Pressure and depression

Pressure to perform or to prove a point

Comes from parents, teachers, masters and peers,

And will cause depression. Have safety valves.

Pressures self-assumed exert no pressure.

30.10.2016

Existentialism seeks attention.

You must own your action.

It is not God’s design.

No Karma theory works.

Your failure is from your cause.

Don’t blame external force.

Avoid escapism.

You are the best ruler

Of yourself and your wants.

Existentialism exhorts 

To live in the present,

Examine the facts thrown,

And disbelieve dogmas.

26.10.2016

Bureaucracy

Be he a monarch, or an autocrat

Or a democrat, the bureaucracy,

 Which is the rule of no one, will assume

Despotism and cripple the ruler.

27.10,2016   

Happiness in suffering

“In suffering, look for happiness”

In case causes are not traceable

Or unenvisaged or beyond your grasp.

Sacrifice is not the solution.

Employ relativity theory.

In suffering, hope is happiness.

22.10.2016

Writers need to say.

Writers are assaulted in many ways.

They are persecuted, whipped, tortured,

Incarcerated, exiled and murdered.

It is a case in democracy too.

Freedom of speech is the freedom to say

What you intend to, though hated by some.

Those who never hurts others’ sentiments

Needs no freedom of speech from anyone.

Writers wage war not against the rulers;

They write against the fundamentalism.

They write against rites and superstition.

They write against oppressive tendencies.

If someone dislikes what I have averred

He must counter it by words and not swords.

I have right to say which you don’t like though.

Writers need to say some don’t like to hear.

16.10.2016

Learn humanities too

Humanities tell you the why of life.

Technologies tell you the how of life.

Humanities provide the meaning of life.

Technologies lend the means of life.

Learning science and technology grows up

And learning arts and literature is dropped.

The students are produced as race horses.

They lack consideration and compassion.

Study the Shakespeare or the Tagore;

Understand the emotion and commotion.

Expatiate on the reign of Buddha.

Understand the pathos and tolerance.

You must not transform yourself to a robot.

Then you will function in isolation.

Insecure feelings will engulf your life.

Learn humanities to be a human.

16.10.2016

Immunity to law

A king has been in the incentive care;

He is supported by mechanism.

Care is running for some weeks in secret.

Some people gossip that he has been critical.

The prince affirms that the king give orders.

Who is right? Who is to be tried?

The prince puts gossipers behind the bar

And enjoys immunity to the law.

16.10.2016

Where is the absolute

I learn from parents their ignorance too.

I learn from teachers their ignorance too.

All knowledge is limited to the ignorance

Of the providers with no escape routs.

12.10.2016

Meditation gains energy.

Sleep is a kind of rest to mind and body.

Meditation is a kind of rest;

Sleep restores and meditation conserves.

Sleep is passive and meditation, active.

In the state of meditation, one is

Like an arrow resting on a pulled back

String of the bow with energy gathered.

When released it will not fall but shoot.

Meditation prepares while sleep sedates.

10.10.2016

Marital rape

Man cannot force his wife for sex at will.

Then it will be considered a rape.

Can he then seek others who consent it?

Suppose man does not satisfy his wife,

Can she admit men who are in a bee line?

Must we separate sex from family?

Not a bad idea for erotic joy.

Not a bad idea for freedom of life.

10.10.2016

Dry the seeds.

What is poison other than anything

In excess: passion, anger and hatred?

What is fear other than the refusal

To accept unwanted things to occur?

What is anger other than the refusal

To accept unwanted things come?

What is hate other than the refusal

To accept others as they are in nature?

What is jealousy but the refusal

To accept the growth that comes to others?

It is you who water the seed to grow.

09.10.2016

All are braggarts

We boast about knowledge got, position

Held, laurels conferred and places visited.

We display our photos in social media.

Others must know about us and hold high.

Sometime we brag about something not true;

Often we brag about things in exaggeration.

Also we make self-deprecating statements

To draw attentions to the things of our pride.

Bragging is done to have a feel good mind.

Listeners often loath excess bragging.

Bragging does no good in a real sense.

What you are now to them only matters.

09.10.2016

Patience is a quality.

Patience with family is love.

Patience with peers is friendship.

Patience with elders is respect.

Patience to the low is compassion.

Patience to the needy is service.

Without patience you’re secluded.

08.10.2016 

Festivals on gods

Any festival in the name of God

Is not spiritual, but ritual.

Community spirit is the purpose.

Get together interest is the bait.

08.10.2016

Warning and solace

Health cannot be bought with money
Death God cannot be fought with money.
Here lies solace to all people. 
Here lies warning to all people

 07.10.2016

Coherent Breathing Exercise

 The autonomic nerves system runs

The automatic functions of organs.

Respiration process has an effect on these.

We can impact it involuntary though.

The autonomic nerves system shifts

Itself between two states in respiration.

Sympathetic state: fight or flight mood.

Parasympathetic state: calm and relaxation.

Inhalation activates sympathetic state.

Energizing is the productivity.

Exhalation effects parasympathetic state.

Calmness is the consolidation.

With breathing technique we can manipulate

Emotional  and psychological states.

With the slow and deep breathing exercise

We can heighten productivity with less stress.

Inhale and exhale longer and deeper

Without holding breaths. Be it five full breaths

A minute for five minutes in a relaxed mood,

With eyes shut, to enjoy realization.

06.10.2016

Apology must repair.

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Apology asked, one dresses one’s quilt.

Apology taken, one dresses one’s bruise.

It is a repairing mechanism,

Sincerity is the skill needed for it.

Apology is the owning the act.

It must spring from the remorse undergone.

Undergoing humiliation is the punishment.

Displaying magnanimity is the reward.

A bad apology tendered is worse

Than no apology. When a strong one

Apologizes to a weak one

That apology carries immense weight.

04.10.2016

The menace of the crimes(India)

Some are beaten to death in public places.

Some are robbed at gun point in public places.

Women are stalked, assaulted and murdered.

Murder is the outcome of revenge or rage.

People watching a crime taking place

Chose to ignore it and don’t try to stop it.

This gives much confidence to the doers

To commit crime without fear of the public.

Some crimes are committed by criminals.

Some crimes happen on the spur of the moment.

Some crimes are paid and some against wrong person.

Some from anger blown out proportion;

Victims are hard hit undeservingly.

Offenders are bold alarmingly.

No empathy from the state or people.

People feel unsafe and the State reaps sins.

Forbearance and forgiveness is the key.

Every parent has a duty towards it.

Every teacher has a duty towards it..

Law enforcer has a duty towards it.

03.10.2016

Love unrequited.

The unrequited love is a cause

Of concern that cripples everyone.

It includes the love got less than one given

The love got below one’s expectation

And the love got less than given to some.

It confines not to sexual love arena,

But extends to parental and offspring love,

And spreads to siblings and peers love as well

No one is immune to this sentiment.

It is an inborn trait like jealousy

The residual effects must be sorrow

Or anger but now turn to violence.

30.09.2016

Live as a traveler.

A tourist visits places,

Enjoys and experiences

With all the comforts ensured.

He’is passive in pursuit.

A traveler seek places,

Explores and makes observations.

With no aversion to strains.

He is active in pursuit.

Live as a traveler.

28.09.2016

A saint has a past

St. Valmihi, who wrote Ramayana,

The epic, had a past as a robber.

St. Augustine , called Doctor of Churches

Had a past as being a hedonist.

Indira  Nehru Gandhi, notorious

For Emergency, had a past of a dove.

Adolf Hitler, a Nazi and fascist,

Had a past as a German patriot.

It is within you that you turn over

A new leaf in case you soil your leaves

The noble with the bad past is a noble.

The evil with the good past is an evil.

27.09.2016

Equanimity

An enemy though he is,

Don’t hate him.

It might affect your judgment.

A partner though he is,

Don’t love him.

It might affect your judgment.

Equanimity, do hold

In treatment

To avoid embarrassment.

26.09.2016

Love’s shadow is hate.

 Every action has an equal

And opposite reaction

Every object throws its shadow

To the light it receives.

Every love has a relevant

And opposite hate elsewhere. 

Universal love is a myth.

Hate is the excretion of love.

26.09.2016

The celebrity status

To be invincible and enviable

Is the drive that makes one a celebrity.

To be the object of adoration

Is the drive that makes one a celebrity.

A celebrity is no more a class apart.

His followers are no more nave and simple.

They nurture envy and reservation

And won’t run to his rescue in trouble.

A celebrity is no more someone

Revered and beyond others’ hope to reach.

He is someone who has by luck become,

And who knows how long it would last, they think.

A celebrity’s foils are exaggerated.

Greater punishments are contemplated.

He becomes more vulnerable and goes

Without a halt to his fall when it comes.

A celebrity status is a glass house,

So visible to the media’s eyes

And so invincible to the public

That a fall when it occurs is fatal.

25.09.2016

Cure for sickness

Family is sick where the mother is undermined.

Society is sick where the teachers are undermined.

Culture is sick where the scholars are undermined.

Justice is sick where Juries are undermined.

Everyone is sick if corruption intervenes.

23.09.2016

Is there any Krishna’s counterpart?

Krishna is made a romantic god.

He is surrounded by pretty women.

Every girl loves him; he reciprocates.

Why is there no female counterpart

To be surrounded by handsome men,

Every man loving her and she requiting?

It can never be in patriarchy culture.

A woman will not love more than one man,

Though loved by many, in all literatures.

22.09.2016

Money and leisure time

One values money more than time

And the other, in the reverse.

Who is happier of the two?

Both are, though vary in its level.

More time and less money need not

Be the key to one’s happiness.

More money and less time need not

Be the cause of unhappiness.

A man of wealth with leisure time

As much is not as happy as

The one who values much the time.

Focus on the time is crucial.

The one who is after money

At the cost of time trails behind

The one who saves the leisure time,

In the level of happiness.

18.09.2016

Pain and loss

Pain is unavoidable

but suffering is optional.

Loss is unavoidable

but sorrow is optional.

Happening is from outside;

Management is within you.

17.09.2016

Sanctum Sanctorum

N.M. Modi rose to be Prime Minister

From an ordinary class, selling tea.

M.S. Dhoni rose to be Cricket Captain

From an ordinary tribe, living low.

Abdul J Kalam rose to be President

From a minority, just eking out.

Jagjivan Ram rose to be a Stalwart

Of the depressed class he belonged to.

Had they been the first class law graduates,

Could they have become Supreme Court’s judges?

Independent India has broken

 Royal rings in all save  judiciary.

The higher judiciary is sanctum

Sanctorum exclusively to the elite,

To which come only the elite people,

Through a collegiums of judges, the elite.

17.09.2016

A granary of narcissism

I had kept an album of my photos

In the drawing hall for the visitors

To see and admire or pretend to do.

They were very few and far between.

Now I post my image with no efforts,

And I get likes and comments in hundreds

At no time, thanks to Face Book media.

Face Book is the granary of narcissism.  

17.09.2016

Factors that help success.

When to fight and when not to fight,

Where to fight and where not to fight,

And whom to fight and whom not to fight

Would determine one’s successes.

16.09.2016

What is value?

Value is a type of illusion

Formed of emotion common

To children, lovers and idiots.

Value is nil to the enlightened.

16.09.2016

I love to lose relations.

I have some relations on father’s side;

I would like to lose them.

I have got some relations on mother’s side;

I would like to lose them.

I have lost my mother and father,

Which might be the cause.

15.09.2016

Tell me a person, I shall tell rules.

You can reject the rose for its thorn

Or accept it for its scent as you please.

Judgments are made the way one wants,

Picking such things as would suit one’s wish.

15.09.2016

Invest in playing outdoor games.

Invest in sports as in education;

A game, full of luck, demands no practice.

A game, much on skills, improves with practice.

Sports promote health, stamina and skills.

Psychomotor abilities develop;

Emotional intelligence expands;

A value of ethics is well instilled;

Criminal tendencies get a setback.

Self-motivation is in operation;

Spontaneity is getting a boost.

The benefits of the game is same

To the winner and the loser.

Learn a sport and play, instead of watching.

Let your child play as much as in study.

Be it a sprinter rather than a watch dog.

Invest in sports as in education.

15.09.2016

Loving is deadly.

Are you crazy of a woman

Who lives down the lane?

Are you obsessed with a woman

Who is a fellow commuter?

Are you smitten with a woman

Who works in your establishment?

Do you have recognizing signs

From them in the course of contacts?

Staring, stalking and voyeurism

Mean outraging woman’s modesty

And you can very well be booked

Under the new law enacted.

Let your libido find its flow

In catharsis and fantasy. 

15.09.2016

For some respite

The world is a web; things are connected,

Animate and inanimate, into it.

Each one is a prey and a predator.

No happiness is exclusive to one.

No suffering is exclusive to one.

No God comes to rescue to anyone.

The localized species vise mutual

Relationships can provide some respite.

14.09.2016  

Fear and its role

Fear is an apprehension of events.

Fear is a warning of repercussion.

An alarm bell of scarcity of needs,

Impending dangers or any phobia;

Fear is a problem of mind, internal.

To reason it out can lessen the fear.

Faith is a solicitor against fear.

Fight or flight is an option to face it.

Anger and anxiety are its products.

Blushing and shyness are its silver line.

Love and hate are its manifestation.

Fear fears shame; fear fears one’s reputation.

Fear is the brake to desires unbridled.

Fear is the reins to evil tendencies.

Fear is a mind awakening process.

Fear is the nature of the insecure mind.

Risk is fear’s opponent component.

Greed is fear’s compulsive controller.

Honour blinds fear; love and sex blind fear.

Sans fear, one is ignorant or mad.

14.09.2016.

The greatest entertainment

Man and woman who find more fun

Between the sheets, sensing the heat,

Will require no entertainments,

Nor discontents nor depression.

13.09.2016

Infinity in the finite

Infinity exists in finite things.

It is in the seed that leads to a tree.

It is in the egg that yields to a hen.

Infinite life force lives in finite bodies.

13.09.2016

The jungle rule

The polity and the governance are,

Which are influenced to a greater extent

By demands made by the privileged

Community, a minority,

At the cost of silent majority

In accordance with the Darwin Law,

That states the survival of the fittest,

Throwing to the wind the norm of justice,

And equality for which the polity is.

No rule is different from the jungle rule.

13.09.2016

Going forward to the past

Guttenberg invented the printing press.

Oral media gave way to written media.

Internet social media has come in.

Written media gives way to oral media.

‘Going forward to the past’ is the trend

That tells upon human activities.

12.09.2016

Why are you seeking God?

Basic wants kept, one can be happy.

With no ill health, one can be happy.

To care and to be cared, must there be some.

No misfortune must come to upset one.

Can one be guaranteed these  all the time?

This fear complex drives one towards the God.

1.09.2016

No death in the house

I wish I die outside the house I built

With the body not brought to the house

Lest the body laid site should haunts inmates.

The old house where my parents died, scares them.

02.09.2016

Which commands which?

The bone and the dog;

The mare and the horse;

The calf and the cow;

Which commands which?

Food, sex and race determine.

02.09.2016

Life, a balance sheet

One gives you a gift; another takes it.

One gives you one’s heart; someone gets yours.

One rescues you; another traps you.

You do good ones and harm and receive likewise.

01.09.2016

Speak in your voice.

As a child, you spoke in one voice of yours.

As an adult, many voices speak in you:

Parents, pears, teachers, elders and children.

You’ve been redeemed when you speak in your voice.

01.09.2016

Criterion for happiness

Move with the people you like

Or those who like your company

And do works that comfort you.

It gives you most of happiness.

Money has a least role on these.

31.08.2016

Jain’s Ten days festivals

Ten days festival Jain celebrates;

Self purification is the agenda.

Rededication to dharma is the goal.

Human is the incarnation of Atman.

The resolution made in the first day

Is to shun pride, which leads to immodesty.

The resolution in the second day

Is to observe honesty and righteousness.

The third day observed resolution

Is to be truthful to fellow beings.

The fourth day observed resolution

Is to obtain freedom from defilement.

On the fifth day the observation

Is to practice abstinence everyday.

On the sixth day, the observation

Is to do penance to grow a hermit.

The adoption made in the seventh day

Is to relinquish by way of charity.

The adoption made in the eighth day

Is to have limit on worldly possession.

Maintaining chaste and  moral behavior

And forgiving and seeking forgiveness

Fall as ninth and tenth day deliberations.

Atman thus prepares to reach Nirvana.

(1. Mardawa, 2. Arjawa, 3. Satya, 4. Shauch,

5. Sanyama, 6. Tapa, 7. Tyaga, 8. Aparigraha,

9., Brahmacharya and 10. Paryushana are the names of ten days festival)

30.08.2016

Crytomnesia

We receive many things from many ones

Over a period of time and accumulate

Along with things bought and kept in the house.

For some, the source goes out of memory.

The same thing happens when you write a thought

As yours, with its source gone out of memory.

You don’t set out to steal things. It happens

And you’re an accidental plagiarist.

30.08.2016

The shock observer.

A coward is never a murderer,

Nor is he to commit suicide either.

To forgo and forgive is his ordeal.

A shock observer of the society;

30.08.2018

Sexual orientation

Sexual orientation takes place in one

Towards woman, man or both, any age,

Though across sex is common and natural.

To be attracted is sex oriented.

Sexual orientation is instant

Among youths and is with social sanction.

Man’s robust growth and woman’s skin in glow

Serve as a stimulant for arousal,

Sexual orientation is constant

Among the middle aged and cross firing.

Man’s sturdy paunch and woman’s solid breasts

Serve as a catalyst for arousal.

Sexual orientation is persistent

Among the aged and looks like platonic.

Man’s wits and rank and woman’s toned cheeks

Serve as a potential for arousal.

The old for the middle aged and vice versa,

The middle aged for the youth and vice versa,

And the old for the youth and vice versa,

Might develop sexual orientation.

Sexual orientation is not ruled out

Among boys and girls below fifteen too.

Sexual orientation is subconscious

Among boys and girls below five years.

Sexual orientation is Chronophilias,

That strikes anywhere without any ethics.

It is genes born and behaves like a dog,

To be led by a rope when not in the cage.

30.08.2016

(Nepiophila : from age 3 to 5- Sex subconscious

Pedophila : from age 5 to 15- sex sublimated.

Teleiophilia : From age 16 to 30 – sex explicit

Mesophilia : From age 3i to 60 – sex implicit

Gerontophilia:  Age above fifty – sex emotional.)