English poets have produced some remarkable work and \u201cIf\u201d is one of the great gems. British Nobel laureate Rudyar Kipling\u2019s poem was written in 1895 and published in \u201cRewards & Fairies\u201d in 1910.<\/p>\n
“If” remains one of the most beautiful advice and inspirational gem. One can find glimpses of Bhagwad Gita, Vedic & Natural wisdom in this poem.<\/p>\n
Though the whole work is awesome, some of my favorites lines are:<\/p>\n
1. If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
\nBut make allowance for their doubting too;<\/p>\n
2. If you can dream\u2014and not make dreams your master;
\nIf you can think\u2014and not make thoughts your aim;<\/p>\n
3. If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
\nAnd treat those two impostors just the same;
\n(Like Sthitaprajna in Bhagwad Gita)<\/p>\n
4. If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
\nOr walk with Kings\u2014nor lose the common touch,<\/p>\n
\u201cIf\u201d<\/p>\n
If you can keep your head when all about you
\nAre losing theirs and blaming it on you,
\nIf you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
\nBut make allowance for their doubting too;
\nIf you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
\nOr being lied about, don\u2019t deal in lies,
\nOr being hated, don\u2019t give way to hating,
\nAnd yet don\u2019t look too good, nor talk too wise:<\/p>\n
If you can dream\u2014and not make dreams your master;
\nIf you can think\u2014and not make thoughts your aim;
\nIf you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
\nAnd treat those two impostors just the same;
\nIf you can bear to hear the truth you\u2019ve spoken
\nTwisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
\nOr watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
\nAnd stoop and build \u2019em up with worn-out tools:<\/p>\n
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
\nAnd risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
\nAnd lose, and start again at your beginnings
\nAnd never breathe a word about your loss;
\nIf you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
\nTo serve your turn long after they are gone,
\nAnd so hold on when there is nothing in you
\nExcept the Will which says to them: \u2018Hold on!\u2019<\/p>\n
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
\nOr walk with Kings\u2014nor lose the common touch,
\nIf neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
\nIf all men count with you, but none too much;
\nIf you can fill the unforgiving minute
\nWith sixty seconds\u2019 worth of distance run,
\nYours is the Earth and everything that\u2019s in it,
\nAnd\u2014which is more\u2014you\u2019ll be a Man, my son!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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