I notice you’ve provided the opening of an HTML verse block, but the actual Bengali text to translate appears to be missing. Could you please provide the complete Bengali content that you’d like me to translate? I’m ready to work with the philosophical/reflective prose you mentioned, maintaining the HTML formatting while creating a literary translation that captures the essence and voice of the original.
101. Sometimes one must borrow time from time itself—to give oneself time to find oneself. Sometimes even emptiness feels wonderful, solitude feels good, silence feels good, stillness feels good, even the distance of beloved people feels good, and fatigue and melancholy feel good—in those moments one loves oneself so much more. Especially when the heart is heavy, hearing those two questions “Are you upset?” and “Why are you upset?” only makes the heart heavier. Better to remain quiet and give one’s heart time to heal itself. I don’t think there’s a more beautiful time than loving oneself in solitude. What could be more beautiful work than loving oneself? I love myself so deeply that whether anyone else loves me or not truly doesn’t matter to me at all.
102. Every day I try to develop the capacity to endure a thousand slights—so that someday I might become worthy of someone’s love.
103. Do you know the main difference between local dogs and foreign dogs? Local dogs have local hearts, and foreign dogs have foreign hearts. In this sense, all dogs are not the same. Some dogs eat filth—not from lack of food, but from habit.
104. If you can’t understand whose criticism to accept and whose to reject, some worthless people will infiltrate your life. There are two kinds of people whose criticism isn’t worth taking. Those who criticize without understanding or with half-knowledge. Those who engage in slander in the name of criticism. Criticism concerns work; slander concerns the person.
105. I don’t engage in pointless arguments; I place myself far above such arguments or those who make them. Getting into arguments with just anyone means lowering oneself to their level. About matters where I am confident, there’s nothing to prove. Most importantly, I pay no attention to comments from those before whom proving or not proving myself makes no difference whatsoever.
106. I am not a successful person, I do nothing and have done nothing to achieve success, I only try again and again to do my work in the best way possible—the rest happens naturally.
107. People fail in two ways: by working hard and by not working hard. Though most people say they couldn’t succeed despite so much effort, the real story is different. So when unable to succeed at some work, it’s better to remain silent without making excuses and try something else. Or this can be done: try that same work differently. One cannot run away—the main cause of failure is running away. Failing at one task means the path to success in another has opened!
108. Many people accumulate money and take on new troubles. If someone enjoys living amid troubles, then this is fine. But is there really any point in getting entangled in troubles just to accumulate more money?
109. Humans spend nearly half their lives sleeping. Imagine that! There’s no difference between sleep and death! The more one can reduce death during life, the more beautiful life becomes. People’s progress varies according to the length of their sleep. Only those can sleep peacefully for whom someone else is destroying their own sleep!
110. Irresponsibility is characterlessness, consciencelessness is stupidity. As long as we measure character by looking at reproductive organs and measure knowledge by looking at certificates, we will remain such fools!
111. The purest happiness in the world is sex, the only pure laughter belongs to children, and the completely selfless human being is the newborn.
112. Everyone likes and trusts the humble and well-mannered. This is why most hypocrites choose the path of being humble, sweet-spoken, and perfect actors. There’s no more effective weapon than humility for carrying out deception.
113. The words “I trust” are far more powerful than “I love.” People searching for love eventually lose trust and end up losing both love and themselves!
114. There’s a huge difference between movies and books—in movies, characters are created in others’ preferred colors and forms. In books, everything, all characters can be painted in one’s own colors as one likes. This is why reading books on recommendation is quite risky!
115. By supreme fortune, I was born human in this life—whether I’ll be born human next time, whether I’ll be born at all, there’s no guarantee. Only one life—it’s best to waste it happily without harming anyone. In life, one must grow at least big enough to be able to spend money and time on one’s own happiness!
116. Eighty percent of the world’s problems can be solved with money; the rest are complications of love and human conflicts. Just as controlling eating reduces the belly, controlling emotions greatly reduces expenses.
117. People need companionship most in old age, yet that’s when they become most alone. I see no reason to call someone humane who doesn’t care for the elderly!
118. I find it absurd when I see some animal-lover saving one creature’s life by feeding another creature fish, duck, chicken, beef, or goat meat. Yet they completely forget that these are also living beings. In this sense, being an impartial animal-lover is almost impossible.
119. The less one speaks, the fewer mistakes one makes. The more words, the more errors. Some make mistakes by speaking, some speak by making mistakes. Few have gotten into trouble by staying quiet.
120. Someone leaving life means the possibility of someone else entering life is created. The belief that what we expect from close people can only be found in one person is entirely wrong. There’s not just one heart like one’s own—if fate permits and one searches, more can be found.
121. God means belief. If you believe, God exists; if you don’t believe, God doesn’t exist. I read something like this in Sunil’s writing: Ghosts and God only bother believers.
122. About four and a half thousand religions exist in the world. Believers of each religion believe that only their own religion is true, all others are false. So there’s no point arguing about this—it’s a waste of time. Whatever someone wants to believe to remain self-satisfied, they should be allowed to think that. Even sleeping is better than religious arguments. Belief and argument never become friends. Every religion is true because every religion is keeping people alive somehow. It’s better to stay away from those who say otherwise—for one’s mental health.
123. There’s no conflict, no distance between the black letters of religious texts. They are all holy and beautiful. Only in human eyes do different letters take on different colors. The trouble about beautiful and ugly also arises then. Religions never conflict with each other; the conflict is mainly between the blind.
124. Religion and one’s name—both are determined for humans before they gain consciousness. There’s no credit or discredit of one’s own in either. Carrying these two choices made by others until death is called ‘identity.’ You might say identity can be changed if one wants. Why aren’t you changing it? Then I’ll also say, who are you to tell me whether I should change my identity or keep it? Look, I have no headache about your identity! Where do you get so much time from?…Beware of the agents of heaven and hell!
125. A hundred years from now, none of us currently living will be alive, though people will still talk about some of us! Isn’t that amazing!
126. Someday, typing on computers during exams, students will write, ‘Unbelievable but true that our ancestors once took exams by writing with pens on paper!’ Modernity is relative!
127. A day passing from life means moving one day closer to death. By that measure, there’s not a single person in this world who’s falling behind!
128. Not getting something doesn’t create as much painful feeling as getting and then losing it. What must be let go, even if very dear, is better not grasped!
129. What ultimately won’t happen is better finished at the start. Earlier bitterness is more palatable than later bitterness.
130. Living is harder than dying. One can die easily at will, but alas, one cannot live so easily at will!
131. Mistakes that seem childish to a mother when her daughter makes them become unbearable crimes, irritating behavior in a mother-in-law’s eyes when the daughter-in-law makes the same mistakes! A mother-in-law rarely becomes a mother.
132. Discipline that feels like guidance when one’s own mother does it feels like oppression when the mother-in-law does exactly the same thing to the daughter-in-law. This is why a daughter-in-law usually can never become a daughter.
133. Life means a bunch of time fragments—when time ends, life ends too! So every fragment of time is important!
134. If two people involved in a relationship still feel lonely, then understand that the time has come to end that relationship! No more questions after this. If questions continue, life doesn’t!
135. Sexual desire is as natural as eating habits, yet while eating when hungry isn’t a crime, satisfying sexual hunger is considered criminal by various measures. Such non-universality in satisfying hunger cannot be a healthy practice.
136. The most sacred feeling in the world is seeing smiles on the faces of children and parents. One can live for this, even die for this! Looking at children’s faces and parents’ eyes, many families survive despite hardships.
137. Keeping someone’s secret words secret, entrusted based on their faith in you, is a great act of worship. Those who spread words don’t spread them based on faces—they spread words from habit.
138. Wedding expenses and post-death expenses—both are very unnecessary expenses. The result of spending one’s hard-earned savings in one day just to feed others once is zero, even negative! People create more bad reputation by eating than by not eating!
139. Knowledge, wisdom, and intelligence—these three reveal the difference between human and inhuman.
Those who do not heed these three must surely be shunned.
140. The greedy are never compassionate, the compassionate never greedy.
141. Sex is the only laborious work at which a healthy person never shows laziness. People get servants at home or office to do all other strenuous tasks except this one. No one is truly lazy; it’s all about what the task is!
142. These days people don’t die from lack of food, they die from lack of happiness. Every suicide victim kills himself from the absence of some happiness or other. We all think treating someone means feeding them, yet a far greater treat would be giving them time to listen to and understand their sorrows. If you have adequate means and desire, the easiest thing to do in this world is what requires only money.
143. While married women have shells, vermillion, bangles, and nose rings as signs of marriage, there are no markers to identify married men. Yet both are bound by the same matrimonial bond! There’s no doubt these customs are made for men’s convenience.
144. One who lacks the beautiful vision to see my ugliness has no right to enjoy my beauty! What logic allows someone who cannot tolerate me as I am to possess me according to their wishes?
145. Whoever saves one innocent life earns merit equal to saving a human being. Whether ant or human, all life is equally dear to the Creator.
146. A person’s eating habits reveal their health and taste.
147. Friends and neighbors will want, even the day before they die, to see you trailing behind them by at least a thread, so they can die in peace!
148. Nothing in this world happens without cause. Even someone who commits seven murders has some ‘logical’ reason behind the killing. For someone who dies every moment, the death penalty is a very minor punishment—some people, finding no other way out, resort to murder!
149. There are many invisible beauties in this world that cannot be seen with open eyes—they must be seen with closed eyes. Like dreams, happiness, the feeling of love, affection. People see most when they are not seeing!
150. There’s no difference between a person without character and a rotten potato—both stink equally!
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