Self and I

P O E T R Y  

आत्मानं  विद्धि 

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उभौ तौ न विजानीतो

बोधमात्मनो धर्मः।।

उभौ तौ न विजानीतो,

न हन्यते हन्यमाने शरीरे।।

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I am The Self,

I am neither the self,

I am also nor world. 

I am But Knowing,

I am But the Being,

I am not Knowledge, 

Nor I am the Memory, 

I am not the Information,

I am never the story,

I am never the thought,

Nor I am the 'thought of',

I am but the Wisdom, 

I am But the Self.

The self is though thought.

The thought is not the Self, 

I am not thought,

Thought is never, I am. 

How could I kill myself?

Isn't that Irrational?

Isn't that absurd?

It's always someone else,

That might have committed suicide.

One who dies by suicide,

Can no more be contacted,

Could neither be corrected,

For that's not only irrational,

Is quite absurd too.

Does this mean he / she dead?

Is he / she no more? 

How could we know? 

How could be so sure?

"I'm going to kill myself "

Is but a weird thought, 

That can't kill itself,

Though the one, overwhelmed,

Carried over by this thought,

Is neither the thought,

And is nor the Self.

How then one,

Could kill oneself,

Nor the Self,

How could the thought,

Could kill itself.

Because there is no Death,

Death too is but a thought.

That arises and vanishes soon.

Both, The idea and / or the self,

Never Know, but happen only,

Arise and disappear soon, 

Are known but in the Self.

Neither the body, 

Nor the mind,

Can ever Know, 

The Knowing is But the Self. 

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A New Problem.

Past, Present and Future.

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This is about how I should write about these 3 aspects of time, in terms of their respective content.

I can write this point in the following two ways :

1. Should I write --

Memory is the content of Past, Thought is the content of Present and Future is the content of imagination.

Or,

2. Should I write  --

Past is the content of memory, Present is the content of Thought, and the imagination is the content of Future.

Either way, I have no doubt about what-so-ever I want to say.

The same could be again written / explained in the following way --

There is only the Present. The existence and presence of this Present is an evident truth and reality, no one can ever deny, or even ignore.

The Present is so alive a truth that even if  we don't think about it, it doesn't cease to exist. That is, it is an eternal truth though not a tangible one, as a material object.

In comparison to Present, Past and memory are synonymous with one-another.

In the same way, in comparison to Present, Future and the imagination are synonymous with one-another.

Though Time exists ever as a presence alive, no one can ever transcend this Present.

In comparison again, no one can ever enter Future or Past in the true sense.

We enter the Past if and only if supported by memory.

We enter the Future if and only if supported by imagination.

So, the question is :

Could we ever understand, comprehend or  grasp in whatever possible way, -in its true sense, the thing that we call Present?

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