Tamso ma jyotir gamaya

Asato ma sat gamaya

Tamso ma jyotir gamaya

Mrityor ma amritam gamaya

The lines have been taken from Brhadaranayaka Upanishad, the first time i came across them were on my school emblem and it has fascinated me ever since.Thats the simple reason why i chose it for my blog's name.

'sat' means truth and 'asat' therefore means false; 'gamaya' means 'to go' or 'to lead'; 'tamaso' is darkness; 'jyoti' means light; 'mrityu' means death; 'amrit' means immortality.So the lines basically mean:

Lead me from the false to the real

From darkness to light

And from stagnation to the ever vibrant action and living.

Recently i was reading this book named Argumentative India which had this lovely poem by Rabindranath Tagore .

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high

Where knowledge is free

Where the world has not been broken up into fragments

By narrow domestic walls

Where words come out from the depth of truth

Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection

Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way

Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit

Where the mind is led forward by thee

Into ever-widening thought and action

Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.

This too echoes the very same concept of moving from darkness towards light.

In the same vein we also have a song from Kishore Kumar target="_blank" rel="nofollow">"Aa Chal Ke Tujhe Mein Lai Ke Chalu ..."