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To impress no more
Are chief factors making
Death a deadly horror
To the one facing it.
Apr., 2013
No World’s Harmony
Harmony cannot be brought to the world
By any messiah or god incarnates
As one eats the other for one’s living
Without mercy, and God is a witness.
Apr., 2013
The Role Of Instincts
Victory is sweet; sweeter is revenge.
Relief is sweet; sweeter is escape.
Gain is sweet; sweeter is lottery.
Sex is sweet; sweeter is adultery.
Liberty scores over freedom.
Selfishness scores over justice.
Jealousy scores over affection.
Bribery scores over honesty.
Instincts disobey conscience
Whenever it finds the convenience.
Apr., 2013
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Brain’s Master
Man’s brain possesses
Manas, the mind,
Buddhi, the intellect,
Chitta, the subconscious,
Ahankara, the egoism.
Manas faces choices,
Buddhi makes selection,
Chitta does scrutiny
And ahankara approves or vetoes
Ahankara is the fiber,
Giving stiffness too life
In the form of selfishness,
The essence of existence.
Apr., 2013
Reliefs And Burdens
A death is a loss and a relief too.
A birth is a gain and a burden too.
A thing comes to you and with a price tag.
A thing goes from you and with a load too.
When you own a car, it would own your care.
Be light to loss and gain on their visits.
Apr., 2013
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My Death Is My Loss.
My death is a loss
Only to me,
And not to any.
My death is a pain
Only to me,
And not to any.
My death is my fear,
Not anyone’s;
It gives me more pain.
I have to face it.
It is one’s fate.
I fear pain to die.
Apr., 2013
Man And Other Mammals
Man invented Time and bought restlessness.
Man invented God and brought ignorance.
Man devised Money and forgot humanism.
Unlike other mammals, he has more fears.
Apr., 2013
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The False Necessity
Bras are a false necessity.
A recent study has found it.
Denied gravity by the bra,
Breasts get no escapes from sagging.
Rather, they are eager to sag.
No anatomical gain comes.
Yet bras are a necessity
To man’s eyes trained in that bracket.
Gods are a false necessity;
Theories are there to confirm it,
The mindset cannot be altered.
Gods will stand a necessity
To humans’ mind tamed in that order.
Apr., 2013
Money Goes And Comes.
The sea is robbed of water by the clouds.
The sea gets water from rivers in turn.
The clouds and the rivers are same to it.
Let takers and givers be same to you.
May, 2013
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Intentions and results
Between provocation
And retaliation
There’s no correlation.
It’s like a seed and tree.
A spark of fire can spread
To destroy a forest.
A rebuke thrown at one
Can lead to a suicide.
Reaction can go high.
Retaliation is still more.
Repercussion might be
More than perceivable.
The affected are upset
With the attacks received,
For their intended ends
Are not the resultant ends.
Apr., 2013
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Are You Loyal To God?
A theft is not a theft
If man commits it
On plants and animals.
It’s not a robbery
When it is employed
On plants and animals.
A kill is not a kill
If it is inflicted
On plants and animals.
Thefts, robberies and kills l
Are so among humans,
All religions profess.
You cannot please the God
By harming other lives,
Which too are His products.
You cannot lead a life
Without these, and with these
You aren’t loyal to Him.
May, 2013
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The Leftover Get Over.
Being harmless, helpless or innocent
Or being weaklings, disabled or old
Will generate pity in others’ hearts.
Pity is translated to love and concern.
The leftover, thus, get over their ills.
While pity enters, jealousy exits
May, 2013
For a long life
You may water;
You may manure;
You may spray
And guard a tree.
A storm may blow
And fell it down.
A good health is
Not a long life.
May, 2013
Seniority is not counted.
The first come is the first to go;
It is retirement.
The last come is the first to go;
It is retrenchment.
No such rules are for births and deaths.
It is dismissal.
May, 2013
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Distances Hide.
A stone statue looks smooth
When seen at a distance,
With its spores out of sight.
Great men keep distances.
May, 2013
Fate And God
What happens is the fate;
How can you alter it?
What is feared is the God;
How can you avoid Him?
May, 2013
Temples Are Empty.
Visitors are sinners
Or beggars of favours.
Inmates are workers
With vested interests.
Fed up with those loveless,
Gods went out of their shrines
To find love of others
Who mind their business.
May, 2013
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Friend Turned Foes
Two friend turned foes are more hostile,
With the stored bitterness finding its way.
Two foe turned friends are more benign,
With the stored sweetness leaking its way.
May, 2013
Fearfulness Moves Up And Down.
Fearfulness manifests in friendliness.
Fearfulness manifests in spitefulness.
Fearfulness is like temperature
That can show plus and minus Celsius
May, 2013
The Diseased Have No Loss.
The contents cast, the can goes empty.
A balloon burst, is the balloon empty?
Both gone, neither is loss to the other.
It occurs when a death takes place,
With no loss to the body or life.
May, 2013
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Evaluate Friendship.
Better are foes than faithless friends,
Deaths
than terminal illness,
Blows than contempt and censures
Than tributes to the worthless ones.
[Based on a Tamil four line poem,Naladiayar; 200AD, under the head,Friendship, of Jain religion.]
May, 2013
Exercise The Ego.
To manage is the exercise of ego.
It gives ego a sense of wellbeing.
It is at its best in play and fine arts;
Also at work done with an interest;
May, 2013
The Upper Class Purity
If there did break a racial war
Where the white and the black live,
Which side would the mixed race lean on?
The black only will admit them.
May, 2013
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No Messiah Can
The level of evil can be
Brought down to that of certain time
If the population is also
Cut down to that of that time.
23.05.2013
Perception Is Fluid.
Contents and conveyance
Of an object perceived
And knowledge and intellect
Of a person perceiving
Are the four factors that
Together contribute
The resultant perception,
Which is subject to change
As factors are variable
Due to space and time.
26.05.2013
Veneration And Reverence
We venerate certain places;
We revere certain people.
Mecca isn’t same to non-Muslims.
So is Jesus to non-Christians.
Things are made great by the condition.
May, 2013
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Belief Is Taken As Truth.
The earth is flat- once held as true.
The sun revolves- once held as true.
Many things now we hold as true
May later turn to be false.
What I believe is true, though not.
What I disbelieve is false, though not.
May, 2013
Ego Is The Cause.
Be it an emperor or a messiah.
Both are driven by the same impetus:
Pleasure in expression of their self-worth.
Both are ruthless in their endeavor.
Both are merciless against adversaries.
Next only come their mission and visions.
May, 2013
Are We At Peace?
To learn running faster is the cheetah’s concern.
To learn running faster is the deer’s concern.
Their existences are linked to that feat.
They have no separate gods to rescue them.
Fear is the complex that cripples all lives.
We delude ourselves that we are at peace.
June, 2013
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Kill ‘ I’.
‘I’ is high in all God’s utterances.
‘I’ is high in all messages uttered
By sons of God, messiahs and prophets.
They want us to kill our ‘I’ to reach God.
June, 2013
Life Has No Timetable.
When it starts, it will be its starting time.
When it halts, it will be its reaching time.
In that case, it runs neither fast nor late.
Like this is the life journey, unscheduled.
July, 2013
Do The Masters Deserve?
A farmer is a planter and a grower.
He is a reaper too.
A shepherd is a breeder and a keeper.
He is a butcher too.
The God is a creator and a provider.
He’s a terminator too.
Must the crop, the sheep and man show their love
To their respective masters?
July, 2013
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Delay Wipes Not The Scar.
The scar caused by a denial
Is not removed by its supply.
Things given not wholeheartedly
Will be acknowledged halfheartedly.
July, 2013
The True Atheist
Saying that God does not exist
Will not make you an atheist.
You must’ve courage to face the world
Without fear for the unknown.
Absence of fear for the God
Will not make you an atheist.
Absence of fear for Satan
Must also in you follow suit.
July, 2013
Independence
I depend on you and you do on me.
I depend on him, who is, on someone.
No one is independent of others.
A chain of dependence is the law of nature.
It’s not that one is fully dependent
Or fully independent in existence.
Interdependence is the rule of the game,
Be it life, planets or the galaxy.
Aug., 2013
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The Mouth Leads To The Anus.
Every mouth will end with an anus.
Every anus is led by a mouth.
To expect a mouth without an anus
Is to expect only advantage from one.
Aug., .2103
No Present Or Centre
Time has the past and the future.
There is no present in between.
Space has the left and the right but
There is no centre in between.
The middle is further divisible.
Aug., 2013
Credits To Water
Water falls in waterfalls.
Water runs in all rivers.
The cause is the gravity.
Credits go to the water.
Aug., 2013
Wastes
Food wasted by humans
Is used by animals,
Whose waste is used by plants.
Nothing will be wasted.
Aug., 2013
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The Future Is Coloured.
The past is mud; the future is a spring.
With past in mind, we step into future.
With mud on legs, we step into the spring.
Don’t blame future and springs for their colour.
Aug., 2013
Anxieties
The anxious mother is
The cautious devil.
The anxious husband is
The possessive demon or
The suspicious evil.
Anxiety in excess
Is a peril to the owners.
Aug., 2013
Life Floats In Illusion.
The moon looks bigger than any planet.
The bomb explodes harder than a thunder.
One’s eyes deceive and one’s ears deceive.
Ignorance believes; innocence accepts.
Sep., 2013
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The World Of Jain
The whole world consists of two entities:
Life and Non-life; both are independent.
Life is the state of pure consciousness.
Non-life is of motion, rest, space, time and
Gross matter, the five being infinite.
Life through Non-life forms all living organisms.
The law of cause and effect is in force.
Injuries breed injuries; abstain from them.
Non-injury is the spirit of Jainism,
Which does not, hence, envisage any God.
Sep., .2013
Anger And Dream
Anger is a reaction;
Dream is a reflection.
Irritations give anger;
Activations [of brain] give dreams.
Anger and dreams are respondents
No initiative from their parts;
Anger and dream need no actions.
They, when left, die them
selves.
Sep., 2013.
Nights Bring Days.
Nights I passed had brought me
As many days before.
Partings I suffered too
Had as many courtships.Sep., 2013
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Common Nouns
A cow does not know how people call her.
A crow does not know how people call him.
So is the case for all things people named.
What about all gods named in mythologies?
Sep., 2013
The Protector And The Predator
One is the protector
And the other, a predator
For each living body.
There is a constant fight
Between them on it.
The protector wins battles
And the predator, the war.
Sep., 2013
Life Is Amoral.
Survival demands killings
For food and securities.
Morals and codes drawn by men
Are out of this venue.
Sep., 2013
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Non-rebirth Is Bliss
Most religions profess the bliss
In the form of getting no rebirth,
Which we realize when we die.
No one wants to be born again
For its inherent live struggles
And no guarantee of its standard.
Sep., 2013
The Unsung Heroes
It is not that the best seeds got sown.
It’s not that the best sperms got ovum.
Many worthy men are dead unsung.
Don’t sing men who managed to be great.
Sep., 2013
Do It That Would Die.
The name you earn will not stand forever.
The print you make will not stay forever.
Knowing this, you must yet strive to do good.
Don’t we try to live though death is certain?