What we think, we become.”
• “To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others”
• “Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.”
• “He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.”
• “To keep the body in good health is a duty...otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.”
• “There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.”
• “Life is suffering.”
• “Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.”
• “Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.”

आरती प्रीतम प्यारी की, कि बनवारी नथवारी की - Arti Preetam Pyaari Ki

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जय श्री राधे कृष्ण"

आरती प्रीतम प्यारी की, कि बनवारी नथवारी की

दुहुन सिर कनक मुकुट छलके

दुहुन श्रुति कुण्डल भल हलके

दुहुन दृग प्रेम सुधा छलके

चसीले बैन, रसीले नैन, गसीले सैन

दुहुन मैनन मनहारी की

कि बनवारी नथवारी की

आरती प्रीतम प्यारी की, कि बनवारी नथवारी की

दुहुनि दृग चितवनि पर वारी

दुहुनि लट लटिकनि छवि न्यारी

दुहुनि भौं मटकनि अति प्यारी

रसन मुख पान, हंसन मुस्कान, दसन दमकान

दुहुनि बेसर छवि न्यारी की

कि बनवारी नथवारी की

आरती प्रीतम प्यारी की, कि बनवारी नथवारी की

एक उर पीतांबर फहरे, एक उर नीलांबर लहरे

दुहुन उर लर मोतिन छहरे

कनकानन कनक, किंकिनी झनक, नुपुरन भनक

दुहुन रुन झुन धुनि प्यारी की

कि बनवारी नथवारी की

आरती प्रीतम प्यारी की, कि बनवारी नथवारी की

एक सिर मोर मुकुट राजे

एक सिर चूनर छवि साजे

दुहुन सिर तिरछे भल भ्राजे

संग ब्रजबाल, लाडली लाल, बांह गल डाल

‘कृपालु’ दुहुन दृग चारि की

कि बनवारी नथवारी की

आरती प्रीतम प्यारी की, कि बनवारी नथवारी की

"जय श्री राधे कृष्ण"

Surdas - Indian Poet

करत करत अभ्यास के, जड़मति होत सुजान रसरी आवत जात ते, 

सिल पर परत निसान.हरी दर्शन की प्यासीअखियाँ हरी दर्शन की प्यासी (३)

देखियो चाहत कमल नैन को..निसदिन रहेत उदासीअखियाँ निसदिन रहेत उदासी..

अखियाँ हरी दर्शन की प्यासीआये उधो फिरी गए आँगन..

दारी गए गर फँसी..अखियाँ हरी दर्शन की प्यासी..

अखियाँ हरी दर्शन की प्यासी..

केसर तिलक मोतियाँ की माला..

ब्रिन्दावन को वासी..अखियाँ हरी दर्शन की प्यासी..

अखियाँ हरी दर्शन की प्यासी..

कहोके मंकी कोवु न जाने..

लोगन के मन हासी..

अखियाँ हरी दर्शन की प्यासी..

अखियाँ हरी दर्शन की प्यासी..

सूरदास प्रभु तुम्हारे दरस बिन..

लेहो करवट कासी..

अखियाँ हरी दर्शनदरसन की प्यासी..

अखियाँ हरी दर्शन की प्यासी.. 

The group of 16th-century Hindi poets, four of whom were disciples of Vallabha, and four of his son and successor, Vitthala.

The greatest of the group was Surdas, a blind singer whose descriptions of the exploits of the child-god Krishna are the highlights of his collection of poetry, the Sursagar, is admired throughout the Hindi-speaking areas of northern India. 

It is particularly rich in its details of daily life and in its sensitive perception of human emotion, the parent's for the child and the maiden's for her lover.  Other members of the Astchap group were Paramananddas, Nanddas, Karsandas, Govindswami, Kumbh-andas, Chitaswami, and Chaturbhujdas. What is commonly spoken of as Hindu is actually a range of languages, from Maithili in the east to Rajasthani in the west. 

The first major work in Hindi is the 12th-century epic poem Prthviraj Rasau, by Chand Bardai of Lahore, which recounts the feats of Prithviraj, the last Hindu king of Delhi before the Islamic invasions. 

The work evolved from the tradition maintained at the courts of the Rajputs. 

Noteworthy also is the poetry of the Persian poet Amir Khosrow, who wrote in the Awadhi dialect. 

Most of the literature in Hindi is religious in inspiration; in the late 15th and early 16th centuries, the reform-minded Kabir, for example, wrote sturdy short poems in which he sought to reconcile Islam and Hinduism. 

The most celebrated author in Hindi is Tulsidas, who renounced the world early in life and spent his days in Benares as a religious devotee. He wrote much, mostly in Awadhi, and focussed Hinduism on the worship of Rama. 

His most important work is the Ramcharit-manas, which is based on the Sanskrit Ramayana. More than any other work it has become a Hindu sacred text for the Hindi-speaking area and annually has been staged in the popular Ram Lila festival. 

Outstanding among the followers of Vallabha, philosopher and bhakti advocate of the Middle Ages, is the blind poet Surdas (died 1563), who composed countless bhajans (chants) in praise of Krishna and Radha, which are collected in the Sursagar. 

While many of the bhakti poets were of modest origin, an exception was Mira Bai, a princess of Jodhpur, who wrote her famous lyrics both in Hindi and Gujarati; the quality of her poetry, still very popular, is not as high, however, as that of Surdas. Significant also is the religious epic Padmavati by Jayasi, a Muslim from former Oudh state. Written in Awadhi (c. 1540), the epic is composed according to the conventions of Sanskrit poets. 

The 18th century saw the beginning of a gradual transformation from the older forms of religious lyric and epic to new literary forms influenced by Western models that began to be known. The new trends reached their pinnacle in the work of Prem Chand (died 1936), whose novels especially Godan and short stories depict common rural life; and in the work of Harishchandra of Benares (died 1885), honoured as Bharatendu, who wrote in the Braj Bhasa dialect.

Some of the modern Indo-Aryan languages have literary traditions reaching back centuries, with enough textual continuity to distinguish Old, Middle, and Modern Bengali, Gujarati, and so on. Bengali can trace its literature back to Old Bengali charya-padas, late Buddhist verses thought to date from the 10th century; Gujarati literature dates from the 12th century Shalibhadra's Bharateshvara-bahubali-rasa and to a period when the area of western Rajasthan and Gujarat are believed to have had a literary language in common, called Old Western Rajasthani. 

Jñaneshvara's commentary on the Bhagavadgita in Old Marathi dates from the 13th century and early Maithili from the 14th century, Jyotishvara's Varna-ratnakara, while Assamese literary work dates from the 14th and 15th centuries Madhava Kandali's translation of the Ramayana, Shankaradeva's Vaisnavite works. Also of the 14th century are the Kashmiri poems of Lalla Lallavakyani, and Nepali works have also been assigned to this epoch. 

The work of Jagannath Das in Old Oriya dates from the 15th century.Amir Khosrow used the term hindvi in the 13th century, and he composed couplets that contained Hindi. In early times, however, other dialects were predominant in the Madhya-desha as literary media, especially Braj Bhasa, Surdas' Sursagar, 16th century, and Awadhi, Ramcaritmanas of Tulsidas, 16th century. In the south, in Golconda, Urdu poetry was seriously cultivated in the 17th century, and Urdu poets later came north to Delhi and Lucknow. Punjabi was used in Sikh works as early as the 16th century, and Sindhi was used in Sufi (Islamic) poetry of the 17th-19th centuries. 

In addition, there is evidence in late Middle Indo-Aryan works for the use of early New Indo-Aryan; e.g., provincial words and verses are cited. The creation of linguistic states has reinforced the use of certain standard dialects for communication within a state in official transactions, teaching, and on the radio. 

In addition, attempts are being made to evolve standardized technical vocabularies in these languages. Dialectal diversity has not ceased, however, resulting in much bilingualism; for example, a native speaker of Braj Bhasa uses Hindi for communicating in large cities such as Delhi. 

Moreover, the attempt to establish a single national language other than English continues. This search has its origin in national and Hindu movements of the 19th century down to the time of Mahatma Gandhi, who promoted the use of a simplified Hindi-Urdu, called Hindustani. 

The constitution of India in 1947 stressed the use of Hindi, providing for it to be the official national language after a period of 15 years during which English would continue in use. When the time came, however, Hindi could not be declared the sole national language; English remains a co-official language. Though Hindi can claim to be the lingua franca of a large population in North India, other languages such as Bengali have long and great literary traditions--including the work of Nobel Prize winner Rabindranath Tagore, and equal status as intellectual languages, so that resistance to the imposition of Hindi exists.