We come here as a seemingly blank paper. From then on, whatever situations we are in or the people we meet are already ordained, as it were, by our previous actions. This is so to help us finish the unfinished business. Of course we end up doing several new things and the cycle begins all over again. Infinite loop, no? Getting back to where I was, we meet only select people in our lifetime and none else. Rest of the people on the planet don't matter. So everyone has this circles and loops in which they are constantly adding and subtracting people from. Everyone we meet is part of the puzzle, fitting in at correct time and place on the jigsaw of our life. Each person is a clue, sent for a specific purpose. No crossing of paths an accident, no acquaintance an accident. Few we leave on the dusty roads and by-lanes, few meant for casual stroll in the park and a few meant to walk along till the end. We also roam places where we have unfinished business, as it were. Understand: even simple, routine tasks have a deep significance-we just ignore them and continue to live in abstraction. You eat food prepared by your mom/wife your entire life-for every moment your soul was appeased, you owe it to them...you owe it to the farmer who has satisfied your hunger pangs. While enjoying the beauty of nature..you owe it to the butterfly, to the birds scattering the pollen.While dressing, you owe it to the weavers and the silk worms. While wearing those shoes, you owe it to the tanner, the animal whose hide went into its preparation, and of course the sin involved in torturing the animal for its skin. While you go through deeply disturbing times, you owe it to the musician who has provided you comfort through his/her music.
Throughout life, you meet few people but there are people you haven't even met who are helping you every moment of your life..someone somewhere had do build that road, make those shoes, reap that harvest, grow those tea leaves and coffee beans, make those handsets, make that technology you are using,make that movie you enjoy.. Thus goes on life on the planet, through complex interactions at every level...sustaining itself through the give and take of actions...
It goes without saying you have to be very careful of your every action and thought for not getting into the infinite loop. Since, every thought of yours is projected into the space and it travels through time and meets the object at a later time and you have to reap the consequences of that thought.
Friday, November 18, 2011
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Tat tvam asi
This ain't self-denial nor fleeing
This ain't a vindication nor conscience-freeing
For now does the heart tear as intellect derides
How could you go after the apples of Hesperides?
I'am the cause and I'am the effect
Forever trapped in the noose so perfect
This gut-wrenching loneliness
Ripping, killing and torturing as a nemesis
Come yonder, Gods' of love all!
Flood my heart with love immortal!
That shall purge the aching soul
And make it pure and whole
For the lifeless being roams
Yet without voice it moans
Lets enjoy the bliss eternal
Drinking the elixir from the vial
'ts amazing how the soul's tricked
Being an end in itself always tripped
Who can love thee more than thou
That thou art that, you must know
Till then shall the misery bind
And never shall the release you find.
This ain't a vindication nor conscience-freeing
For now does the heart tear as intellect derides
How could you go after the apples of Hesperides?
I'am the cause and I'am the effect
Forever trapped in the noose so perfect
This gut-wrenching loneliness
Ripping, killing and torturing as a nemesis
Come yonder, Gods' of love all!
Flood my heart with love immortal!
That shall purge the aching soul
And make it pure and whole
For the lifeless being roams
Yet without voice it moans
Lets enjoy the bliss eternal
Drinking the elixir from the vial
'ts amazing how the soul's tricked
Being an end in itself always tripped
Who can love thee more than thou
That thou art that, you must know
Till then shall the misery bind
And never shall the release you find.
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