More than one person has asked me why I was running away from life?! Having never thought I was or even wanted to, do I now wish I could? But is it really possible to run away from life? What would it even mean to run away from life? Mine or someone else's? Is it running away from people around me? Family, relatives, friends,... er, society? What for? What would I seek then? If getting physically away was the solution, would I even have stayed here? Finally, am I in denial?
(I'm reminded of a game from "Whose line is it anyway?" that had participants communicate only in questions. I reckoned at the end of this entry that it turned out so! :)
Maya, again
(I say again, because I wrote a prayer to Her once)
The mirage in the distance
Reappears at many turns
Still, disbelief from before
Won't aid till I feel the lore
Every moment left to earn
Is waiting for me to burn
So, whatever is now sought
Is only as good as a thought
The mirage in the distance
Reappears at many turns
Still, disbelief from before
Won't aid till I feel the lore
Every moment left to earn
Is waiting for me to burn
So, whatever is now sought
Is only as good as a thought
Thoughts 11-13
11. Pleasure is pain, only gift-wrapped.
12. The fire that warms up also burns.
13. The rules have exceptions because exceptions are the rules.
12. The fire that warms up also burns.
13. The rules have exceptions because exceptions are the rules.
Where they meet
There are so many incidents in life that are seen as disparate happenings but after a period of time, suddenly one day, make much sense... they all fall into one single perspective; it feels then that parallel lines do meet into that seeming infinity! Here's one such experience I gathered last week...
I started going to Puttaparthi for Sai darshan around 1997 while I was still at Bombay. After shifting to Bangalore, during the past few years I started feeling my bhakti towards Hanuman and I started my prayers in whatever small capacity it was possible for me. Around the same time, I chanced upon Sridhara Swami books and his guru Ramdas Swami's too. I was also getting my inclinations towards Mount Kailash stronger by the day. On my path, I also picked up Bhagavan Ramana's blessings. There were quite a few other followings I have made, but these are the ones that gel together in some form although truly different paths. How so, one may wonder, apart from the advaitic feeling!
That Satya Sai is a Shiva avatar is quite well-known. Hanuman, being rudra-rupa, is Shiva too. Sridhara Swami is an incarnation of Hanuman and so is Ramdas Swami. Mount Kailash is Shiva's abode, while Ramana Maharshi is Arunachala Shiva, personified. Well, thats that.
shivam shaantam advaitam
I started going to Puttaparthi for Sai darshan around 1997 while I was still at Bombay. After shifting to Bangalore, during the past few years I started feeling my bhakti towards Hanuman and I started my prayers in whatever small capacity it was possible for me. Around the same time, I chanced upon Sridhara Swami books and his guru Ramdas Swami's too. I was also getting my inclinations towards Mount Kailash stronger by the day. On my path, I also picked up Bhagavan Ramana's blessings. There were quite a few other followings I have made, but these are the ones that gel together in some form although truly different paths. How so, one may wonder, apart from the advaitic feeling!
That Satya Sai is a Shiva avatar is quite well-known. Hanuman, being rudra-rupa, is Shiva too. Sridhara Swami is an incarnation of Hanuman and so is Ramdas Swami. Mount Kailash is Shiva's abode, while Ramana Maharshi is Arunachala Shiva, personified. Well, thats that.
shivam shaantam advaitam
Beyond
Beyond the senses
Away from reach
Lies that core
And even more
Beyond unthought depths
Away from mind's peek
Lies the peace
That I seek
Beyond the yore
Away from morrow
Lies eternal bliss
Amidst joy and sorrow
Beyond the noise
Away from verbose gauge
Lies supreme silence
The only page
Beyond a separate you
Away from ego's me
Lies it all
Thusly we can't see!
Away from reach
Lies that core
And even more
Beyond unthought depths
Away from mind's peek
Lies the peace
That I seek
Beyond the yore
Away from morrow
Lies eternal bliss
Amidst joy and sorrow
Beyond the noise
Away from verbose gauge
Lies supreme silence
The only page
Beyond a separate you
Away from ego's me
Lies it all
Thusly we can't see!
Vestige
The self-illumed Self
Akin to a countless odd suns!
Shows light to the world
And shadows form at once
The world seen in this light
Is not That to find
Nor is It the shadow
Due to the clouded mind
The appearance of others
Counted within or without
Is by a false ego, seen
Separate from the Scout
The feeling of the void
May scare, soothe or skew
But it is not the end
Just One's point of view
Yet the senses play a fool
And until they so do
This world will remain
As its for me... and for you
Akin to a countless odd suns!
Shows light to the world
And shadows form at once
The world seen in this light
Is not That to find
Nor is It the shadow
Due to the clouded mind
The appearance of others
Counted within or without
Is by a false ego, seen
Separate from the Scout
The feeling of the void
May scare, soothe or skew
But it is not the end
Just One's point of view
Yet the senses play a fool
And until they so do
This world will remain
As its for me... and for you
Paritrana
Today, a meaningful forward came into the mail with the link of Paritrana and some related news. I, for one, am excited about the idea. That they are factually trying to put principles into practice means a lot to me. That Indianness, out in the open to act, unlike most of us who talk about it, should be encouraged. In what way is for each of us to decide.
Some might say its too much of a theory, but I think its still worth the effort. Trying to hit perfection is a quality of most, but not wanting to do anything if one can't be perfect is also true with most! I hope that we all improve our ideologies towards the benefit of the nation, atleast from this republic day of ours.
So here's wishing Indians a happy republic day in advance.
vande maataram
Some might say its too much of a theory, but I think its still worth the effort. Trying to hit perfection is a quality of most, but not wanting to do anything if one can't be perfect is also true with most! I hope that we all improve our ideologies towards the benefit of the nation, atleast from this republic day of ours.
So here's wishing Indians a happy republic day in advance.
vande maataram
What if...
(This is an experience from more than six months back... I'm trying to gather what happened)
I was on the edge
The cliff that ended there
A step more from then
Unto God knows where
It was a tunnel
Deep, dark and endless
Still leading into light
My only hope out of the mess
What if I'd taken that?
The path having no binding
The one that turns no more
Would I then be hiding?
This very thought
Held me from going ahead
Since then I've drifted more
Into the laziness of the dead
Was I scared?
I know not for sure
What I do know is I stumbled
And returned back to the lure!
It was a clue
Of the Truth forthwith
Yes, the only way to live
Wasn't just another myth
I was on the edge
The cliff that ended there
A step more from then
Unto God knows where
It was a tunnel
Deep, dark and endless
Still leading into light
My only hope out of the mess
What if I'd taken that?
The path having no binding
The one that turns no more
Would I then be hiding?
This very thought
Held me from going ahead
Since then I've drifted more
Into the laziness of the dead
Was I scared?
I know not for sure
What I do know is I stumbled
And returned back to the lure!
It was a clue
Of the Truth forthwith
Yes, the only way to live
Wasn't just another myth
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