22 June 2009

Sanskrit Tattoos Sentences Translation for Cristina Hernandez Castro

1. If you want something, stop looking for it.
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यदि किंचिदिच्छसि, तस्यान्वेषणाद्विरम

2. When you speak, try that your words are better than silence.
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यदा वदसि,

तव शब्दाः मौनात्भद्रतराः संतु इति प्रयतस्व


3. If a bodhisattva holds on to the idea that a self, a person, a living being, or a life span exists, that person is not an authentic bodhisattva.
(The text is from the Diamond sutra, chapter 3)
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न स सुभूते बोधिसत्त्वो वक्तव्यो यस्य सत्त्वसंज्ञा

प्रवर्तेत, जीवसंज्ञा वा पुद्गलसंज्ञा वा प्रवर्तेत


4. You have to be the change you want to see in the word
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तत्परिवर्तनं त्वय्येवास्तु यज्जगति द्रष्टुमिच्छसि

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