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  2. Upanishads - Wikipedia

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    The key-note of the old Upanishads is "know thyself," but with a much deeper meaning than that of the γνῶθι σεαυτόν of the Delphic Oracle. The "know thyself" of the Upanishads means, know thy true self, that which underlines thine Ego, and find it and know it in the highest, the eternal Self, the One without a second, which ...

  3. Doha (Indian literature) - Wikipedia

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    Doha is a very old "verse-format" of Indian poetry.It is an independent verse, a couplet, the meaning of which is complete in itself. [1] As regards its origin, Hermann Jacobi had suggested that the origin of doha can be traced to the Greek Hexametre, that it is an amalgam of two hexametres in one line.

  4. Hindu texts - Wikipedia

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    The Puranas, which mean "history" or "old", are Sanskrit texts which were composed between 3rd century BCE and 1000 CE. [46] The Puranas are a vast genre of Hindu texts that encyclopedically cover a wide range of topics, particularly legends and other traditional lore. [ 47 ]

  5. Desiderata - Wikipedia

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    In 1933, he distributed the poem in the form of a Christmas card, [1] now officially titled "Desiderata." [2] Psychiatrist Merrill Moore distributed more than 1,000 unattributed copies to his patients and soldiers during World War II. [1] After Ehrmann died in 1945, his widow published the work in 1948 in The Poems of Max Ehrmann. The 1948 ...

  6. History of agriculture in the Indian subcontinent - Wikipedia

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    However, small landholding continued to create problems for India's farmers as the limited land resulted in limited produce and limited profits. [75] Some Indian farmers. The 1991 reforms also contributed to a rise in suicides by indebted farmers in India following crop failures (e.g. Bt cotton). Various studies identify the important factors ...

  7. You Are Old, Father William - Wikipedia

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    Like most poems in Alice, the poem is a parody of a poem then well-known to children, Robert Southey's didactic poem "The Old Man's Comforts and How He Gained Them", originally published in 1799. Like the other poems parodied by Lewis Carroll in Alice, this original poem is now mostly forgotten, and only the parody is remembered. [3]

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  9. Thinking (poem) - Wikipedia

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    If you think you are beaten, you are; If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but you think you can't, It is almost a cinch you won't. If you think you'll lose, you've lost; For out in this world we find Success begins with a fellow's will It's all in the state of mind. If you think you're outclassed, you are; You've got to ...