Thank You facebook !!

~~~~~~ Thank You  facebook ! ~~~~~~~
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You said;
'' Connect with the people you know,
With the friends, and others,......"
And You helped me indeed.
Because I had been seeking a way,
- to connect to myself first,
And then with the rest of my world.
Because until I am connected with myself,
I am always fragmented, confused, uncertain,
About myself,
And about the world around me.
About my past, present and the future,
And the same of the world.
I am not Whole.
Not even an Entity,
So no question of having an Identity,
-to say my own.
You have been the route,
Through which I connected to myself,
I recollected myself,
-To my Real, Timeless, Whole Being,
That I am ever.
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Thank You facebook !!

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Atithi (Guest) !!

~~~~~~~~Atithi (Guest)~~~~~~
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Every Evening,

I go for a long walk.

And before returning,

Sit for a while in the park.

Adjacent to the temple,

-In the third street.

Where I saw you,

-My Friend,

We met each-other,
Some day.

For the first time,

-2 years ago.

Something brought us near each-other.

But we had no commitments.

We just liked each-other.

Certainly,

It was not a 'Romance' !!

We became nice friends,

But strange,

We never invited one-another,

To our home !

The days have gone,

The seasons came-in and left,

Sometimes I remember you,

Sometimes I feel,

You are there,

Some-where around.

And suddenly,

I shall be going to catch your sight.

I know, it's my dream,

An imagination only,

And I get-up from the bench,

Where we shared our conversations,

Where we met without compulsions,

And commitments.

and the matters of very personal life,

Though,
Neither you,

Nor me interfered in our fates.
Neither you of mine !
Nor I, of yours !

But we kept chatting,

-in silence,

Watching the children play, love and quarrel.

again and again,

Today I noted-down,

-wrote-down,

This,

-in my diary.

Cause,

I'm leaving this place today,

And may be, meet you sometimes again,

There once more,

Through the memory-lane,

-through my diary,
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Atithi !! 




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A note added on July21,2010.
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-Originally written as a comment 
in face-book by myself, in reply,
to a friend.
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Thanks Alicia,

Atithi may be a name, but in Hindi and Sanskrit,

it means;

-A Guest, 

We say : Atithi Devo Bhava: 

The Guest is God.

In other words,

God may visit someday as Guest, and you may not know.

So don't leave it to chance.

Be prepared and ready !

Because God is one, and might be visiting every devotee and

even non-devotee, because (S)He has to look after all beings.

In my life, God came in such a way, as described in the poem.

Not literally, but like-wise, and I didn't fail in recognizing 

Him / Her.

So metaphorically I narrated His / Her visit in this poem.

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Spouse.

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Spouse

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Two half-some,

make ONE Whole,

In one-self,

How-so-ever,

May one try,

Remains less than,

Or equal to half,

However,

The Other one half,

- may spoil,

The best efforts of,

- the other half,

And prove oneself,

A bitter-half.

But when both are willing,

And determined,

Make a Best-One,

One and Complete Whole !

Whole and Sole.

A peaceful One Soul.

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vibgyor !!

~~~V i b g y o r !!~~


~~(R A I N B O W )~~




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I see you,
In the distant sky, 
On the Horizon,
Many a times so very close,
I felt like touching You !
They said;
"You are there  !"
But instead,
I found themselves there !
We have been playing this game since long,
Since times immemorial !
We have been pointing-out the way to it,
-To each-other,
-To one-another.
And every-one fell victim to this illusion,
That every-one else, except him/herself,
Is away from you !
You kept playing this game with us,
All the while !
It brings tears to the eyes of every-one,
-Until one is dead,
And the mourners,
Sometimes see a glimpse of you vibgyor,
In the tears of the dead !
And sometimes in the tears,
That the mourners themselves shed !!

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*This poem was inspired from;
Arunachala-Akshara-Mana-Malai,
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#.86.Though Thou hast freed me free 
from the delusion (desire for the things
of the world) and made me mad for Thee, 
Thou hast not yet freed me from illusion,
"Avidya", (nescience), O Arunachala !!
[composed by Sri Ramana Maharshi,
in praise of Lord Arunachaleshwara(Shiva).]
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