Tecumseh: Life Vision & Death Song
“So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide. Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, even a stranger, when in a lonely place. Show respect to all people and grovel to none. When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself. Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision. When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.”
Tecumtha (March 1768? – 5 October 1813) or Tekamthi, usually known as Tecumseh, was a Native American mystic, warrior, and military leader of the Shawnee and a large tribal confederacy.
Or in the words of one Mahayogi we find this following message:
“O human beings, you are fortunate. The clarion call of the Universal has reached you. Not only has the call come, but you are hearing it and it is vibrating in every cell of your body. Will you now lie in the corner of your house as an inert being and waste your time by clinging to old skeletons and bemoaning them? The Supreme Being is calling you in the roar of the ocean, in the thunder of the clouds, in the speed of lightning, in the meteor’s flaming fires. Nothing good will come from idleness. Get up and awake the clouded chivalry of your dormant youth. It may be that the path is not strewn with flowers and that inferiority complex will be attempting to hold fast your each advancing step, but even then you have to proceed onwards tearing the shroud of darkness. You will tear the thick darkness of despair as you advance in the racing chariot radiant with the sun’s brilliance towards the attainment of the Supreme state.” – Sadguru
Thanks Satyam for Tecumseh’s inspirational words and the podcast. Went to an All-Tribal Indian Pow Wow at Garden of the Gods a few weekends ago. Very uplifting. I will keep the podcast in my “Satyam arsenal” for snowy days. Well we had one this past Sat., woke up to 7 inches of unexpected white bliss. The beautiful Colorado sunshine took care of it in quick fashion, although our outdoor yoga class had to move inside this a.m. There was something oddly beautiful about the golden aspens and fall tree colors standing out in the heavy snow coated branches. Looks like you had a great weekend as we checked out pics. of the grandkids at Greenstreet Gardens’ Corn Maze. Enjoy the beautiful days.
Namaskar