Jun 2020
THE GOOD, BAD, AND THE NAKED TRUTH!
I have often wondered why, bad things happen
to the good,
And good things happen to the bad?
It is also often said that God takes away the
good folks from this world earlier,
While letting the bad ones to stay and suffer!
But given a choice, all of us would certainly want
to live longer, and also fight out the Chinese
Corona!
Some say that our life’s happenings had been
programmed earlier,
Based on the Hindu theory of individual Karma!
But the atheist and the agnostics, speak of these
as mere random happenings!
Yet some intellectuals also think, that this concept
of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ are merely relative things.
As one man’s meat becomes poison for the other,
- among other things!
Now to get rid of these confusing thoughts and free
my mind,
I feel it is always better to err on the positive side,
And perform actions and deeds which are right.
But at the same time I would love to sing with the
American poet Philip Appleman, who wrote these
great immortal lines;-
“ O Karma, Dharma, pudding and pie,
Gimme a break before I die;
Grant me wisdom, will, and grit,
Purity, probity, pluck and grit.
Trustworthy, helpful, friendly, kind,
Gimme great abs and a steel-trap mind.
And forgive, Ye Gods, some humble advice -
These little blessings would suffice,
To beget an earthly paradise :
Make the bad people good,
And the good people nice.
And before our World goes over the brink,
Teach the believers how to Think!”
-Raj Nandy, New Delhi.
NOTES: Philip Appleman was born in Indiana in 1926, and served in the US Army. He has displayed greater foresight & understanding than most of our narrow minded politicians and religious leaders! May God bless his soul!
I have often wondered why, bad things happen
to the good,
And good things happen to the bad?
It is also often said that God takes away the
good folks from this world earlier,
While letting the bad ones to stay and suffer!
But given a choice, all of us would certainly want
to live longer, and also fight out the Chinese
Corona!
Some say that our life’s happenings had been
programmed earlier,
Based on the Hindu theory of individual Karma!
But the atheist and the agnostics, speak of these
as mere random happenings!
Yet some intellectuals also think, that this concept
of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ are merely relative things.
As one man’s meat becomes poison for the other,
- among other things!
Now to get rid of these confusing thoughts and free
my mind,
I feel it is always better to err on the positive side,
And perform actions and deeds which are right.
But at the same time I would love to sing with the
American poet Philip Appleman, who wrote these
great immortal lines;-
“ O Karma, Dharma, pudding and pie,
Gimme a break before I die;
Grant me wisdom, will, and grit,
Purity, probity, pluck and grit.
Trustworthy, helpful, friendly, kind,
Gimme great abs and a steel-trap mind.
And forgive, Ye Gods, some humble advice -
These little blessings would suffice,
To beget an earthly paradise :
Make the bad people good,
And the good people nice.
And before our World goes over the brink,
Teach the believers how to Think!”
-Raj Nandy, New Delhi.
NOTES: Philip Appleman was born in Indiana in 1926, and served in the US Army. He has displayed greater foresight & understanding than most of our narrow minded politicians and religious leaders! May God bless his soul!
