While you were away,

Poetry : 28-10-2021

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The Continuum.

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While you were away, 

I looked for you, 

Searched out you,

Here and there, everywhere.

But couldn't find you, 

Anywhere except, 

In my dreams and memory,

In my imagination,

Far and within, 

Strewn upon me, 

Like the dry winter leafs,

Giving neither warmth, nor solace,

But then I realized, 

How far I had been,

Drifted away from myself,

Wandered and lost away, 

In my anxiety, agony,

Created by myself.

Just don't know,

How and if, 

Could I possibly,

Find you again,

In this time-frame,

Which seems not, going to end. 

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Religion, Faith and Trust.

A Dharma,

Many Religions,

And a Faith.

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It's right time to ask a question about what is the relation between the Dharma, Religion and Faith.

Could the three point out the same thing? 

Are the 3 different from one-another?

Or, similar in a few aspects but yet different in some other aspects?

So long as we don't distinguish, compare and  contrast between the many aspects of each of them, we could never resolve the differences and the clashes consequent to them. 

It really needs a great urge, earnestness, insight and a serious resolve to find out and realize how the three are intricately related, intertwined and have become such a complicated issue that is turning the whole humanity crazy at so many levels.

'Dharma' the word, couldn't be satisfactorily and justifiably translated into English in such a word that may reflect the whole and core spirit of the Sanskrit word, 'Dharma'. 

'Dharma' is not a concept only, but is a principle. It has a deep, meaning and significance when it is applied to, with reference to  the behaviour.

Therefore this 'Dharma' could be classified again into 3 kinds of the existence, namely :

The Matter / Material,

The Mind / Mental, and 

The Spirit / Spiritual. 

'Religion', in comparison, is about the behaviour, the ritual, the custom, the tradition, the culture of a social group, -a cult of people. 

Of 'people', - we again find many meanings :

This may denote the 'color', the 'caste', the 'race', or even the 'blood'. Presently, we have another way of looking at it in terms of 'D. N. A.'

'Faith', very different from:

The 'Dharma', and

The 'Religion',

is essentially a concept fortified by tradition or custom, and is forced upon the people.

Then this is called belief.

Expressed in a language, it comprises of words only, and has no substance any. 

Neither in the objective sense nor in the subjective sense. 

In contrast, there is a word 'Conviction', that is kind of inviolable inborn assertion and never an assumption such as a concept or a faith.

The word 'Faith' however could be traced from the similar word 'fidelity' which implies kind of natural commitment. This could again be seen in the word 'fide' / 'vide'. Going a bit further, we could arrive at the Sanskrit word-root 'विद्' / vid, which is a very strong verb-root in Sanskrit, and a slight of grammar gives various meanings to it. This verb-root could mean :

To gain (from Sanskrit 'ग्रहण'),

To know (see, vision, witness),

To find (विन्दति, विन्दते) and, 

To have (Sanskrit : ह अव)

A very similar connotation is the Sanskrit word :

'विश्वास',

Which is a compound word, made of :

The verb-roots 'विश्' (to enter) and 'वस्' (to dwell into). Implying what is there that has entered into, and is residing in the heart, or our the very being itself.

Finally,  the Sanskrit root-verb :

'तुष्' gives us the words 

स-तुष-प्रायः, स-तुष, संतोष, संतुष्टि, 

Which may have the English cognates such as :

'satisfy', 'trust', and 'truth'

Respectively.

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A Vast Magnetic Tunnel.

The SciTechDaily. 

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The latest scientific discoveries often justify and reaffirm my interpretation of the truths that I often relate to the ancient Vedika texts.

The Atharva SheerShaM is one such text that is rendition of beautiful mantras from the  Rigveda and other 3 Veda as well. 

As the Veda is described as the truth eternal, and not written by a human, but at the same time is revealed to sages again and again in different times. 

There isn't and couldn't be a chronology to Veda and we can't think or say which one is the farmer and which one is the later.

As Gita also points out, there are only 3 Veda, namely Rigveda, SAmaveda and Yajurveda. 

It often creates a doubt, if the Atharva Veda is a text compiled by choosing the relevant mantras from these 3 main Veda, later on.

Going through the 5 AtharvaSheerSha, one can find out how AtharvaSheerSha relates the other 3 Veda and has a purpose to help man in quite a different manner.

I'm reminded frequently of this fact while performing a routine "pATha" every-day.

"Is our Solar system surrounded by a vast magnetic belt / ring?"

That is what now the latest science is trying to find out.

"And if yes, what is possibly the purpose?"

I can see and relate to also the same truth in Shiva-Atharva SheerShaM, para 6 :

योऽग्नौ रुद्रो योऽप्स्वन्तर्य ओषधीर्वीरुध आविवेश ।

य इमा विश्वा भुवनानि चक्लृपे तस्मै रुद्राय नमोऽस्त्वग्नये ।

यो रुद्रोऽग्नौ यो रुद्रोऽप्स्वन्तर्यो रुद्र ओषधीर्वीरुध आविवेश । 

यो रुद्र इमा विश्वा भुवनानि चक्लृपे तस्मै रुद्राय वै नमो नमः । 

यो रुद्रोऽप्सु यो रुद्र ओषधीषु यो रुद्रो वनस्पतिषु  ।

येन रुद्रेण जगदूर्ध्वं धारितं पृथिवी द्विधा त्रिधा धर्ता धारिता नागा ये अन्तरिक्षे तस्मै रुद्राय वै नमो नमः।।

To understand better let us refer to para 2 of the same text where devatA extoll Rudra and say :

यो वै रुद्रः स भगवान् यश्च सोमस्तस्मै वै नमो नमः।।।८।।

Here we need to understand how in the Gita, chapter 15, Lord Sri-Krishna has pointed out in the stanza 13 and 14, in the first person :

गामाविश्य च भूतानि धारयाम्यहमोजसा ।

पुष्णामि चौषधीः सर्वाः सोमो भूत्वा रसात्मकः ।।१३।।

अहं वैश्वानरो भूत्वा प्राणिनां देहमाश्रितः ।

प्राणापानसमायुक्तः पचाम्यन्न चतुर्विधम् ।।१४।।

Once we should also cross-check how He, or the Lord Sri-Krishna has described Himself in the chapter 10 :

वेदानां सामवेदोऽस्मि देवानामस्मि वासवः ।

इन्द्रियणां मनश्चास्मि भूतानामस्मि चेतना ।।२२।।

And, in the chapter 13 :

इच्छा द्वेषः सुखं दुःखं सङ्घातश्चेतना धृतिः।

एतत्क्षेत्रं समासेन सविकामुदाहृतम् ।।६।।

This indicates that Rudra as Lord Supreme is a चैतन्य or a Conscious Principle.

Of course, the latest discoveries in Science may look a bit difficult to grasp, but as soon as we find out the same narrated, pointed- out and referred to in our Vedika texts, in a far more better way, we are winder-struck at the wisdom of the sages and the Rishis of the ancient times. 

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While you're alive.

Poetry 08-10-2021.

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Question Existential.

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While you're alive,

And have difficulties, 

And obstacles and hurdles, 

In living the life,

Do ask, :

What's the problem?

But when death arrives, 

When death reaches at you,

When death comes uninvited,

Don't ask :

What's the problem?

Ask instead :

Exactly "Who" has the problem!

But you could do so,

In the moment,

If you'd asked this question,

Unto yourself,

Many a times, 

While you were alive! 

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The Sage.

The Reality and The man.

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(continued from the last post)

Thus a few of those remembered that essential Reality of man, where-from arrived this sense of individuality as a 'person', limited to this body and its form, feelings, experiences, conditioning, memory, etc.

Sages however saw, how even after descending from that essential nature / truth of the Self, that is in fact an indivisible whole, one is never other than that.

"Seyen und Sagen" sagt Der Sage.

When he told others about this Reality, some could understand, follow and discover the same in their own being, while most just ignored him or didn't even give a glance or attention over his words.

Some thought :

The Sage might be speaking about some God, Who is the Creator, Who sustains and preserves His Creation and finally annihilates / withdraws the same unto Himself.

So this God too seems a late-comer to 'I'.

Then the notion :

"God is All"

came into existence.

The man misunderstood this word 'All' to be His very name itself! Others a few clinched the hint and could see what the name pointed out to!

Man in this way has been running from the pillar to the post desparetely anxious and restless.

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The Self-Referential

The Phonetic, The Figurative, and the Descriptive.

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The human language developed so far through millennia might have been the result of man's attempts at describing his feelings, verbally and through gestures in the beginning.

Naturally, first through gestures, men might have tried to convey their most simple feelings like fear and affection but then hatred, threatening, anger, envy and jealousy also. 

Then they might have discovered how to show through imitative words many a objects sentient or insentient. This way the human could express so many of their ideas.

We can't say when man successfully knew that in order to identify a certain object or a person, name could be assiciated to the form of that person or object,  -sentient or insentient.

However once he found out that a certain phoneme could be associated with a certain object and then an aggregate of these various phonemes could be compounded in a sequence so as to enable him distinguishing those objects he must had great joy and exhilaration.

Many might have done this at many places and at different times and they might have invented the first spoken language of their tribe.

They might have tried assigning names to things and people as well. Then they might have felt that there should be different words to denote one-another in mutual conversation. 

However, they might have felt bewildered and embarrassed when they had to point out oneself by the same name that others used for calling one.

We can see that in comparison to 'He' and 'You', the self-referential pronoun 'I' must have been a late-comer for them.

Finally they might have arrived at and agreed at that the expression / pronoun 'I' could be used by each and everyone of them conveniently, while pointing out oneself, and irrespective of their name. 

That must have been how the illusion of taking oneself a person might have entered the mind / consciousness of man.

It is not that before acquiring this indicator, one didn't exist and was not aware of the existence of oneself, but only after naming oneself as 'I', one had a sense of oneself and took himself as this very person, he calls by 'I'.

Looks a bit awkward, but that is how this 'I' then transformed into 'We', and the consciousness of the individual into the collective.

From the collective then grew up the cults and the culture.

In the process man utterly forgot what is this  'self' or the 'essential self', if any, that he Is. 

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