Be connected.^

Each one has an itch to open up

To someone or other, which can be

Intimate, casual or informal,

Suiting to their emotional levels.

That someone can be anybody,

A lover, a friend, or a colleague.

To have someone to relate to

And to be trusted is a basic urge.

Parental love and sexual love

Are flowing free and unconditional.

Other kinds of love are conditional.

One must have all the three kinds of love.

The one in whose presence you are happy

And in whose absence you feel for him

Is the one you are in love with and to him

You must be like him to feel connected.

31.05.2016

Wealth, power and position

Don’t value a man for his wealth,

For his power or for his robes.

It will tempt him to get these more.

Do value a man for his skills,

For his virtue or for his heart.

It will prod him to become more.

02.06.2016

Beings sensual is sacred.

Desire sensual is not bad.

Desire acquisitive is bad.

Desire for romance is not bad.

Desire filled with greed is bad.

Desire is the seed of creation.

Desire is the drive of existence.

Without desire man is a robot.

Without desire the life has no life.

Andal and Mirabai fell in love for Krishna.

Rabia and St. Terasa fell in Love for their gods.

They wrote verses filled with ecstasy

And charged with erotic emotion.

Andal in deep love for Krishna begs Him,

“My surging breasts in their ecstasy

Melt and distress my soul. What do

You gain by hiding yourself?

Mirabai: Come to my pavilion, O my king(Krishna),

I have spread a bed made of

Delicately selected buds and blossoms

And have arrayed myself in bridal garb

Rabia al Basri pours her love for Him,

“And my beloved is with me always,

For His love I find no substitute

And His love is the test for me among mortal beings.”

St Teresa of Avila pours, “If a kiss

Implies peace and friendship, why do not souls Beg of You to ratify it with them?

Grant me this peace with a kiss of Your mouth.”

In cosmology of Tantra,,

Sexuality is explicit

With Lingham and Yoni

As Devine Sex to be worshiped.

The sensual is as much sacred

As any devotion to gods is.

In physical outpouring

Of energy, total surrender takes place.

31.05.2016

Andal of 10^th century from South India and Mirabai of 16^th century from North India offered themselves as beloved to Krishan, The Vishnu entity

 Rabia al Basri from Basra, Iraq in the !8^th century, a female seer.

St Teresa of Avila is Spanish, 16^th century

Lingham = Phallus; Yoni = Vagina.. 

AUM is universal.

The Universe is made up of

Various fields of energy.

Any change in the energy fields

Affects energy equilibrium.

AUM is the sound indentified

With the Universal energy,

Which is in constant fluctuation

With ether present throughout the space.

AUM is a tool for Hindus’ worships.

AUM consists of three long vibrations.

 A in belly, U through throat

And M through nasal, it’s pronounced.

AUM stands for past, present and future.

AUM defines body, mind and thought.

AUM is waking, dreaming and sleeping.

AUM connects Prana to Cosmo.

Chanting AUM activates

Stomach, spinal cord, heart,

Nasal and brain regions.

AUM stands beyond religions.

31.05.20116

Death is an enigma.

Death is an enigma, a mystery.

Death is not an event which one does not live

To experience and yet death looms high.

Death looks mysterious as it limits life.

Death tells us about impermanence of life.

Death in others warns us to be prepared.

Death proves about uncertainty of life.

Death mystifies us with no after-death clues.

A living person is an aggregate

Of gross body with flesh, thoughts and feelings

And subtle body with intuition and energy.

Death separates gross body and subtle body.

Death is not one time event but gradual.

Final death is the last axe that fells the tree.

The relation between the gross and the subtle

Is akin to that between water and heat.

31.05.2016

24th Tirtankara’s theory

Mahavir, Twenty fourth Tirtankara,

Postulated a theory, Anekent,

Meaning ‘treat all views with equanimity’,

To stand high from other dogmatic doctrines.

31.05.2016

Extra power shown is magic.

Spirituality is associated

With acquiring some extra power

To predict future and cures disease,

And to be a beckon to the people.

The Hindu traditions recognize this.

Mythologies, Histories and epics

Have projected many human characters

With supernatural power to stand high.

Saints and seers the people had become,

With dedication and propitiation

To the personal gods, spread over time,

And acquired power; thus goes the story.

Spirituality is no way connected

To attaining supernatural power.

Detachment, meditation and virtue

Are the path to tread towards spirituality.

31.05.016

Be ruler non-communal.

Street Aurangzib was renamed

After A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.

Aurangzib had been wicked

And known for cruelty and bigotry.

Abdul Kalam had been pious

And known for virtue and humility.

Communal harmony was not hit.

Street Akbar later was renamed

After Maharana Pratap .

Akbar had been secular

And known for impartial rule.

Maharana Pratap was a patriot

And known for mass leadership.

Communal harmony was hit.

31.05.2016

(with reference to Streets in Delhi, India)

God need not worry.

I shall be thankful to God on all days

For, if I did not get a lot today,

At least I got a little of the lot,

If I did not get a little today,

At least I did not incur any loss,

If I incurred some kind of loss today,

At least, I did not fall sick or slipped down

And if I fell sick or slipped down today

At least I managed to come back home soon.

I’m told to be so; God need not worry.

31.05.2016

Is a single woman more honest?

The single woman in the public life

Is held high as compared to married women.

Being a queen and not a king’s consort,

The single woman is free of man’s hold.

A woman without a family

Will not be corrupt or selfish at work.

However, there is zero evidence

Linking the family ties with corruption.

A woman without a family

Gives her whole time and attention to works.

However, there is zero evidence

Linking the family ties with negligence.

Man brings home earnings that woman receives.

Woman inherits hoarding tendencies.

It makes no difference if a woman

Is single or married for a honest rule.

30.05.2016

A fortune teller

 He made himself a fortune teller

And sat under a tree with a name-board.

He predicted to ten persons that day.

By fluke, it came true to two of them.

The two were the cause for new entrants,

A few of whom found it right and canvassed.

His fortune telling, with reliance of fluke,

Was going many years, earning fortune and name.

One can fool different people all the time.

30.05.2016

Passion is energy.

Passion is the strong craving for something;

It can be sexual or for other pursuits.

Passion in Latin means ‘to suffer’. Yes,

Rightly so. Longing for is passion.

Antony had passion for Cleopatra;

John Keats had passion for sensuality.

Alexander had passion for conquests.

You and I have passion for many things.

Passion gives an extra sheen to one’s life.

Passion gives extra energy and drives.

Passion gives purpose and meaning to life.

Passion, denied, produces acute pain.

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To know passion, one must experience it.

Sexual passion is the easiest to get.

Passion can develop on anything

On which accrue desire and happiness.

Enjoying so­­­mething is not true passion.

Being crazy for something is passion.

Obsession is the ugly face of passion.

Romances outlive heroic actions.

30.05.2016

Modern Leaders are corrupt.

Power is sought on two counts:

From fear of punishment;

To act as a deterrent;

Power is got from two ways.

By act of favours to people;

By act of amassing wealth;

Can a leader be uncorrupt?

30.05.016

The role of resistance

An organized opposition stalls

The tendencies of the dictatorship,

And also speedy implementation.

An organized labour union stalls

The attempt of labour exploitation,

And also effective labour output.

29.05.2016

Anger modified

There must be anger against injustice.

Anger must not translate to violence.

Violence begets only violence.

Retribution is not an apt answer.

Anger must translate into a protest

To act as a deterrent to onslaughts.

29.05.2016

Is a burden a burden? ^

Spiritual exercises are a burden.

Ritual ceremonies are a burden.

Critical analyses are a burden.

We bear these as women bear their beauty.

29.05.2016 

To win and lose.

You cannot win unless you try for it.

You can lose even if you try to win.

To lose is dead easier than to win.

One gets more failures than successes.

29.05.2016

To be a matured person…

You will be a matured person

When you own your action,

When you are responsive to issues

And when you adjust yourself to the space.

You will be a matured person

When you stop telling excuses,

When you drop finding escapism

And when you call a spade a spade.

You will be a matured person,

Instead of wondering whether

The people in a meet like you,

If you wonder whether you like them.

You will be a matured person

When you feel that winning argument

With the people you love or need

Is a self-defeating exercise. 

29.05.2016

Must passion betray?

No doubt, he fell in love for her.

No doubt, he has found her worthwhile.

Does he really feel such love

For her at the very moment

‘As she believes to be feeling

And as she hopes to feel for the rest

Of her life towards him?’ Doubtful;

I pity for my little sister.

I was determined not to occupy

His attention to the exclusiveness

Of my sister, whose lover he had been.

The reason of his attentiveness to me

Must be in his casual attempts to win

The good opinion of her relations,

Which might influence her view of him.

I went wrong. He wanted me and not her.

No doubt, he found her attractive.

No doubt, he found me more than her.

It was his fate he saw me later

When he paid a visit to our house.

I wished I had not been back home.

A treachery I could not make.

Maybe he was true to his love.

I stood for the sake of my sister.

22.05.2016

(Influenced by a story Alicia’s letters of Thomas Hardy)

Love has no reason.

Neither argument nor explanation

Does passion require for its maintenance.

Rather an evidence of weakness than

Of strength will be such like attempts when made.

22.05.2016

A changed man

She was a lady of passion;

He was a man of position.

A perfect couple they had been.

The middle age brought monotony.

His confident became her friend.

Far young in age, he was a friend

With easy access to her company.

Proximity brought affinity.

He coveted her, angled for her,

Ached for her and longed for her,

By virtue of her forbidden state

And formidable position.

Irresistible they became

To each other arousal.

An elopement was not a thing,

Either of them hadn’t thought of.

She went a widow abruptly

And bent to think liberally.

He sent a signal not truly

As passionate as it must be.

Whether the obstacle had been

The source of love or as a widow,

She bore less attractive look,

His feelings for her declined

So soon from the incandescence

To a tepid civility.

Their union didn’t materialize.

Thank God! No elopement, he thought.

(Inspired by a story A Changed Man by Thomas Hardy)

22.05.2016

Bidders are sinners.

‘Abortion is a sin’, she told.

Her husband exhorted; she did.

The sin had gone to her husband.

‘Deception is a sin’, he said.

His teacher insisted; he did.

The sin had gone to his teacher.

‘Coercion is a sin’, he felt.

The King ordained and he complied.

The sin had gone to the monarch.

Sin goes to the bidders

And not to the doers

When bidders are these.

According to Vedic norms,

Wives, pupils and subjects

Have no says to their bosses.

12.05.2016

Bitter friends

To make a thing or build a relationship,

It needs time and efforts and at no time

With least efforts do they break away.

Bitter friends in a row accumulate.

16.05.2016

Women rule the men rulers.

Attractive women don’t contest to govern.

They let men contest and win elections.

They are still safe and can get along with men,

Whom they can rule with their charm and friendships.

16.05.2016

Destiny is beyond the scope.

 The husband and wife had kept some money

To use when one of them fell fatally ill.

He fell ill and she sparingly spent,

Thinking of her future and he was left to die.

Later when she fell ill she met the same fate

As her children preferred her money to her.

Because you have been well provided,

It doesn’t mean that you’d be treated to live.

16.05.2016 

Conscience is a virgin.

As a child, when I stole,

My conscience didn’t prick me.

As an adolescent, when I stole,

My conscience pricked me.

As a seasoned man, I seal

With no more pricking.

Conscience is a virgin;

Corrupted, it cannot be restored.

16.05.016

Who commands awe?

 

I please alike the Sun God and the Rain God.

The Sun can scorch me and the Rain can wet.

I please more the one who could harm me

Than the one from whom I receive favours.

10.05.2016

Faith and reason

Knowledge is memory renewed

From perception and experience

Put to the test of reasoning,

Inference and some conviction.

Faith refers to a strong belief

That lacks reason and evidence.

It rests on inspiration

Intuition and revelation.

Knowledge is built also on faith,

The faith on the perception,

The faith on the gathered knowledge

Inference and hypothesis.

Whether or not we could explain

Our beliefs that we hold all along,

We associate with the believers

And pursue the faith, with blind eyes.

Faith comes through non-reasoning means-

The subtle influence of others,

The feelings from the happenings

And the cause and effect connects.

Faith cannot be wiped by reason.

10.05.2016

They call us martyrs!

Soldiers! Nations shower on you tributes.

Mothers! People shower on you homage.

They want you both stick to your assignments.

Maddened of their hails, you sacrifice your lives.

09.05 2016

North and South are the one

North and South are not against each other.

They form together to face East and West.

Government and the Opposition form

Together to face the subjects and their wants.

07.05.2016

Regressive culture bleeds.

Indian culture is the most conservative.

Tamil culture can be the most regressive.

Vigilance against adultery is everywhere.

Virginity and chastity are secure.

Globalization reforms India

Men are always ready for casual sex.

Women aren’t averse when choices are made.

Guilt and qualm are no longer the restraints.

Social media help finding partners.

Workplace and learning place offer bases.

Electronic media establish contacts.

Love, pre and extra marital, swamps the scene.

Dating, courting and flirting abound

But are not translated into mating

For want of place and from hostile public.

Perversion or starvation is the outcome.

Falling in love is an animation;

Pursuing love is an inspiration.

Love is the drainage of emotions blocked.

Shut your eyes to others’ private affairs.

07.05.2016

Who all can make money?

Money can solve most problems;

It gives you comfort and status.

Education is not a need for it.

Money is not needed to make money.

Persistence is the quality.

Drive is the necessity.

Mercy must be put aside.

Means must be silenced.

Self employment is the tool.

Dedication to the task is the rule.

08.05.2016

Ego and Conscience

Man is born with ego and conscience.

Bruised, ego will emit arrogance.

Touched, conscience will display kindness.

To revenge is to assault one’s ego.

To forgive is to touch one’s conscience.

Revenge destroys peace; forgiveness makes peace.

Wounded, one, if strong, reacts, or if weak, curses.

Is there any, so noble to forgive?

06.05.2016

To fall from grace, Kerala

Kerala stands for matri-lineal society.

It’s got a high rate of education;

It’s known for a high female literacy.

It boasts for a progressive feminism.

Kerala sees more crimes against women

Than before and than the national average.

Modesty is outraged in all formats.

Violence in sex once rare is now rampant.

A sure sign of a liberal society

Is how its women are safe on the streets.

Working women feel unsafe to commute.

Kerala is losing its characters.

Elephants are trespassing villages.

Leopards are targeting villagers.

Virile bulls are stalking docile deer.

Kerala! Must you fall from grace? Ponder!

06.05.2016 

Let it come and go

Anger and fear come and go;

Hatred and irks come and go.

Nothing that comes and goes is you.

Be a pillar; don’t succumb.

.04.05.2016

Enough, enough!

Enough of the creed, now begins

The inquiry unto the Ultimate.

Enough of the lust, now begins

The inquiry unto the Reality.

Enough of love and hate, now for

The inquiry unto the Nothingness.

It is like a damage control

Exercise of the tired to turn good.

04.05.2016

Mahakala Bhairav, Shiva

Shiva represents Kala, the Time.

 Kala is the base for all creations.

Kala ticks away and cannot be pinned.

Kala holds together the entire Universe.

Kala implies darkness, which is Space.

Space is the consequence of Kala.

Because of Space, forms are possible.

Because of forms, beings are possible.

Gravity is the byproduct of Time and Space.

Kala is inclusive of Space, which is dark

And no-things, and reverberates to take forms

From which physical existence began.

Kala is Shiva from which originate all.

Shiva in the role as Time represents

As Mahakala Bairav to Hindus.

To merge with Shiva is the end of life.

03.05.2016.

Life beyond a fight

In a fight each one wants to win.

Both strives maximum to get it.

A win is not the end of life.

There is life beyond the tussle.

03.05.2016