Thought and Awareness of Thought.

~~Thought and Awareness of Thought~~
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Keep your observation alert, because there
are thoughts which though look very logical,
quite rational, but in fact deny truth,reality,
and the life itself. Thoughts as a rule, corrode
the sensitivity, distort your sensibility, and 
influence your consciousness, they condition
you to fit into some specific behavior pattern,
to conform to the groove, that is  society, family,
nationalism, ideals, religion, tradition, discipline,
virtue, and sacrifice. Narrow-down your vision
and obstruct the clear view of truth, the 'fact',
which is otherwise bare before us. Only a mind
that is alert, attentive to the 'fact' and free of 
'thought', free of verbal interpretation, or its 
justification in any way, understands the nature
of thought, sees how thought modifies our way of 
observation, while it is the observation of life 
with naked eyes, that should lead one to the right
way of thinking.Thought always aims at achieving
some goal, 'somewhere' in 'future', and the future
is again projected by itself. And, projecting an 
imagined 'future', Thought defines and proposes 
to achieve that 'future', which is never a reality,
through a particular course of action, which 
ignores all causes and reasons that help in 
happening of anything. So, thought is always 
political. Always divisive. It divides the human 
consciousness in 'faiths', concepts, beliefs, '-isms',
nationalities, which are but a sophisticated form
of tribalism. It denies the present, imposes an 
imagination over it, and makes one strive for 
that imagination, which is a figment of thought
only. It can expand to monstrous proportions, 
and makes you believe that you are some great
soul, perhaps an 'avatar',which is in fact a great
illusion only, you have been caught by thought
only.Thought gives rise to faiths, beliefs, dogmas,
In anticipation of some future heaven, release, 
'Moksha', redemption, a better next birth after 
death. And one doubts, if thought could ever know
the death ! It is deterioration ad infinitum.
It is not Thought, but sheer thoughtlessness.
Then there is another kind of Thought which is 
thoughtful, mindful, careful, attentive, polite, but
never political. Because that would be a paradox in
itself.It has no aims to achieve.It has no future. It 
lives in the 'now', and is deathless.
If I know, how thought binds me with beliefs, 
faiths, fears, anticipations and imaginary hopes, 
I will never fall a prey to thought. I will never be
caught into its chains. Then I will see very clearly,
how thought deceives me in the lure of such things,
how incites me to be prepared for the 'Supreme 
Sacrifices', and kill my brethren, in the name of cult, 
religion, country, race.
If I am thoughtful, mindful about the cunningness
oddities, obstinacy, obtuseness and acuteness of
Thought, I will use it as a  technical instrument,
analytically.
It can not and will not intrude my understanding 
of myself as a simple human being.
This is the creative aspect of thought, when it is 
a tool in the hands of understanding.


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The Paradox

*~*~The Paradox.~*~*
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Many a slaves,
Many a selves,
In Search of the Their Lord,
Utterly failed,
Bitterly frustrated,
Coined-out,
A Lord,
Out of their own,
Own collective imagination,
And their own 'Free-will'.
This Lord Himself was,
A slave to their whims,
Hardly could they realize,
In their new-found euphoria,
That this Lord was their own creation,
Their own brain-child.
But they bowed before Him,
And He too derived,
A subtle pleasure,
A gratification indeed,
An apparent Existence
Of His own,
Independent of them.
He too was amused,
And bemused,
By the idea,
Of being a Lord of them all.
And it never occurred to Him,
That He was not the Master,
But only a slave,
Of His own slaves !!
They all joined each other,
On a Sacred Journey,
To Find out the 'Truth';
The 'One' Super-Lord,
Of them all.
It was nevertheless,
A fascinating, Captivating journey,
The 'Pilgrimage'.
The cavalcade proceeded,
The journey is never-ending.
The joy of it keeps them busy,
And they are marching past,
Swiftly,
Marching ahead,
On and On.
And The God just laughs at them,
Occasionally cries or wails to,
Over their misfortune. 


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~~The Missing Link~~

"The missing Link".

by Vinay Vaidya on Wednesday,

 November 24, 2010 at 9:53am

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यदीशितुर्वीक्षणमीक्षितार-

मवीक्ष्य तन्मानसिकेक्षणम् स्यात् ।

न दृष्टुरन्यः परमो हि तस्य

वीक्षा स्वमूले प्रविलीय निष्ठा ॥

(सद्दर्शनम्‌ श्लोक २२)

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यत् ईशितुः वीक्षणम्‌ ईक्षितारं अवीक्ष्य,

तत् मानसिक अवेक्षणम् स्यात् ।

न दृष्टुः अन्यः परमः हि,

तस्य वीक्षा स्वमूले प्रविलीय निष्ठा ॥

(Sat-Darshanam, -Sri Ramana Maharshi; 

-Verse 22)

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Observation of the Supreme,

Without observing the observer,

Is mental observation.

Because The Absolute is, 

Never apart from the observer.

Real observation is,

When the Absolute is observed,

As the only source of the 'self' ,

And the 'self' is dissolved there-in.

(Incidently, I remember a note;

"When J. Krishnamurti reviewed his 

own book, :

"Krishnamurti's Notebook."

-just for fun , where he said about his 

most famous quote :

"The observer is the observed"

*An Excerpt :

[The concept I found most difficult to 

understand was that of 

'the observer is the observed'.

 I finally came to an interpretation of 

this :

the self looks at all its inner states of 

being with its own conditioned mind 

and therefore what it sees is a replica 

of itself; what we are is what we see. 

The conception of a superior self which

can direct one's other selves is an illusion,

for there is only one self. When K said

in other talks;

'The experiencer is the experienced''

and,

'The thinker is the thought',

he was merely using different words to 

express the same idea.  

-from:

 'Life and Death of J.Krishnamurti' 

-Mary Lutyens, ch.14,(1967),

-"Ideals are brutal things" ]

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I sincerely feel that the statement given 

by J.Krishnamurtiholds in both the states,

1. When One has transcended the 'Known', 

and has come face to face with that ;

"Freedom from the known",

2. When has not yet Transcended that 

barrier.

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And here lies the evidence from the lips 

of Sri Ramana.

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The Joy of Tranquil Ocean.

~~~~The Joy of Tranquil Ocean~~~~

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My heart is a tranquil ocean,
Yet,
When I see you,
The waves of joy make,
The waters dance !


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Ode to Peacock.

~~~~~Ode to Peacock~~~~~
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Peacock !


Your colors !!
Bright fast, dull and light and dark,
Of every hue and shade,
Lie hidden in your wings,
Awaiting the rains and clouds,
with verve and joy,
Trying to reach every corner of the sky !
To meet the Rainbow,
Their own God,
-And the Beloved,
I just wonder,
How you constrain them,
Within you,
During all those dry and arid times,
For so long !


O Peacock !!


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Eka-Akshara. ~एकाक्षर~

~~~Eka-Akshara ~~~एकाक्षर~~~


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स्थित्वा सुखासने भगवन्‌ 
दूर्वादलम्‌ प्रपश्यसि ।
दूरयसि वारयसि क्लेशान्‌
भक्तानाम्‌ तस्मात्‌ प्रभो ॥
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Just by (way of) Sitting in "sukhaasana".
(a comfortable position),
And looking at "Doorvadalaani"
( the Holy grass you relish,)
You destroy / remove away
the troubles and miseries of the devotees
O Lord !
You are Great indeed !
I bow before You !!
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Monolith (सदभिज्ञा)

~~~~~~~Monolith (सदभिज्ञा)~~~~~~~
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सदभिज्ञा 
मूषको उवाच :
भीतोऽस्मि दृष्ट्वा शत्रुम्‌ ।
रक्ष माम्‌ परमेश्वर ॥
गणपति उवाच :
मा भीः !
यदा द्रक्ष्यसि ब्रह्म त्वं, तव-मम देहे तथा रिपोः ।
तदा गन्तासि निर्भयत्वं सुखं शाश्वतं स्थिरं ॥

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Monolith

Seeing the serpent in the body of the Lord,

Ganesha's vehical (mooshaka) said :

O Lord ! 

I'am afraid at the sight of my enemy.

Please protect me, save me !

The Lord answered :

Don't fear !

When you shall see the one and the same 

Brahman (Self) in your and my,

And also in (the body of) the enemy,

Shall then you find the fearlessness,

And also,

The lasting, eternal happiness. 

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(Notes : added on 20-11-2010).
A mail written in response to one from 
Eka Akshara,
where-in it was said that my 'comment' and the
related picture are quite in tune with one-another.

"....... You know, 

Not only that, but the also enhance 

the beauty 

of each other.

For example,

When the vehicle 

of 

The Lord Ganesha

complains about the 

fear of his 

enemy

(the serpent) The Lord 

instructs him, to

'see' 

in Himself (The Lord ), himself

(the Mooshaka), and 

the enemy 

(the 

serpent), the same 'Brahman' i.e. 

the 

common Intelligence-

Principle, He is

giving him 

the Supreme Vedantik 

Teaching also.

"सदभिज्ञा" means :

The right Understanding of The Truth.

(

सत्‌ +अभिज्ञा) 

The title Monolith has two meanings :

1. A stone image carved-out from a 

single stone.

2.The Indivisible (Akhanda) , Which 

contains all 

and everything 

(The 'Sat

-Tattwa').

So it can be interpreted in 2 ways. 

In terms of  

simple poetic value, 

and

as a spiritual metaphor also. 

When I see this 'coincidence', I just 

feel, this 

couldn't happen without 

Lord's blessings......"

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~~Out of Place~~

~~~~~~~Out of Place~~~~~~~

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*

Words have emerged, and float

where before the silence vibrated

Where was empty 

now is the place

of our meeting,

radius of the real

where my thoughts

touch your thoughts

is this fragment needful for God?

No, my love, it is not,

as are not needed

the grass between the asphalt,

the bark of dogs at the moon,

the fear of the dark,

the foolish laugh of a madman.

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* A poem, originally written in English,

by an Italian Friend, I have translated

the same into Hindi, and posted in my 

"हिन्दी का ब्लॉग" 

with the title :

"बेवज़ह" 

Hi Blank !!

~~~~~~~~Hi Blank  !!~~~~~~~~
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Hi Blank !!
Are you afraid of death ?
You know,
You had been swallowed already,
Alive,
In that Big Void,
One day !
You know that just as,
A magnet attracts the iron pieces,
The Earth attracts the meteorites,
And just as the Black Hole,
The objects, the planets and the suns.
The Big Void attracts your attention.
But with far more stronger force.
And your eyes get glued.
As if mesmerized.
Captured in It's gaze.
It has always been hungry.
It feeds on your attention.
For It is pure "Attention" only.
And one that has been trapped,
In It's charm,
Can never escape.
Such a one is indeed dead to the world,
Yet infinitely Alive,
Death-less and Birth-less.
In the Life-Eternal.
One with the Beloved For Ever.
One with the Peace Infinite.
Bliss Limitless. 
Freedom Infinite.




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Raison d'être.

That Sunday evening,

I behaved in a crazy way,

     Because I was crazy.

I was crazy,

     Because I was angry.

I was angry,

     Because you said ;

You didn't love anybody.

     Because you said ;

You never need any emotional support,

     From anyone in the world !

And I was such a fool !

     So far I had no idea 
I felt, you were telling the truth !

I didn't see, nor know,

      At that crazy moment ;

You were telling a lie.

      Just because you were afraid.

-Of telling the truth ;

      That I was the only exception to this.

Oh yes !

      I was crazy, indeed,

Because I was crazy,

     Because I was angry,

Just because,..................!

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