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Top of the Tree or Mr. Gilbert & the Unlikely Yankee
A Victorian Rock Opera for the Ages
Archetypal Qualities
Sanskrit
William Gilbert


स्वाध्याय svaadhyaaya
"reflection"
Check yourself!
कॢप्ति
krtpi
"invention"
What do you want?
Kitty, Lucy Gilbert
Arthur Sullivan

Practice,
practice,
practice!
योग
yoga
"diligence"
Richard D'Oyly Carte
Helen Lenoir

Don't stop now!

Nice and neat!
गुणवत्
gunavat
"coordination"
Frank Fenris
शैलूषक
shailushaka
"inhabited by actors"
George Grossmith

What what!
परं विज्ञानात्
paramvijnaanaat
"transcendence"


शान्ति
shaanti
"composure"
Pauline Cooper
Breathe!
Let me help you!
मन्त्र mantra - Ruddigore
Shall I tell you one of poor Mad Margaret's odd thoughts? Well, then, when I am lying awake at night, and the pale moonlight streams through the latticed casement, strange fancies crowd upon my poor mad brain, and I sometimes think that if we could hit upon some word for you to use whenever I am about to relapse – some word that teems with hidden meaning – like "Basingstoke" – it might recall me to my saner self.
धर्म dharma - Ruddigore
Duty! Duty must be done
The rule applies to everyone
And painful though that duty be
to shirk the task were fiddle-dee dee!
तुला tulaa (balance) -Trial by Jury
O'er the season vernal, time may cast a shade,
Sunshine if eternal, makes the roses fade!
Time may do his duty: let the thief alone--Winter hath a beauty that is all its his own.
Fairest days are sun and shade
I am no unhappy maid!

चारित्र charitra - Charity
We will teach...of loving kindness, patience, faith, forebearance, hope and charity. And the greatest of these is charity!
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