Yoga - an addiction otherwise

Yoga - an Addiction otherwise

Presently "Yoga" is a magic word uttered by swamis, ammas, babas, bapus, aanandaas, sanyaasis and like spiritual "masters" and is working wonders to the imagination of many people. It starts with physical exercises and mostly ends with them as instructed by these commercial gurus.

Many are recommending Yoga to all the presently stressed and strained generation doing the white color jobs. And we have so many "Yogas" in vogue. Most of us are mesmerized by the word Yoga and get inspired to do one or the other Yoga being instructed by our chosen guru. 

What is the fruit of dong that Yoga? The people doing that Yoga know. Yoga and meditation though are same Yoga is equated with physical exercises by many gurus.

Yoga has many names and definitions:

Bhakti Yoga
Karma Yoga
Jnaana Yoga

are proposed, explained and prescribed by the Bhagavadgita in accordance with the mental attitude and liking of the individual.

Yogah karmasu kousalam
Yogah chitta vritti nirodhaha
cheto vritti: uupetya tishthati sadaa saa sthitihi yogah.

Many gurus are advertising and practicing Yoga reducing it to mere performance of physical exercises. I can say many are "addicted" to this definition and practice. Physical exercises are to Yoga as primary education is to education.

Definitely physical exercises will benefit but just doing them is not Yoga. Yoga is a lot to do with mind and its vagaries. One must know and understand what is mind and what are it vagaries and how to get rid of them.
Let us all start to understand Yoga has a lot to do with our mind too and let us practice that also which is almost same as meditation. Unless we have an insight of consciousness, mind, its form, structure, function and control,Yoga remains unintelligible to us and hence will not be able to help us to get rid of our mental stresses and strains and live a life of equanimity. Let us all practice Yoga in all its sublimity.
Else Yoga remains a fascination and fashion.

కట్టడములు

కట్టడములు

రాజుల సొమ్ము రాళ్ళ పాలనుచు సామెత

పూర్వకాలమున రాతి కట్టడములపై పాలకులు

ఎంతో ధనము వ్యర్ధము చేసారు అని విమర్శ

మరి ఈనాడు?

త్రాగు నీరు లేక, సరియైన రహదారులు లేక

రవాణా సౌకర్యములు, రైతులకు సరియైన సాయములు

అందించక అందరను కూలీలను చేయుచు ఆత్మహత్యల బారిన

పడవేయుచు; శాంతి భద్రతలను గాలికి వదిలి

విద్యుత్ సరఫరా అరకొరయైన ఇప్పుడు వీటిని

అభివృద్ధి పరచక, ఇంత సొమ్ము కట్టడములపై
ఏల రాష్ట్రములలో ముఖ్యమంత్రులు వ్యర్ధ పరచుచున్నారు?

ఉన్న కట్టడములను ఉపయోగించుకుని పబ్బము గడుపు కొని

సొమ్ముని అభివృద్ధి కార్యక్రమములకు ఖర్చు పెట్ట రాదా?

పూర్వ కాలపు నియంతలైన  రాజులను మించిన పొగరుతో

ఇష్టారాజ్యముగా చేయు దౌర్భాగ్యము రాష్ట్రములకు పట్టుట

ప్రజా స్వామ్య వైఫల్యమునకు దర్పణము, ఏనాడైనా పాలకులెవరైనా

ఆనువంశికమో ప్రజాస్వామ్యమో ప్రజల సుఖ శాంతులు సౌకర్యములు

క్షేమములు అవసరములేదు నాటి రాజులకైనా నేటి
ఈ నూతన ప్రజా నాయక నియంతలకైనా
 

కాలము గడిచినా రాచరికమైనా ప్రజా స్వామ్యమైనా ప్రజల కొరకు

ఏమీ జరగదు; నాయకుల లెక్కలకే పెద్ద పీట ప్రజల నోట దుమ్ము

కట్టడములపై  డబ్బుచేసికొనవచ్చును ప్రజల సౌకర్యములకు

ఖర్చు పెట్టుదానిలో ఇలా మిగలదు; ఏమీ చెయ్యకపోయినా

ప్రజలు మరల ఎన్నుకొనెదరు మాయ మాటలు నమ్మి శుష్క వాగ్దానములకు

భ్రమసి; దీపముండగానే ఇల్లు చక్కబెట్టు కొనుట నేటి నాయకులకు

వెన్నతో పెట్టిన విద్య, ఉగ్గుపాలతో అందిన చాకచక్యము

అయ్యో పాపము ప్రజలు కసాయిని నమ్ము గొర్రెలు!

తమ బాగు తమకే తెలియని వెర్రి బాగుల ఓటర్లు!

మృతము - అమృతము; ఉనికి - ఉపయోగము

మృతము - అమృతము

లిప్త పాటులో మారును నీరు ప్రవాహమున
గడియలో ముగియును జీవి ఉనికి భూమిపైన

నిమిసమున మారును వ్యక్తి ధనదారిద్ర్యములు
క్షణమున అటు ఇటగును పరిపాలకుల అధికార సంపదలు
అట్టి గడియ లిప్త నిమిసము క్షణము "అమృత"" మగును
నిలిపిన దృష్టి పరంధామునిపై; నిండిన పరమాత్మ సంవిన్మాత్రపు దృష్టిలో
శాంతి ఆనందము నిండి మనసు మౌనమగును
శబ్ద రాహిత్యమున నిశ్శబ్దమే శాశ్వతానుభవమగును
దృష్టి విశ్రాంత మగును రామమగును రామబ్రహ్మమగును
నైరంతర్య గమనికయై వ్యక్తి ధ్యాన రూపమున పరబ్రహ్మమై నిలుచును

ఉనికి - ఉపయోగము

చదివితేనే పుస్తకం అందం ఉపయోగం
పొగిడితేనే రమణి అందం ఉనికి ప్రయోజనం

పడితేనే వర్షం ఉపయోగం
కదిలిస్తేనే కవిత ప్రయోజనం

వదిలేస్తేనే శాంతి మన సొంతం
చదవ వేస్తె పోకూడదు ఉన్న మతి

చదవక ముందు కాకర కాయ అని
చదివేక కీకర కాయ అనకూడదు

చదువుకున్న వానికన్న చాకలి మేలైనా
సంపాదన విషయములో; చదువు లేక
లేదు ప్రగతి, లేదు సాంకేతికత, లేవు అధునాతన
ఉపకరణములు, అవి ఇచ్చే కిక్కులు మనసుపై చేసే ట్రిక్కులు

చదువు మనిషిని జంతువు నుంచి వేరు చేసి చూపుతుంది
చదువు మానసమున కరుణ ప్రేమ నింపుతుంది; మనల
మనీషుల చేస్తుంది; చదువుకోక బిలియన్లు సంపాదించినా
వాళ్ళు మనకు ఆదర్శులు కారు; చదువుకున్న వాళ్ళు కనిపెట్టిన
ఉపకరణములు అమ్ముకుని జీవించే వారిని ఉటంకించి చదువును అవమానించ రాదు
చదువులేక జీవితముందేమో కాని చదువు లేక మనీషి లేడు ప్రగతి లేదు

Mother and Mother's day

Mothers' Day Tribute

Many modern girls are of the opinion that by marrying they are doing a favor for men. But they better know that they are favoring themselves also by marrying. Today is mothers' day. I see many adoring, admiring, affectionate postings commending mother's role and her importance in our lives.

Yes, woman sacrifices many personal ambitions by being mother. Only that sacrifice makes her great. Lip sympathies about greatness of mother are of no use unless most girls become mothers themselves and take the responsibility of whole family as done by their mothers. Else mother remains a biological entity unless she rains love and affection on her near and dear.

Thinking that marriage only benefits men is innocence and ignorance. Offspring belongs to woman as to man and they are her children too. And by taking care of them she is doing her duty as any other mother-animal.

Infants and aged were taken care of by mothers in families. Thus they have been little Mother Theresas to their respective families. This culture is now giving place to woman being a member of the family rather than the member of the family.

Many self-proclaimed intellectuals and NGOs are defining the role of woman as entirely different. They want woman to be "directly" useful to the society by being herself in fulfilling her ambitions and not wasting her talents by being a mere housewife getting confined to home.
They are all professing that woman loses her identity by being a mere housewife and that is not acceptable to them. Who are they to accept or not? No one is questioning these "intruders" for their irresponsible suggestions in the guise of women's liberation.

The girls must be the deciding individuals about their lives, and how they should live. In case they feel marriage and motherhood are preventing them from being what they are and what they want to become and be, they can take their own decisions to free themselves from the routine and burden of being a mere housewife. Then, they praising motherhood does not sound convincing. Let the girls, their parents and their well wishers discuss and help girls in choosing their life course and style.
The best tribute to motherhood a young girl can pay is she herself becoming such a sweet,

responsible lovely mother. Else tributes being paid to mothers on mothers' day remain a mere rhetoric and the spirit of motherhood they praise sounds halo when such girls adore and admire mother and motherhood with their lip sympathy utterances and shares on social networking sites. Let all involved contemplate seriously and deeply. And let not fake intellectuals and NGOs who do not have any stake in a girl's life by not being her near and dear have any say in the girl's life matter and issue.

Devamanohari - Divine Damsel (Fiction)

DEVAMANOHARI

Devamanohari  is in search of genuine happiness. Who is she we will know during the course of this narration. She is advised to meet Swami Ratyaananda.

Swami Ratyaananda is from the school of Osho. He preaches nirvana through the medium of sexual intercourse to his devotees. He currently runs an Ashram in the outskirts of Bangalore. He is a good orator and has command over our scriptures and is proficient in English, Sanskrit, and all the four important south Indian languages in addition to Hindi. He many times owes himself his success to his ability to converse in so many tongues. His clientele includes all sections of the society- from ordinary citizens to prominent politicians and the elite. He mixes Vedanta with sex so delightfully that all his devotees become delirious by mere mention of his name.

Like many current commercial spiritual gurus he is adept in managing his finances. He is running a grand spiritual, no, financial empire. He is confident of himself and is ruling his life as he desires. He is not interested in visiting or settling abroad. The bitter experience of his guru Osho made him wise and realize, that of all the countries in the world India is safest for people like him. Osho made enemies through his unrestrained preaching of sex as the instrument for nirvana. He angered the majority religious heads of the USA with his undiplomatic behavior there.

 Swami Ratyaanada is aware of this. He does not want to beget the miserable state of his mentor of suffering jail terms, being kicked out of the country of his adoption, name, fame and money, and being refused asylum by all countries. Osho has to return to India, which country he criticized or even despised, and  thanks to the unnecessary graciousness shown by politicians of that day got reprieve in India and of course died not as a spiritual guru but as one battered by destiny. It is interesting how such a powerful guru who mesmerized everybody was never able to really comprehend the essence and greatness of Indian spirituality and succumbed to cheapness, carnal pleasures, in their preaching and spread. 

It seems all this made Swami Ratyaananda more matured and he is very careful and selective in his amorous adventures. Though many beautiful women like to be his companions, he is cautious in such dealings. This story describes his (mis-) adventures with a beautiful actress. That is our Devamanohari.

Devamanohari is a successful cine actress. She is now twenty seven years old. She is very beautiful with proportionate body with all curves, elevations and depressions in their place. Swami Ratyaananda is enamored of her. Devamanohari is also a professional like the Swami. So Swami’s encounter with her has not been so smooth and easy.

Like all other persons of her tribe, Devamanohari has everything but an intimate person to love and be loved. All her relationships are guided and dictated by her profession where calculation but not passion is the chief thing. All human-beings crave for affectionate words, conversations and deeds from loving hearts. When it is missing, they with false hopes, turn to drugs, drinking, companionships or commercial spiritual gurus for happiness, peace and solace. Here also they do not like to shed their egos and the clever spiritual gurus cater to their egoistic mind intelligently. Of course, this is the professional secret of all the commercial spiritual gurus.

ButDevamanohari is made of different stuff. She is in search of real happiness and is shrewd.

Through the pomp, show and intelligent preaching of the Swami, she could, like Divine Swan, separate water from milk. The Swami is also not young. Kanya varayate roopam, which means girls crave for handsomeness in men. That is missing in our Swami. His strength is his oratory powers and discourse abilities on intercourse. Devamanohari wants aesthetic enjoyment and not mere mechanical movements.   

Actually a young song writer in the film industry has appealed to her but he is too low in status. Her popularity is so high and her earnings so huge that she could not settle for him. Her heroes are booze lovers and do not have the aesthetic temperament and give pleasure she is looking for.  Sweet conversations delivered through loving hearts are her requirement. She is also adept in music and dance and adores poetry.

Our Ratyaananda is a big zero in these aspects. But he is struck with flower arrows by Cupid. Devamanohari is obedient but not obliging. Her acquaintance with the Swami is six months old. During this period she understood all aspects of the Ashram and the Swami.

Her interest with the Swami is dwindling. But she is cleverly managing so that the Swami does not know her within.

One day the Swami has become desperate. When both of them are alone, he revealed himself. Devamanohari has the blood of courtesans in her. She is capable of alluring and avoiding her clients. Then she started preaching the Swami the real spirituality and the need for control and shedding of carnal desires. Ratyaananda became mad with desire for her and the preaching and her unconcern for him annoyed him immensely. When he decided to rape her, Devamanohari made friends with him by promising a beautiful moonlit night experience and escaped present attempt.

Men exhibit naivety in dealings with women. Especially for sexual favors, they will be in a state of beggars and sheepishly and slavishly believe women. Women know this and use this mantra when they do not like the man and experience with him. This is the bane of nature to men and boon to women. Devamanohari intuitively is aware of this and utilized the nature’s gift to her.

Devamanohari is disappointed that she is not able to get the happiness she is craving for and Swami Ratyaananda is miserable in not being able to enjoy carnal pleasure with Devamanohari.

Swami all these days has been a modern Krishna but Devamanohari has turned out to be the elusive Radha.

Despite his popularity, wealth, name and fame and knowledge of the sadhana he is preaching, Swami has not been able to seduce Devamanohari successfully.

Any attempt to be joyful without commitment and responsibility will ultimately lead to sorrow and misery. We being famous, rich or beautiful have nothing to do with this.

Only our sincere cultivation of love and relationship gives us the required happiness and fulfillment. .Merely craving for intercourse without the merger of the hearts is not the path of salvation. Heart plays a major role in these matters. Emotions are fulfilled in the exchange of sweet and pure hearts. In the cultivation of a harmonious and beautiful psychological relationship lies the secret of happiness, peace and bliss.  

Both Swami Ratyaananda and Devamanohari are leading their lives in dejection despite richness and attractions. This is the wonder of fate and destiny.

Mr. Johnson (Fiction)

                                                          MR. JOHNSON      

     I am a journalist by profession. I am also interested in literature. I am a part-time writer. I have been dabbling in writing poetry and fiction. I have read fiction in my mother tongue, Sanskrit, English, French and German. I have my own favorite writers. I am having the fear that my fiction- writing would be influenced by some or all of them. But who can escape the influence of one’s own study and learning? 

We are influenced not only in literary writing but also in our daily lives. We ape either the west or follow the Indian tradition in our life-styles. We respectively feel, we are only civilized, and others are languishing in before Christ thoughts or ultra-modernism.

We not only congratulate us for our preference and choice but also feel blissful in such living and at times preach others about it.

Such a preaching happens everywhere, every time and by every one. Here in this story I narrate the preaching of Mr. Johnson and Mr. Viswanatham. 

I am a popular TV telecaster on a popular English channel. I am based in Bangalore.

Mr. Johnson is the CEO of a big American Multi National Company. They do business in many countries and sell American stuff. Their IT solutions firm is centered in Bangalore.

I am there in the chambers of Mr. Johnson. Mr. Johnson just finished attending to a phone call and told me that my interview starts in five minutes when he finishes talking to a visitor.

Meanwhile a fairly old senior citizen has entered Mr. Johnson’s chambers. Immediately after seeing him Mr. Johnson said “You should be very brief Mr, Viswanatham. You have five minutes.” Mr Viswanatham nodded and started talking.

‘In your administrative office was working Subrahmanyam, and he is my grandson. But Mr. Johnson, you are not happy that Subrahmanyam is employed in your organization. I am here to tell you about our family situation and employment situation in India. All this I have to inform to you and I will do that in the five minutes you have kindly granted me in your valuable and busy schedule. I also know that this gentleman has to interview you after my leaving your room. Ai am also well-educated and has retired as a school teacher and am adept in all knowledge including current affairs.’

‘You also listen Mr.’.  I told him my name as Vijay. ‘Yes Mr. Vijay” Viswanatham sir told me and continued

“Mr. Johnson your objection for Subrahmanyam’s employment is that Subrahmanyam is just fifteen years old. And your company does not do business on products manufactured by child-labor or employ children in your offices.

Your fellow Americans and Europeans recently cancelled the order they placed with a Delhi manufacturer of ready-made wear because the manufacturer has employed child-labor from Bihar and UP for the work

We all know that you are very strict in these matters and are fighting in WTO to eradicate the evil of child-labor prevalent in Asian countries.

You took charge only a few days back and found Subrahmanyam employed as an office-boy to serve tea etc., to the staff. You came to know that Subrahmanyam is a teenager from his looks and summoned him into your room. In the presence of your deputy you readied his dismissal order and served it on Subrahmanyam.

‘yes we are very particular that children must go to school and get educated. They must not be employed and their childhood should not be wasted in labor.’ Said mr. Johnson.

‘Mr. Johnson, I know that you are so upset with the child labor reality in our country.

Mr Johnson this is just a policy matter for you. But this is a life and death matter for us.

You must know that my only son and his wife, who happen to be the parents of Subrahmanyam have expired in a road accident six months back. I do not have any other child. I had to take the responsibility of my grandson. Even when my son was alive our family was experiencing hand to mouth existence and my son was having difficulty in making both ends meet for us. My meager pension has been of not much use in these days of steep inflation.

We could not join my grandson in any good school because we can not afford it and also we are dependent on his earnings also, to sustain ourselves. He was studying in a corporation school and in the evenings working to help his father in maintaining our family. 

We belong to a forward community. We neither have a social justice plank nor money to rob merit of its due and, fight for our merit, which is presently despised by every politician and also by majority citizens in our country. The profession undertaken by the grandparents and earlier generations of the individual is considered as qualification to give a seat in the educational institutions run by our government and also for a government job too same criterion is followed. The individual’s talents and academic traits and performances do not figure at all in such selections. And our community is not a vote bank. So politicians never care for any of out needs, even bare minimum like food, shelter and clothing. 

We never understand how the deeds of earlier generations should be an excuse to rid us of our genuine rights as the citizens of our country. To make you understand better, I must tell you that our community is persecuted as the Jews were in Germany during Hitler’s regime. We are discriminated against by present day politicians who are grabbing power, making money, amassing wealth and introducing their kith and kin to perpetuate their hold on government and people, spreading hatred against us. They always show us as the villains for all the evils of our society and thus enjoy power and limelight. Whenever they are in trouble for their misdeeds, they remember us and start abusing us to divert the attention of the people from their failures, corruption, misdeeds and mis-utterances.

Why I have to tell you all this is my grandson’s job with you is life line for us. We have to starve otherwise. I am seventy five years old and can no longer work and earn to sustain myself and my grandson.

“But Mr. Viswanatham How I am responsible for all this?!” exclaimed, Mr. Johnson.

Mr. Viswanatham continued:

 “Yes, Mr. Johnson I will clarify. You want to interfere in every sphere of life of our country. You do not want anti-conversion laws to be enacted in our country. But your clergy got alarmed for the teachings and following by large numbers of Americans of Osho and hounded him out of your country after jailing him and humiliating him thoroughly. 

You the champions of democracy have pampered and helped the most number of dreaded dictators of the world since second-world war. You made Saddam, Taliban and you are waging a war for their elimination. You are not definitely moral or military police of the globe. Just selfish citizens interested in your own welfare and your oil supplies.

You have come here to do business. Do it understanding the realities of our country. I am a retired teacher adept in all our ancient knowledge and now can lecture you on many aspects of life and its management. I am proficient in my mother tongue, Sanskrit and English. But I am past my age. And in our country there is no need and use of citizens like me. I am poor but not in knowledge or common sense. Do not try to impose your biased values on us. Starvation knows no rules or obeys any.

You have your own western way of administration and you are completely ignorant of the ground realities associated with employment and education facilities situation in India. Unfortunately your ignorance has given place to exhibition of unnecessary arrogance, highly moral stature and preaching about Indian situations and needs to us. You must also know that your country and many European countries did not exist when civilization was flourishing in all its aspects and hues in our country.

 And, before that, prevent your boys from playing with matches and cause devastating fires. Prevent your pistol and gun wielding school students from killing fellow students and teachers. Prevent your Presidents from starting international wars just for oil for you and cause genocide and fuel terrorist activities.

By the by Mr. Johnson, how many times you have divorced?’

“Three times”, Mr. Johnson replied involuntarily.

 ‘Prevent yourself and your fellow citizens from ruining their marriages frequently and take divorces and get remarried many times in a life-time. Also ask them to take care of infants, kids and aged people of the families. Have a proper social system. Do not preach others about values. And my five minutes are over Mr. Johnson.”

Mr. Johnson is visibly upset by this tirade against him and his country by a poor retired school teacher. His face has reddened. But he understood the pathetic situation of Mr. Viswanatham. But their policy can not be changed for this case’s sake. He, though summarily dismissed Mr. Viswanatham informing him that his grandson can not be taken into employment again, offered financial help for Subrahmanyam’s studies.

Mr. Viswnatham has politely rejected the offer saying “Even if my grandson completes his degree or so by your partial financial assistance, which will not be and can not be given for the full phase of his studies, the problem of employment still stares on our faces. We are not sure that he gets a job after studies in the current contaminated job atmosphere and we have to starve all these years and my health is not sound. I do not know how long I shall live. Under these circumstances we will try at some other place for his employment. Thank you Mr. Johnson for your kind audience and offer for financial help. Good bye”

Mr. Johnson has recovered from this and he gave me a very good interview.

I got subject-matter for a short-fiction in the conversation of Mr. Johnson and Mr. Viswanatham.

  

Divine Notes, God belongs to whom? The matter that must matter

DIVINE NOTES FROM THE DIVINE DREAM

Goddess Saraswathi is playing on Veena

Melodious and blissful Divine Notes;

Lord Brahma is creating from the Notes

Provided by Lord Vishnu and Lord Siva;

Musical notes and creative notes

Merged together and poets are created;

I am there along with Vaalmiki, Vyaasa, Bhaasa, Kalidaasa

Bhavabhooti, Maagha, Visaakhadatta, Sudraka,

The eminent Sanskrit poets and dramatists seated in one row;

In a row opposite, I saw Homer, Shakespeare, Bretolt Brecht, Gurajaada Appaarao,

And many Asian, European and American and other Continental poets and dramatists;

In another row are seated Tyaagaraja, Muthuswami Diskshitar, Syaama Sastri,

Beethoven, Morzart and many composers, and musicians like M.S. Subbulakshmi

From the east and the west together with Einstein, S.N. Bose, Yallapragada Subbarao;

Ravivarma, Picaso and other artists and sculptors too are seated

In another row with Bharatha Muni, Siddhendra Yogi and other dance theoreticians and dancers

I am there to learn the art of writing drama

From Goddess Saraswathi and creative techniques from Lord Brahma;

Saraswathi while playing veena looked gracefully at Bhaasa,

Who in turn looked at Kalidaasa, and the rest of Sanskrit dramatists;

They all benevolently looked at me enchantingly

I became blissful and one with My Self;

And Gurajada Apparao garu too glanced at me in a friendly way

Together with Shakespeare, Bretolt Brecht and the rest;

My heart started singing the glory of the Divine Congress

Of poets, dramatists, intellectuals, artists, technicians, composers and musicians I have witnessed;

In me has taken place such a transformation

I started writing a drama then and there itself;

It is like a dream; literally it is a Divine dream

And after waking up I felt I am blessed

And started composing a drama based on

The Divine Notes I shared just now

Collected from my Divine dream

GOD BELONGS TO WHOM?

God belongs to whom?

To the fundamentalist, devotee, or to whom He belongs?

And belongs He only to the religion?

Religions hijacked by barbarians are

Causing civilized people confusion about religion;

Rituals are dominating, spirituality is missing;

Compassion and accommodation of dissidence disappeared;

Culture is defined and dictated by half-informed individuals;

Are religion and culture one and the same?

Is there any subtle difference leaving room to the individual’s interpretation?

Is religion just one aspect of sociology and social living among many?

Or an all encompassing and dominating social fabric

With no room or space for fresh weaving with new threads;

Are religions stagnated waters or flowing rivers;

Are they at dead end or are evolving?

Does at all God belong to religion?

Does not He have His own Existence,

Transcending limitations fixed by ignorant religious preachers and followers;

So many questions but no answer;

The Omniscient, Omnipresent and Omnipotent

Is understood confined to rituals and their performance;

It is sad that God is imprisoned in names, forms, slogans alone

And His presence every where and every moment

In the hearts of his Creation is forgotten;

God belongs to whom?

Belongs only to the religion, fundamentalist and such maniacs?

God only knows.

THE MATTER THAT MUST MATTER

The sky and the ocean

In their pervading vastness in expansion

Elegantly represent, manifest and reflect Divine Formation;

Their blueness corresponds to Love and the depths of Divine Compassion

;

The nature around us in its bountiful possessions

 Nourishes us like loving mother

With rains, fruits, grains

Clean river waters and pure air;

Are we, and animate and inanimate beings

The result of creation or evolution

Are we children of God and are tiny gods and goddesses

Or mere matter and energy and their mutual actions

And interactions in time and space;

How does it matter?

Once that we are here what must matter is;

We must all shine as sparks of knowledge, wisdom and compassion

Benevolence, intelligence and love;

“Though belonging to different nations, cultures, civilizations, religions, ideologies

We are all manifestations of same Divine Energy and Matter

And are equally dear children of Divinity”;

This realization must dawn in every one of us

And be practiced,

Is all the matter that must matter