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🕒 July 26, 2026 | 👤 Aaditya Raj

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A person who has learned to master their own mind becomes their own best friend; one who hasn't becomes their own biggest obstacle.

"You have the right to work, but never to the fruit of work."
— Bhagavad Gita

पत्ता पत्ता बूटा बूटा हाल हमारा जाने है
जाने न जाने गुल ही न जाने बाग़ तो सारा जाने है

— Mir Taqi Mir

Every leaf and every plant knows my condition — only the flower pretends not to; the whole garden already knows.

Treating pleasure and pain, gain and loss, praise and blame with the same steady mind is a mark of real inner strength — not indifference, but balance.

Should India's policy focus more on domestic manufacturing?

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"The mind is everything. What you think you become."
— Buddha

इश्क़ पर ज़ोर नहीं है ये वो आतिश 'ग़ालिब'
कि लगाए न लगे और बुझाए न बने— Mirza Ghalib

Love cannot be forced, Ghalib — it is a fire that won't light on command, and won't be put out on command either.

🕊 On Self-Mastery

A person who has learned to master their own mind becomes their own best friend; one who hasn't becomes their own biggest obstacle.

🕊 On Equanimity

Treating pleasure and pain, gain and loss, praise and blame with the same steady mind is a mark of real inner strength — not indifference, but balance.