For both it is.

Rest: for relief or recharge?

Pause:  to cool down or to brew up?

Lust: to breed or to indulge?

Love: to sacrifice or to possess?

Work: to serve or to survive?

Both, as light and shade of a drawing.

24.07.2016

Dividing people.

Colour and creed divide;

Language and space divide;

Culture and gods divide.

So do works and politics.

Family is the basic

Unit of division.

Division is helpful

For identifications

And solidification.

Division is harmful

From discrimination,

And polarization.

Chips can be divided

By its shape, size, age,

Colour, material, make

And other yardsticks.

They do not divide themselves,

It’s we who segregate them.

24.07.2016

Honour killing in India

No honour is above humanity;

Putting honour above humanity

Is inhuman, and in no way can life

Of one be linked to someone’s honour.

A woman is killed for she brought disgrace

To family when she married one low in caste

Or she was suspected for adultery

Or she indulged in premarital sex.

Man does all sort in the veil of darkness

By which is drawn no disgrace to family.

Only woman can bring disgrace to family.

The State must be harsh with honour killers.

22.07.2016

From Chhandogya Upanishad

Do you know from what place men go from here?

Do you know how they return here again?

What are two paths through which soul ascends?

Do you know why that world never overflows?

Why in the fifth libation is water made Man?

King Pravahana Gaivali asked

Brahmin boy Svetaketu Aruneya in the court.

None of the questions could he answer.

The Shatrika tells the Brahmin thus:

The altar is cosmos, where the fuel is sun,

From where arose the moon.

The altar is clouds, where the fuel is air,

From where rises rain.

The altar is the earth, where the fuel is time(year),

From which rises food. (crop)

The Altar is man, where the fuel is speech,

From where rises semen (water)

The altar is woman, where the fuel is sex,

From where forms foetus.

(Water in fifth oblation is called man)

The germ in the womb in ten months comes.

On death it goes to fire, whence it came.

Two paths through which soul ascends

Are Devayana and Pitrayana.

Through Devayana, those who enters Vanaprastha,

and know truth, go to heaven never to return.

Through Pitrayana, those who do rituals, service

And sacrifice,  go to forefathers and return.

Tat Tvam Asi is the chant of Chhandogya:

Each of us comes from and are that Shelf,

The Atman, nothing less.

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The first oblation to Prana (up-breathing)

The second oblation to Vyana (back-breathing)

The third oblation to Apana (down-breathing)

The fourth oblation to Samana (on-breathing)

The fifth oblation to Udana (out-breathing)

21.07.2016

Sanskrit is India’s heritage.

Sanskrit is the oldest language on earth.

Vedas, Upanishads, Epics and classics

Were in Sanskrit ,a musical language,

A five thousand year old Indo-Aryan.

It gave birth to languages in the North.

It gave grafts to languages in the South.

It is the root of European languages.

It made India proud for its heritage.

Sanskrit is written in Devanagari. (script)

Except Tamil, all Indian languages

Are proud of sanskritization  of words.

Sanskrit, a refined one, went desolate.

Every language spoken in India

And its neigbouring countries has got

Many words drawn from Sanskrit and reminds

 Of Sanskrit as the child does of its father.

21,07.2016

Cause of distress

Some men seek women to fondle;

Some women want men to pamper.

They will form a perfect couple

Some men seek women to nestle to.

Some women have men under her wings.

They will form a perfect couple.

Mismatch is the cause of distress.

19.07.2016

Relationships are short lived.

A woman may end friendship with a man

Not that she smelt  sexual colour in it

But that he crossed the border she set,

Or that furthering of it might smell foul.

19.07.2016