The meaning of pain

You could choose the middle path
Which is calm
Or the highs and the lows
Happiness and pain
After pain comes happiness
And after happiness pain
Sometimes pain is given ,and
You opt for suffering
Without resisting
Thats the path of the greats
The pathway to bliss
It could be that pain was given
To bring you bliss!

Song

I was all alone for a long long time
I went into a trance
Floated up to a high high sky
My ringlets were played with
By musical notes
Which were breezing all around
Some of them entered my veins
Floated to my heart,
And hid there,I could feel them
Hours passed and I woke up
With a song on my lips,
A lovely, lovely song!

Truth

When I speak only truth
What I speak becomes true
My word materialises....
Into reality.
I could make it happen
By utterance
So I keep silent....
In the midst of din!


(sorry about the earlier version with mistakes)

Word

One day I sent out a word
That travelled far
Did the rounds
Was listened to
By the universe
And then it became true....
 

Canvas

The thought free mind Is an empty canvas
Where God paints his murals....

Free

When my mind was free of thoughts
The world came to my feet

Equal

For a misty hill, there's a misty valley
For an up , theres a down
For a smile ,there's a sob
For black ,there's white
For every action,
An equal and opposite reaction.

Important things

Important things never happen easily
Or by chance
There's the learning peroid
Then the waiting period
And then when you start doing
The stumbling blocks
The hurts
Thoughts of retreat
But you keep going,and then....
Success

Harp

One day I listened
To the harp that played inside
This happened when there was no one
By my side
Walking through din and sound
That were invariably loud
I got headaches
And one day I listened to the harp
That played inside
Just for me,and by me

Happy

l make myself happy
I make you happy
The process goes on
And everyone is happy...
My happiness cannot hurt anyone
(Rather, the fragrance spreads)
But my sadness can...
Darken your aura...
I'm happy !

Boat

You are the calm waters
On which I row my boat
I had no thought of sailing
But the water was clear and deep
With little ripples at the top
I wanted to glide,flow along
Feeling the cool,the breeze
The summer was hot .....

Search

I did not find love
So I studied awareness;
So much so that I,
Lost myself in the quest
When I lost myself I found love....

Growth

The body grows
The brain grows
Education grows
Awareness grows
Love grows
Then you grow beyond love...

Relativity

Matter is energy,and
Energy matter
E equals Mc squared
When the body is burnt
Energy is released,
A vast amount
But it is just a fraction of the total;
Energy became matter
In the big bang
Science and spirit...
Two sides of the coin!

Ego

The skin that contains an ego..
Cannot see beyond itself
When the ego is shed
Like snakes do
I can see a new me,
And everything else !

Reality

                     
Glimpses of the infinite
In the finite
Every day every night
If our  minds are tuned right;
In a dewdrop you can see the world
In your eyes ,the future and the past
In the pupil(window of the eye)
You can see the doorway to a vast inner world
Replica of the outer world !


 
   

Black and white

Pleasure is black
Bliss is white
Pleasure vanishes
Bliss lasts
Pleasure fails
Bliss is success
From black to white
Extends a long and difficult road
You could go forward
Or go back... Until later

Apple

Take an apple
Cut it into two
Give one half to your friend
Watch him eat it
The stars in the eyes
The smile on the lips
The sweetness of the apple
That's love.

Kill

Circumstances kill love
People kill love
Love suicides
Well,most of the time!

It's difficult

For fear of getting hurt
I denied love
Then when I got love,I thought
It's difficult...
It's easier to let go,
Go back to sleeping....

God's handiwork

When God was in an interested mood
He made men ,women,birds and animals
He was happy with his handiwork
And wanted his 'children' to be happy
He said(like a father sending the kids on a picnic)
Children ,I shall send you to a beautiful place
I have made specially for you;
Why ,father?
I want you all to enjoy yourselves,be happy;
What about our food father?
Food and drink,and shelter,the best shall be provided;
What will we do there, father?
See and hear, smell and touch ,
Beauty of every kind,
But take care not to damage things!
What if someone takes something for himself?
That won't do,you can experience ,enjoy,but leave it as it is!
What if someone takes another's share?
That would be senseless
Isn't there enough for all,and more?
Is there a purpose for sending us father?
Nothing,my dear little children
Just so that you may enjoy
And then come back to your father!

Wind

I am the wind
Open the doors and let me in
Do not block my way
For I can be me, only when I'm free
Let me in,to delight you
I can tiptoe and twirl
Or rush in and swirl
And make you feel happy
Because I always give
Desire takes ,love gives
I'm on the streets ,with a song on my lips
I'm dancing away,
You can watch me sway
In and out ,far and near
But only if your doors are open wide !

Some thoughts in 'bloody days'

It's raining blood
The earth is wet
Weeping torrents
The eyes will dry
The face is set...
In grief...


The colour of blood
Is orange or red!


Freedom is fragrance
But the jasmine heads are slain
And then trampled upon
By terrorists...


Promises are made to be broken
Slender necks are fated to be cut...


Why don't we start holding hands?
Why don't we open the windows of our minds?
They've been closed for so long...
Are we so heartless as to play nonchalantly
With lives?


The flags are all red
Clothing the bodies that have bled!


In the days of Maveli
There was equality and liberty
Or so they say...
People loved truth
And so there was happiness
Like the different musical notes
That play in harmony
But now rage flares
As egos burn
Smoke stinks of burning flesh
We need to bring the fragrance of love
Back into the gardens of our country...

Ordinary

The ordinary life
Is so beautiful
When you have someone
To share it with!

Bliss

When you get love
You live an ordinary life in bliss
When you don't.....
You have to scale great heights
(To the Himalayan caves)
To get bliss!

Learning

Learning is slow
Takes years or lives
You could not learn at all
(Take things easy)
Or learn with a will
The faster you learn
The earlier you will reach your goal
That of being where you belong
But before that what is wrongly learnt
Has to be unlearnt
By will or by cosmic will. ...

My journey

A person should have a will at the helm
My dad did ,and my mom
But not me,until I was old
I floated on the waves
Going with the wind
Forgot to build my own raft
Or never thought of it
I did not have a decision
It was always someone else's
Till the day I became wise!

hate

Hate is more powerful than love
Only those who love can hate
While love is for days
Hate is for lives
It's so easy to hate
Gives you satisfaction
But difficult to love
Because love has a price
A heavy price..! 

Writing

I asked my niece ,an eight year old
How do you create......poetry?
She said...All you do is
Run out into the open.....
Look up....
And ideas come from the sky
Straight into your head.....
And you start doing poetry....!

Candle

Pure feeling burns like a candle flame
Destroying it's very root
With its heat....

Sounds Words

Sound waves spread in circles
Ever increasing
Encompassing everyone in it's radius
The sounds that you make ......
The words,they never die....
They go further and further away but exist
Without dying
As proof of you......! 

Uphill

Once I went to visit the abode of the Godess
You have to trek uphill they said
By foot....
Fine....I said...
And took up the walking stick.. .
One hill lead to the next, and the next...
It was not over yet.....
Two more to go....
Sweat poured it's showers ...
The mind said.....why not go back?
But the aching legs persisted. ....
The last lap ......
Finally up there....
It was beautiful!Joy!

At the top

I'll take you to the heights
Someone said
I said yes.......
It is beautiful
But lonely at the top
Everything below....

Sacrifice

To be a song
I had to sacrifice myself
At the altar of society
When it destroyed my body
And my mind
I became pure song

Pure bliss

A pure song is pure bliss
It uplifts the listener to heights...
In seconds.....
But the Himalayan trek.....
Of the singer took a lifetime....

Understanding

To understand a song
You needn't know the classics
You needn't even sing....
Or read or write.....
You just need to have a heart!
That's the beauty of music!

Transcending

I thought for days and months
About transcending
And then one day I did
And was surrounded by Raagas.....

How

The weeping eyes never did read
A musical note..
Nor did the lips
Get trained in classics...
The sigh of an aching soul
Wove itself into a Raaga.......!

The cry

The cry of a helpless soul
Is a certain musical note...
And not any other...
That note comes out...
Only when you cry...
And not in any other way....
When one is aware,the note gets captured ,
In music, in raaga..

Hot

When the feet are standing on hot coals
You have to jump
Up and up and up.....
Thus you are lifted to the heavens
Where only music reigns

The raaga world

Pain became a psychotropic drug
Which lifted me up and up
Into the heavens
When I opened my eyes
I was amidst raagas
Music ....music.....

Music

One day I felt so much
That I became a sob
That was breathed into a bamboo tube
And thus was born music

Angels

One day I died
And was brought back to life
At that time I went through clouds
Travelled with angels
Two of them came back with me
And are now my guardians....!

Energy

A human
Could start shining
And shining ...and shining
Until he /she becomes pure energy!

Breath

I must know
That I extend to the next
And the next
And the next .....
Through pure breath
My skin is not the boundary
Never.......

Ego

The skin that contains an ego....
When you are locked inside a locker
How can you see
Or hear or feel....?

Body

The mass that is body
When certain stars shine
The breath enters it
And makes it alive

Atheist

The atheist says
There is no God
The breath with which
He says these words
That is God

Creations

The creation of a human being
The most ordinary thing
And the most miraculous
All artistic creations
Spring forth from the same well
The kundalini.....

The big bang

The cosmic intelligence
With its infinite potential
The lord....
Was bored enough
To create the big bang
Om....its the big bang in harmony
In tune...
Like a little child all alone
Dresses itself in various costumes
For its own enjoyment
The lord just did it......

Creation

The lords creation
The whole universe
Through a big bang
Or a whisper
An Om.....

Good things

I will talk only about the good things
The rest is ordinary
What anyone could experience....
Love between man and woman
(The best kind)
Blooms one day ,and dies
But not in creative people
They keep it alive with the ventilator!

creativity

creativity
I discovered creativity
When a sun rose on the horizon
The sun rose ...the lotus bloomed...
That was cliche, but still....

speak to me

I'm listening
speak to me
yesterday you spoke to me
through an unknown face
but the message was clear
It's possible for you to speak
Through a rustle of the leaves
Awhistle of the wind,or
A lizard's call....