Salutation To The Dawn from the Sanskrit

Here's my second entry for the exhibition at Ripon Cathedral. I remember so clearly the first time I heard it, it was during a Hatha Yoga Class that I attended. Ahhhh happy days. Our tutor also covered Ayurveda Medicine and philosophy. I had already studied Tibetan Buddhism so the philosophy sat easily with me. My waking up routing every day was 3 full rounds of the Salute to the Sun.....crippling at first! Ohhhh I must get back to my Yoga.

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The words are as follows:

Listen to the salutation to the dawn,
Look to this day

for it is life,

the very life of life,
In its brief course lie all the verities

and realities of our existence.

The bliss of growth,

the splendour of beauty,
For yesterday is but a dream

and tomorrow is only a vision,
But today well spent

makes every yesterday

a dream of happiness

and every tomorrow a vision of hope.

Look well therefore to this day.
Such is the salutation to the dawn.

Sadly, no matter how many pictures I took of this piece, they never came out. The piece is framed and on sale for £95.