A piece of wisdom from
June 30, 2025 · Monday
The quote
“For the protection of the good, for the destruction of the wicked, and to re-establish dharma, I am born age after age.”
— Krishna · The Bhagavad Gita
The concept
Ikigai
The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life
Ikigai (þöƒÒüìþö▓µûÉ) is the reason you wake up in the morning. It lives at the meeting point of what you love, what you are good at, what the world needs, and what you can be paid for. Discover yours ÔÇö practically, not theoretically.…
A practice for today
Try this once today: the lesson of Ikigai. The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life.
From the Bhagavad Gita
Verse 2.22
वासांसि जीर्णानि यथा विहाय नवानि गृह्णाति नरोऽपराणि। तथा शरीराणि विहाय जीर्णान्यन्यानि संयाति नवानि देही॥
“As a person sheds worn-out clothes and puts on new ones, so does the embodied self shed worn-out bodies and take on new ones.”
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