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P O E T R Y

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Trying to share this from my WordPress blog. 

What "Is".

P O E T R Y. 

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Neither Truth,

Nor Awareness Of The Truth,

Has Any Pre-set Format.

You Can't Approach, 

The Truth, Or The Awareness, 

By Whatever Or, 

Whatsoever Means, 

You Can't Plan Beforehand.

The Mind That Seeks Success,

Can Never See, nor Understand,

How The Mind-set Itself, 

Is The Result Of Multiple Influences, 

And The Conditioning.

Such A Mind-set Keeps Trying,

Incessantly To Change Itself,

Or The Situation At Many Levels,

But To No Way Avail, Whatever,

Is Found, In This Framework.

Neither In The External, 

Nor In The Internal.

Awareness Is Not,

A Result To Be Achieved,

Acquired Or Attained. 

Only When There Is Awareness, 

There Is Understanding.

There Is Contentedness,

Peace And Harmony.

The Urge And Earnestness,

Comes Through Awareness.

And Awareness Itself Is, 

The Urge And Earnestness.

Is Here And Now,

At All Times,  Everywhere.

It Is Never, No-where There,

Elsewhere,

In Imagination, Concept,

Idea, Ideation, Thought,

Or Thinking Which Is But, 

Only A Movement Of,

The Dead Assumed Past, 

And the Hypothetical,

The Imagined Future.

And No-where,

In This Now, 

The Alive Present.

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When the past reckons!

पञ्चदशी अध्याय १३

ब्रह्मानन्दे अद्वैतानंदप्रकरणम् 

श्लोक ८३

The above was shared by drvarsha79.wordpress.com .

I had studied this text some 5 years ago :

A page from my hand-written notes.

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Three Pious Egoists.

A Parable Parabolic

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In my room at the Ashram, there were the three. An earthen jar (kamandal / कमंडल), an earthen lamp (मिट्टी का दिया / दीपक) and also an electric lamp (बिजली का बल्ब).

They would always keep silent and served others in their own way. Living for long in such a religious and spiritual place, all the time they always just kept / observed silence, while listening to and imbibing silently only all the talks, debates and the discussions that happened there. Then gradually they knew somehow about the meaning, purpose and the sense of 'just being and knowing'. In a single word, we could say -- they attained a level of perception  / consciousness and could now express and reciprocate the same through their talks and the unspoken words.

(First of all, this was revealed to me by none other than the अश्वत्थ / Ashwatth, who always talked to me in the Same way.

(For details, you can see my posts :

Silent Dialogues. )

One mid-night, while I was just sitting on my कुशासन / cushion seat, I was a bit scared and wondered what was all that going on there,  all about!

Maybe I was kind of in a trans or whatever, I could listen to them and grasp very clearly the sense and meaning of what they were talking about.

The earthen jar said :

Just like all creatures I am too is made of the  earth, water, air, fire and space only. I am no more or less greater or smaller than all those other creatures who, in ignorance claim that they are conscious and sentient beings and are far more superior to others such like the insentient ones like us. They call us प्रकृति / nature, and hope in their stupid audacious ignorance that they could someday conquer not only us, but the entire, the whole  प्रकृति / nature as well. They are even unaware what they are talking about, If they are apart or not from the  प्रकृति / nature. I can say this much only and know nothing more.

Then the earthen lamp said :

"We are all created by a Supreme Power that is the cause - the potential and instrumental also in His this Act of the Creation. Really, No one knows Him but He alone knows all and everyone, everything. I have understood this much only. Like the earthen jar, I too do not know any more! I too have finally, ultimately concluded thus, submitted to Him and all my personal desires and fears are no more. I am happy in this simple understanding, keep on distributing and giving out this light of my understanding to all whoever come to me".

The electric bulb was switched off and I was curious to listen to what he might have liked to say! So I switched it on :

Lo and behold !

He first thanked me and than narrated his own point of view :

"Oh my dear friends! With all due regards, love and respects I would say thanks to you all who are so humble, honest and yet keep a low profile! Still I feel the assumed feigned humility is really another form of ego only. I'm not criticizing any of you, yet I do feel I am just unable to see how one could cast off this ego! You see, The sense of being itself is the ego. The knowing of being too is again the manifestation of ego only. So how the ego could possibly decimate itself?"

I was truly impressed by all these silent Gods who were indeed Divine in their own nature. I bowed before them in silence, for I had no words to express my gratitude / sentiments.

After having lost deep for a minute or two, I come to my own and lazily stretched out my hand to find and get the :

Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary.

I scrolled through pages without a clear idea about what exactly I was trying to find out.

Then I thought a little attentively and then searched for the word :

"Pious".

The result was like this :

 

Shock-Prone,

Or Shock-protected! 

P O E T R Y

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(Incomplete -- needs to be further edited). 

From My Very Childhood-Memory,

I Have Always Been Shock-Prone.

Always So Vulnerable,

And Hardly Shock-protected! 

I Often Wonder, 

If This Happens To All And Everyone!

Or, Maybe This Happened To Me Only!

The Numerous Incidences,

Did I Really Invited Them, 

Because Of My Foolishness,

Or There Were People Around, 

Who Took Disadvantage Of,

My Simplicity, Naivity!

Or Knaivity?

I Think,  I Have just Now Coined, 

A New Word, 

And May be, You Can't Find It, 

In A Dictionary!

Whatever Be The Case,

I Couldn't Resolve, 

This Conflict / Problem,

Till Date.

Neither I hope,

I Could Get It Resolved,

Till Death!

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असंसक्ति / पदार्थाभाविनी...

The Al-Zheimer continued...

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By the way, while writing the earlier post, a poetry, A revelation resurfaced in the mind. 

During Feb. Mar. Apr. '91, when I was living there at an Ashram near a river-bank of the Narmada. One evening, the sun was not yet set, returning from the upper level, I stood for a minute in the door which was still to be fixed. And everything disappeared in a flash, I was though well aware that I was  there. I was a mere presence only, - with no name or  form. The next day when I referred to this incidence to the महन्त / महात्मा / Mahanta of that Asrama. He at once exclaimed :

"This is छठी स्थिति / असंसक्ति / पदार्थाभाविनी / the  padarthAthbhAvini, -the sixth stage"

According to another point of view, it is said the 4th stage : asamsakti / असंसक्ति  (refer to  --कैवल्य नवनीत /  Kaivalya Navanita.

This incidence helped me in understanding and relating these occult revelations.

This account is just for my record. However, nothing is hereby claimed or justified.

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It's True!

P O E T R Y

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I N D E E D! 

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Al-Zeimer Could Be Detected,

In Advance, The Moment It Sets In. 

He Was A Hindi-Poet.

Met Him During 79-80,

I Knew Him, But, 

Because Of, Read His Poem, 

"साक्षात्कार"

Don't Remember the Words, 

Can't Forget The Sense,

And The Essence.

Because I Too Had Crossed, 

The Threshold,

Where The Memory, 

And The Recognition,

Synonyms Of One-Another,

Go Into Oblivion,

Suddenly,  Or Gradually,

Yet The Being And The Knowing,

Stay Unaffected.

The Moment Knocks At The Door,

When The Names And The Forms,

Melt Down, Coalesce,

Into One Another, 

And You Are Aware,

And The Mind Is Just Unable, 

To Connect Two Thoughts, 

To Relate One With The Next, 

That Just Arises And Emerges, 

While The Last Has Faded Away.

That's Precisely The Moment,

When The Whole World Is Lost, 

And The Existence Is Revealed, 

In Its Vibrant Colors And Shades, 

Rhythm, Rhymes And Chimes. 

Everything Synchronized Perfectly,

Yet You Are The Same, 

When The Two Consecutive Thoughts,

Have Deserted, Gone For Good, 

And No New Next Has Arrived! 

In That Vacuous Silence, 

You Are Alive For The First Time!

You Are Utterly Unconcerned,

Who You Are And What Is The World. 

You Are Stunned, Stoned, - Immobile!

Yet The Body-Functions Keep Working,

In a Perfect Orderly Way. 

Maybe, You Look As If In Trans,

Truly Like A Paramahans!

You Are, What You Are!

Indeed, It's True!

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Much ado about Nothing.

"नहि नहि रक्षति डु कृञ् करणे"

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Learning Languages Is Fun! 

I had this panchent for etymology since long. Going through :

आसन्ने सम्प्राप्ते मरणे नहि नहि रक्षति डु कृञ् करणे ||

भज गोविन्दम् भज गोविन्दम् भज गोविन्दम् मूढमते ||

"भज गोविन्दम् / bhaja givindam"

I tried to decipher this aphorism in the संस्कृत व्याकरण / Sanskrit grammar, and found this  सूत्र / aphorism in the "पाणिनी / Panini" अष्टाध्यायी 3/3/88.

I felt the English word "do" might be but the cognate of this संस्कृत / Sanskrit  कृ / kri verb-root.

तत्रापश्यत्स्थितान् पार्थः पितॄनथ पिता महान् ||

आचार्यान् मातुलान्भ्रातॄन्पुत्रान्पौत्रान्सखींस्तथा||२६।||

There is yet another  letter  दीर्घ 'ऋ'  as is used in the above verse from Gita, I am unable to print here that forms the verb root  '~कृ' - कीर्यते and give us words such as : किरण, विकिरण, कीर्ति ...

Then I searched for the similar words like ado, adapt, adopt and finally adept. I think, I could conveniently relate all these words to their संस्कृत / Sanskrit origin as follows :

Ado : as in "much ado about nothing".

अव धू and अ वधू as in  अवधूत (निष्णात निःस्नात नि स्नात)

Do : As in "How do you do?",

Adapt : To adjust (अधि युञ्जित) to the situation and circumstances,

Adept : expert (अधि आप्त),

Adopt : could be derived in two ways --

अधि आप्त, आदि आप्त Apt, आप्त - opt option,

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Status Quo.

 P O E T R Y

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Two Poles Apart,

Near And Distant,

Within One Another, 

Who Is The Known, 

Who Is The Knower,

What Is The Knowing, 

Who Knows Who?

Who Knows What? 

The Grit And The Resilience,

Resistance and Endurance, 

Go Hand In Hand, 

Who Will Be Survived,

Survived By Who?

Who Will Be Here,

Who Will Be No more?

Every Morning,

Getting Up From Bed, 

Every Night, 

Going Again To Bed,

The World Asks Me, 

I Ask To The World,

Status Quo Prevails, 

How Long, Who Knows! 

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Attitude (रवैया)

The Attitude and The Aptitude.

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Jetpack asked me:

Describe one positive change you have made in your life?

My answer was : The Attitude.

It is only The attitude that determines how one faces the so many various and different situations one has to go through moment to moment in life. Attitude could not be some fixed hard and fast rule to remember and follow when one has to deal with people and the situations. Yet one has to give a proper response without a prior preparation. If you are going to take an examination, there you have already the set subject, the course, the proper arrangement of questions to answer, alotted time to write the answer. Situations in life seldom follow this way. You may not have the prior information about how to deal with the new situation in the given new circumstances in the next moment. If you're young, maybe there are parents or the elders to take care of you, but if you are about 15 or above 15 years of age, say a teenager, then you may not be acquainted well with the people around you. There are always all kinds people at various places. At the home, on the street, in the market, in the school or college. And at the common places.  So it is important to know and learn, to be prudent  in advance, what prompts the response in these situations at different times and places. What response would be enough, sufficient  and appropriate to meet those challenges of life that one comes across every moment.

The answer in a single word word will be : The Attitude. Unfortunately, this single word doesn't tell much about what exactly is the sense and the meaning of Attitude that could be applied at the practical level.

The Gita Chapter 17 gives a hint to this :

त्रिविधा भवति श्रद्धा देहिनां सा स्वभावजा।।

सात्त्विकी राजसी चैव तामसी चेति तां श्रुणु।।२।।

सत्त्वानुरूपा सर्वस्य श्रद्धा भवति भारत।।

श्रद्धामयोऽयं पुरुषः यो यच्छ्रद्धः स एव सः।।३।।

(श्रीमद्भगवद्गीता अध्याय १७)

सत्त्व means the mind. According to the mind, every one is endowed with certain attributes that prompt him to behave in a certain way. And accordingly is the response that is given by one in the different conditions, situations and circumstances. 

That is  स्वभावजा  meaning by the very nature itself.

So this is spontaneous Attitude. The mental construct. While by and by the other factors help him in learning the manners, the ethics and the social norms, so as to fit well in the society. This is his social conditioning. This too again depends upon and keeps changing from person to person, place to place.

Therefore it is the Attitude what one should understand, learn about, and if required, try to change or improve the same.

Aptitude :

On the other hand, is about the interests and the inclinations and could be cultivated and developed too to a certain extent, whereas the Attitude determines the Aptitude and if it suits or not well with the Attitude.

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The Toast-makers'

CHALLENGE 

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Of Toast, soup and dosa.

When for the first time I read the word 'सूप' in the Valmiki Ramayana, I at once knew, the English word soup  and the German : Suppe are but cognates of this  सूप ! Even the word Supper may be somehow related. Years ago, I heard a word "तोस" and even now, I often  come across this word, whenever see a child asking for the same. He means a toast / the rusk.

The Sanskrit word  तोष and  संतोष,  is used to indicate "satisfaction".

In the Tamizh, in the Kannad, the Telugu and the Malayalam too, as in these languages, the word "dosa" means a south Indian pancake and is used in the same sense. Maybe we can see that the word Toast, dosa are cognates of this Sanskrit word : तोष. 

I have no purpose of proving anything I just find this approach rather interesting.

Just for fun!

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Belief, Faith and Trust

P O E T R Y 

23-04-2023

I Have Often Wandered, 

What I Have In Me, There,

Where I Know Me Not,

Still I Do Think Always, Ever, 

Something Or Someone Stupendous,

A Presence Is There Who Knows Me, 

Far Better Than, How I Know Myself.

But Who Decides I Shall Think of Him?

I Can Only Think Of Him,

I Can Only Thank Too Him, 

And Still I Do Believe,

There Is Someone, A Presence,

Taking Care Of, Looking After Me, 

From The Corner Of  His Eyes,

Looking Over My Shoulder,

And That Is But My Belief.

And Still I Have Faith In Him,

That He is Faithful To Me! 

May Be This May Amount To Sacrilege,

But Still I Am Convinced,

Or Rather This Is My Firm Conviction, 

I Have Never Wandered Away From That!

And That is Indeed The Trust, 

Now I Can Say And See!

Though I never Saw Him, 

Still I Am Amazed,

How I Could Be So Damn Certain!! 

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