School Prayer
Guru Vandanam:
gurur brahmA gururvishNuhu gururdEVO mahESwaraha
guruh s AkshAt parabrahmA tasmai See guravEnamaha
Saraswati Vandanam:
saraswatee namastubhyam varadE kAma roopiNee
vidyArambham karshyAmi siddhir bhavatu mE sadA
padma patra viSAIAkshi padma KEsara varNinee
nityam padmAlaya devi sAmAm pAtu saraswatee
Shanti Mantra:
| Om Saha návavatu | Om-supreme god; saha-together; nau-both/ all; avatu-may he protect |
|---|---|
| saha nau bhunaku | saha-together; nau-both/ all; bhunaktu be nourished/ energized |
| Saha viryam karavāvahai | saha-together; var yam-energy; karavāv ahai-work (kara=hand; avahai-bring into use) |
| Tejasvi nāvadhitamastu | tejaswi = having great energy; nau= both; adhi- intellect/ study; tama = higher degree; astu-so be it |
| Mā vidvişāvahai | Mă-not be; vidvis-animosity; ava hai=bring/ have |
| Om Shanth, Shantih, Shanth | shantih-peace |
Jaya Jaya He Telangana:
Jaya jayahé telańgāna janani jayakétanam
mukkōti gontukalu okkataina cétanam
taratarala caritagala tallī nirajanam
padi jillala ni pillalu pranamillina subhatarunam
jai Telaägāna – jai jai Telangāna!
Potanadi puritigadda, rudramadi viragadda
gandaragandadu komuram bhimudė ni bidda
kākatiya kalāáprabhala kāntirekha rāmappa
golukonda navábula goppa velugé chár minār
jai Telangāna – jai jai Telaāgāna!
Student Songs
I chatter, chatter as I flow
To join the brimming river
For men may come and men may go
But I go on forever
—Song of the Brook by Alfred Lord Tennyson
If you think you are beaten, you are
If you think you dare not, you don’t
If you like to win, but think you can’t
Its almost a cinch you wont
Life’s battles don’t always go
To the stronger or faster man
But soon or late the man who wins
Is the one who, thinks he can.
—Anon
Now this is the law of the Jungle
As old and as true as the sky,
And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper
But the wolf that shall break it must die,
As the creeper that girdles the tree trunk,
The law runneth forward and back
For the strength of the pack is the wolf,
And the strength of the wolf is the pack.
—The Law of the Wolves by Rudyar d Kipling
God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.
—The Serenity Prayer by Reinhold Niebuhr
Sow a thought and you reap an act;
Sow an act and you reap a habit;
Sow a habit and you reap a character;
Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
—Makepeace Thackeray
When things go wrong as they sometimes will,
When the road you’re trudging seems all up hill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high
And you want to smille, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit,
Rest if you must, but dort you quit.
Life is strange with its twists and turns
As every one of us sometimes learns
And many a failure comes about
When he might have won had he stuck it out;
Don’t give up though the pace seems slow-
You may succeed with another blow.
Success is failure turned inside out-
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,
And you never can tell just how close you are,
It may be near when it seems so far;
So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit-
It’s when things seem worst that you must not quit.
—Don’t Quit by John Greenleaf Whittier
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.
—Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore
