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"sanskrit" poems
To speak all these languages: Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Chhattisgarhi, Dogri , Garo - Oh, to be able to tongue, "Love" in Gajarati, Hini, Kannada, Kashmiri, Khasi, Kokborok, Konkani - Or lip, "Desire" in Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Mizo, Nepali - Or whisper, "Good night, Dear" in Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Santali, Sindhi, Telugu, Tamil, or Urdu.
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Jan 17, 2011
Jan 17, 2011 at 10:49 PM UTC
To speak all these languages
Shamans, in an attempt to find a word that all cultures could understand, to represent, universally, the subject; married the languages by root. Each attribute or thing that the beast is said to do, have or have power to do or over is found as a definition in a language of the individual roots. Take Sanskrit for instance. "Dra," is "water and combine it with Sumerian, "Gun, Gon," and you get a "water-born," beast who "writhes, twists or wraps around," which is the Ouroboros Serpent as shown in ancient images. The secret to all ancient myth or religion is in interpretation of language into foreign languages over time. And, yes, it is very creative, appears complex due to time but is just humans trying to describe observable nature. None of it is meant to be taken literally unless you literally live six thousand years ago and speak in an ancient tongue. Addendum * Keltic, "Con, Kon," makes the Dragon, "All-knowing." * And we know from Plato that Greeks stole their root words from the Celts. Plato's own words in, 'The Cratylus.'
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Feb 9, 2017
Feb 9, 2017 at 5:23 PM UTC
DRA KONdefɪɴed
A melancholy ***** we came to adore in mournful tone, finish the tale abruptly and sob, uncontrollably; "Memories of my melancholy ****** including "Love in the times of cholera" are now part of our folklore, this land of cashew groves and banana plantations in  Indian landscape, far far away from Latin American shores. Her lascivious days are over death visits the house of love, blood splattered and a haunt of dark happenings, that begets children with tails, shame, honor and secrets creep out of manuscripts. Gabo is no more, no more"Living to tell the tale" the Part Two, promised before. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, after three false starts goes to his final abode for rest, now. A coded manuscript, written in in classical Sanskrit, (the language of all divine texts of Indian sages of yore) scripted by the mysterious gypsy,Melquiades predicts the wipe out of Buendia clan of five generations Torrential rain and deluge engulf Macondo, ends "One hundred years of solitude". Gabo you point towards east what is the answer to the conundrum of Buendias? In Mexico city they were preparing to take  Gabo to his last ride to the origin of all magical realism he'd return In a land far away, yet exactly the same landscape as Latin Americas we grieve his death as that of one of our own Gabo, in past thirty years, you mysteriously taught us to discern the magical realism of cosmos
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Apr 19, 2014
Apr 19, 2014 at 12:35 PM UTC
Adieu, dear Gabo, now we'll see your magical realism in cosmic wonders
I love my country: India , but I hate many of its rulers, as they speak for the poor and act for tycoons bellicose, and- Diversity sighs in armed Unity; The selfish corrupted in unity March ahead on graves crafty. I love my country: India , but August fifteenth : with freedom, opened all devilish forces out of Hell to fell all virtues. Grim faced Buddha smiles Like a nuclear Phantom ,his tears drip on tomb of Peace. No white dove sits on dome It bleeds in the lap of Buddha. If birth is the cause of gloom. who stops one from bloom? Dearth of berth clamour for Death of birth at the womb. I love my country: India , but Souls are free on lovely Earth Lay bodies strain to survive. A nominal word equanimity Gushes in landslide infirmity. Service becomes self –service, In black ink sleeps Socialism. Fear Neurosis like King Kamsa Keeps Liberty behind the bars. Healthy, wealthy Bharat Matha Groans in labour room for Santi. Note: 1). August fifteenth= 15 August 1947 when India became free from Briton. 2).Buddha=Gutham Buddha(Prince Sidhardha) who established Buddhism.3).Kamsa= The mythological character , uncle of Lord Krishna who chained even his sister Devaki out of the fear psychosis. 4),Bharat Matha= Indians consider Bharat/India as their Mother(Matha)-so it is Mother land not Fatherland for them .Santi/Shanti=a Sanskrit word used in Vedas and Upanishads of India which means Peace or Islam.
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Aug 13, 2013
Aug 13, 2013 at 10:08 AM UTC
I love my country: India, but
"The Druids taught their disciples many things about nature and the perfections of God, and that, there was only one God, the Creator of heaven and earth. One name, under which they worshiped him, was Esus or Hesus (“He," in Celtic meaning, "Lord," ) or Harits which is their name for Horus..." ~Julius Caesar from [Signs and Symbols of Primordial Man, by Albert Churchward circa 1912] [Page 186] "He,"  -meaning, "Lord," and "Sus," being the most ancient Minoan form of, "Zeus," therefore, "Jesus," means in Celtic and Greek; "Lord Zeus." The word "Harits," being Sanskrit identical to, "Charits," and "Marits, Maruts," a mythical epithet for Aryas, or Aryans so the usage of it for his name means it represents him as being Aryan.   Jesus as an Aryan. *If You can prove it, prove it wrong, then do so here or do so in song. If you can also, do it in verse, then truly you'll deserve a purse. I do not believe there will ever be, on this point, ...a mortal man to challenge me!* Good Luck
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Dec 24, 2016
Dec 24, 2016 at 5:08 PM UTC
Caesar's Curious Quote;
Nothing can influence A Man Stronger Than a Woman It's a difference Through yin That causes Yang to become Whole It's like the beast Crawling towards The beauty She need not Use force Or violence To get the animal To draw closer Her prescence - A flower So sweet Anything with a nose Wants to inhale The influence of A woman Is a journey inward Where the flow Comes in I could show you where You begin Where it begins - In the formation Of a wave curling To form An infuriating Break Soaring through the wind She gets him Contemplative Her words Sound like Sanskrit She knows what he needs Beyond what his ego Believes And maybe gentle Or crying Should not be forbidden The influence of women A females touch delicious A Man's counterpart And producer of souls The answer to family The true love gaze An access to divinity The missing ingredient Of the recipe A Woman's influence On a man Is the way the world Transitions
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Nov 13, 2014
Nov 13, 2014 at 1:34 AM UTC
The Sacred Feminine
It's been long said in ancient Sanskrit texts, "Yatha twam karasi, Tatha twam bhogasi." This roughly translates as 'As you sow, so you reap.' This is true to the core but it's neither unconditional nor is it surely possible for you or me to be happy tomorrow even if we do good today. You might also have observed that sometimes you don't get exactly what you desired and yearned for when putting all your efforts. I will explain in the text that follows. I am not Superman or a Godman blessed with super powers. I just believe in humanitarian virtues of course for all my life. And I don't despise the idea of theism. As some other people among the readers and their respective circles even I tame the same ideology about God having created the universe and then let us take charge. I don't get involved in worshipping the creator, but I do thank that creator for having created us all. But how do I keep myself away from the various types of evils? The answer lies within. What I identify as evil or deleterious to anyone or anything else, I don't do that and I totally despise all of it. Doing so I am aware that what I have been taking to and what I should get into. Whether it's my career or my love life, it almost totally depends on me and my Karma. The remaining few bits also depend on time and third parties who can affect my life greatly or maybe a little. I don't know about what they quote other "Spiritual" people about and I feel that each of us can have our own views about time. I don't feel the urge to read about spiritual issues written by some well-publicised so called "Spiritual Gurus or Dharmatmas" who talk about out of the body experience. The next time you think about some problem posed to you, your relative or a close friend, do try the following: Just get out of your own mindset, think about the issue from a neutral point of view with your sixth sense (common sense) in right place. You're bound to find out the best way for solving it; let it be life or let it be any matter related to it.
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Nov 12, 2013
Nov 12, 2013 at 4:27 AM UTC
"As You Sow, So You Reap" Theory Revisited
It's been long said in ancient Sanskrit texts, "Yatha twam karasi, Tatha twam bhogasi." This roughly translates as 'As you sow, so you reap.' This is true to the core but it's neither unconditional nor is it surely possible for you or me to be happy tomorrow even if we do good today. You might also have observed that sometimes you don't get exactly what you desired and yearned for when putting all your efforts. I will explain in the text that follows. I am not Superman or a Godman blessed with super powers. I just believe in humanitarian virtues of course for all my life. And I don't despise the idea of theism. As some other people among the readers and their respective circles even I tame the same ideology about God having created the universe and then let us take charge. I don't get involved in worshipping the creator, but I do thank that creator for having created us all. But how do I keep myself away from the various types of evils? The answer lies within. What I identify as evil or deleterious to anyone or anything else, I don't do that and I totally despise all of it. Doing so I am aware that what I have been taking to and what I should get into. Whether it's my career or my love life, it almost totally depends on me and my Karma. The remaining few bits also depend on time and third parties who can affect my life greatly or maybe a little. I don't know about what they quote other "Spiritual" people about and I feel that each of us can have our own views about time. I don't feel the urge to read about spiritual issues written by some well-publicised so called "Spiritual Gurus or Dharmatmas" who talk about out of the body experience. The next time you think about some problem posed to you, your relative or a close friend, do try the following: Just get out of your own mindset, think about the issue from a neutral point of view with your sixth sense (common sense) in right place. You're bound to find out the best way for solving it; let it be life or let it be any matter related to it.
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A Letter To My Aunt Discussing The Correct Approach To Modern Poetry To you, my aunt, who would explore The literary Chankley Bore, The paths are hard, for you are not A literary Hottentot But just a kind and cultured dame Who knows not Eliot (to her shame). Fie on you, aunt, that you should see No genius in David G., No elemental form and sound In T.S.E. and Ezra Pound. Fie on you, aunt! I'll show you how To elevate your middle brow, And how to scale and see the sights From modernist Parnassian heights. First buy a hat, no Paris model But one the Swiss wear when they yodel, A bowler thing with one or two Feathers to conceal the view; And then in sandals walk the street (All modern painters use their feet For painting, on their canvas strips, Their wives or mothers, minus hips). Perhaps it would be best if you Created something very new, A ***** novel done in Erse Or written backwards in Welsh verse, Or paintings on the backs of vests, Or Sanskrit psalms on lepers' chests. But if this proved imposs-i-ble Perhaps it would be just as well, For you could then write what you please, And modern verse is done with ease. Do not forget that 'limpet' rhymes With 'strumpet' in these troubled times, And commas are the worst of crimes; Few understand the works of Cummings, And few James Joyce's mental slummings, And few young Auden's coded chatter; But then it is the few that matter. Never be lucid, never state, If you would be regarded great, The simplest thought or sentiment, (For thought, we know, is decadent); Never omit such vital words As belly, genitals and -----, For these are things that play a part (And what a part) in all good art. Remember this: each rose is wormy, And every lovely woman's germy; Remember this: that love depends On how the Gallic letter bends; Remember, too, that life is hell And even heaven has a smell Of putrefying angels who Make deadly whoopee in the blue. These things remembered, what can stop A poet going to the top? A final word: before you start The convulsions of your art, Remove your brains, take out your heart; Minus these curses, you can be A genius like David G. Take courage, aunt, and send your stuff To Geoffrey Grigson with my luff, And may I yet live to admire How well your poems light the fire.
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A Letter To My Aunt
A Letter To My Aunt Discussing The Correct Approach To Modern Poetry To you, my aunt, who would explore The literary Chankley Bore, The paths are hard, for you are not A literary Hottentot But just a kind and cultured dame Who knows not Eliot (to her shame). Fie on you, aunt, that you should see No genius in David G., No elemental form and sound In T.S.E. and Ezra Pound. Fie on you, aunt! I'll show you how To elevate your middle brow, And how to scale and see the sights From modernist Parnassian heights. First buy a hat, no Paris model But one the Swiss wear when they yodel, A bowler thing with one or two Feathers to conceal the view; And then in sandals walk the street (All modern painters use their feet For painting, on their canvas strips, Their wives or mothers, minus hips). Perhaps it would be best if you Created something very new, A ***** novel done in Erse Or written backwards in Welsh verse, Or paintings on the backs of vests, Or Sanskrit psalms on lepers' chests. But if this proved imposs-i-ble Perhaps it would be just as well, For you could then write what you please, And modern verse is done with ease. Do not forget that 'limpet' rhymes With 'strumpet' in these troubled times, And commas are the worst of crimes; Few understand the works of Cummings, And few James Joyce's mental slummings, And few young Auden's coded chatter; But then it is the few that matter. Never be lucid, never state, If you would be regarded great, The simplest thought or sentiment, (For thought, we know, is decadent); Never omit such vital words As belly, genitals and -----, For these are things that play a part (And what a part) in all good art. Remember this: each rose is wormy, And every lovely woman's germy; Remember this: that love depends On how the Gallic letter bends; Remember, too, that life is hell And even heaven has a smell Of putrefying angels who Make deadly whoopee in the blue. These things remembered, what can stop A poet going to the top? A final word: before you start The convulsions of your art, Remove your brains, take out your heart; Minus these curses, you can be A genius like David G. Take courage, aunt, and send your stuff To Geoffrey Grigson with my luff, And may I yet live to admire How well your poems light the fire.
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Freedom At Kannyakumari “The destiny of India is molded in her class-rooms” Kothari had no confusion; no vision on the fusion- of the East and the West, as Swami Vivekananda’s vision, “The comingling of the East and the West will dawn a new Era”. As tissue culture, transplantation or cloning we Indians imbibe the Western Culture; or as G.M cotton or brinjals,or tomato Indians are produced, transmuted destroying the very indigenous genus for material growth. Ayurveda is preserved not in Sanskrit but in English letters, now ! Followers of Lord Maccaulay as obedient servants, by experiments,bring up Indians only in blood and colour- in every other respects-Europeans (using imperialist - capitalist media); poor sycophants ,for a visa, the Indians: now , turn to the West for light, leaving the bright light under the Urn; cry for a way of progress, safety and food; and beg:once self reliant nations as cells of a body No retrospection or introspection, only putrefaction, hence , no resurrection. On August 15th ,at Kannyakumari beach , beside me, a bare body of a woman(my sister?) lay asleep; I witnessed at the starry cold mid-night: the surging sea spitting frothing snow upon the black rocky ******* protruded, greasy, mossy. bare but fair , ever young at the feet of Bharat-matha. Wet in the salty breeze , from the foul smell of death, I walked and walked searching shelter, but no room for a single son with meagre wealth. The tourism net -workers with the thirst of mosquitoes hummed around me with highly rented room offer- source of tourism exploitation- I bargained, till, morning red balloon rose up in the Eastern horizon cleaving the vapours of the sea, when , thousand tongues chanted Gayathri; then , the locals thronged around the woman on the shore; somebody among them, staring blear eyed as the police jeep and the ambulance arrived , bewailed “O! Gayathri, my darling, O! Gayathri…” Unsoothed. The chanting and the yelling dissolved in the breeze that passed by the Vivekananda rock, afar, south
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Sep 12, 2012
Sep 12, 2012 at 3:50 AM UTC
Freedom to Think
Freedom At Kannyakumari “The destiny of India is molded in her class-rooms” Kothari had no confusion; no vision on the fusion- of the East and the West, as Swami Vivekananda’s vision, “The comingling of the East and the West will dawn a new Era”. As tissue culture, transplantation or cloning we Indians imbibe the Western Culture; or as G.M cotton or brinjals,or tomato Indians are produced, transmuted destroying the very indigenous genus for material growth. Ayurveda is preserved not in Sanskrit but in English letters, now ! Followers of Lord Maccaulay as obedient servants, by experiments,bring up Indians only in blood and colour- in every other respects-Europeans (using imperialist - capitalist media); poor sycophants ,for a visa, the Indians: now , turn to the West for light, leaving the bright light under the Urn; cry for a way of progress, safety and food; and beg:once self reliant nations as cells of a body No retrospection or introspection, only putrefaction, hence , no resurrection. On August 15th ,at Kannyakumari beach , beside me, a bare body of a woman(my sister?) lay asleep; I witnessed at the starry cold mid-night: the surging sea spitting frothing snow upon the black rocky ******* protruded, greasy, mossy. bare but fair , ever young at the feet of Bharat-matha. Wet in the salty breeze , from the foul smell of death, I walked and walked searching shelter, but no room for a single son with meagre wealth. The tourism net -workers with the thirst of mosquitoes hummed around me with highly rented room offer- source of tourism exploitation- I bargained, till, morning red balloon rose up in the Eastern horizon cleaving the vapours of the sea, when , thousand tongues chanted Gayathri; then , the locals thronged around the woman on the shore; somebody among them, staring blear eyed as the police jeep and the ambulance arrived , bewailed “O! Gayathri, my darling, O! Gayathri…” Unsoothed. The chanting and the yelling dissolved in the breeze that passed by the Vivekananda rock, afar, south
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You-will-not-lie, -bed-chambers-long, For I, -am-coming-to-get, YOU! Clawed-through-the-dirt, -up-the-roots, I am here, -come-to-get, YOU! Followed-tree-roots, -that-sweet-smelling-Earth! Here now! -It's time-to-forget-YOUTH. *HALLOWEEN THIS! HALLOWEEN THAT! HALLOWEEN THIS! HALLOWEEN THAT! HALLOWEEN THIS! HALLOWEEN THAT! Aha Ha Ha Ha,  -The Goblins Attack!!* * *Grab-you-and-cover-those-murmuring-cries. Drag-you-away, I have got, YOU! Hungry-I, watering-mouth-glistening-eyes! Bundle-of-joy, I have got, YOU! Jump-down-tunnel-for-you-are-my-prize. Look-at-you-now, my-sweet-tasty-meat-PIE! *HALLOWEEN THIS! HALLOWEEN THAT! HALLOWEEN THIS! HALLOWEEN THAT! HALLOWEEN THIS! HALLOWEEN THAT! Aha Ha Ha Ha,  -The Goblins Attack!!* Addendum: The name appears to be an amalgamation etymologically of roots from Greek, Sanskrit and Sumerian. If, of course, you choose to translate it that way. I assume Plato to be an authority on the Ancient Greek's tendency to combine the words of multiple mythologies sharing similar characters linguistically. The purpose of the hyphenation is to suggest the tempo and speed of the rhyme's cadence. Kalikantzaroi 'The Demon's of Earth'
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Jun 19, 2018
Jun 19, 2018 at 10:09 PM UTC
Kalikantzaroi
In braze, silent breeze of dreams incantations, Shiva arms sway in the forest dark, mushroom, Cloud, lord with fungi, mosses whose clinging Shades of branches, braids deep, forking stories Of old, brooding cauldron Druids, sidles Eastern Spindrift words of Sanskrit spake, told in veined Sacred hands unfound, celestial spines, moulded Green, in the windy monkish statutes of the fallen And single handed claps of the missionary leaves.
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Aug 28, 2013
Aug 28, 2013 at 10:41 PM UTC
Hazel Tree
where is my indian is it in the way i don't use my palms as a medium to transport rice into the back of my mouth is it in the way my face turns gloomy at the sight of spice and curry is it in my skin color that isn't as brown as you need it to be is it in my eyebrows which aren't as bushy as per your requirements is it in the way my tongue twists awkwardly as i say happy diwali is it in the way amma is the most fluent piece of tamil i speak is it in the way i didn't know how to recite the words at my grandpas funeral is it in the way i cannot, for the life of me, name you another tamil movie besides chandramukhi? or is it in the religious classes i took up until age 12 is it in the ramayana epic that i learnt, age 8 is it in the sanskrit bhajans i was made to sing, not knowing what they meant, age 10 is it in knowing that ganesh is the remover of obstacles, brahma, vishnu, shiva - the creator, the preserver, the destroyer is it in the eyeliner drawing a bindi in between my eyes when i head to the temple, to present myself as indian where is my indian is it on a checklist, is there a passing mark? where is my indian please tell me, because i am tired of feeling like a foreigner in my own skin
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Feb 25, 2018
Feb 25, 2018 at 6:33 AM UTC
where is my indian
I’ve ordered and carried my steaming cup of brown to my table to ignore the falling snow beyond the walls of this box. My clothes are wrong, my hair as well. I just cut it, and everyone knows which mistakes I made. A man sneezes and the song changes. Better not make eye contact with anyone; I am not in their league, here at the muddy spoon cafe. Chewing so loudly in the de-creeping silence, these safe, polite, quiet ones. I am the creep here. I am different. My thighs are tense. Hunching over the paper, arms tense and clutching  a gnarled red pen-- It’s probably self-indulgent to even sign my name. Someone’s shuffling cards. I almost forgot. The awkwardness I’m filled with breathes out a short sigh when I realize --my part’s over. “Do you know Sanskrit? Do you know what that is?” A woman asks another. I want to choke on the pretension The tenseness, I adjust my leg to relieve pressure on my ankle. Why can’t I just enjoy the snow? That’s all I really came here for-- well, and the coffee. I hear a woman cough with an unaffected tenor, which would convey her gender to an interested party but to me carries no intonation. I wonder if the girl I recognize from class thinks I’m following her. I came here for coffee, sweetheart! Is it yet too hot for me to dare a drink? I can see it, the steam, rising out of the corner of my eye. I haven’t looked away from my hand in twenty minutes. “Who am I?” they may be asking myself for me. I don’t have a clue. They can think about that problem for themselves while they’re lonely in their forties. I’m lonely now and I hope not to live that long. Here, we pretend not to see each other’s faces in the gleaming presence of steaming cups. “I don’t want to wonder about that.” I realize there’s nothing I even deem worth writing down.
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Feb 5, 2012
Feb 5, 2012 at 4:13 AM UTC
Coffeeshop
I’ve ordered and carried my steaming cup of brown to my table to ignore the falling snow beyond the walls of this box. My clothes are wrong, my hair as well. I just cut it, and everyone knows which mistakes I made. A man sneezes and the song changes. Better not make eye contact with anyone; I am not in their league, here at the muddy spoon cafe. Chewing so loudly in the de-creeping silence, these safe, polite, quiet ones. I am the creep here. I am different. My thighs are tense. Hunching over the paper, arms tense and clutching  a gnarled red pen-- It’s probably self-indulgent to even sign my name. Someone’s shuffling cards. I almost forgot. The awkwardness I’m filled with breathes out a short sigh when I realize --my part’s over. “Do you know Sanskrit? Do you know what that is?” A woman asks another. I want to choke on the pretension The tenseness, I adjust my leg to relieve pressure on my ankle. Why can’t I just enjoy the snow? That’s all I really came here for-- well, and the coffee. I hear a woman cough with an unaffected tenor, which would convey her gender to an interested party but to me carries no intonation. I wonder if the girl I recognize from class thinks I’m following her. I came here for coffee, sweetheart! Is it yet too hot for me to dare a drink? I can see it, the steam, rising out of the corner of my eye. I haven’t looked away from my hand in twenty minutes. “Who am I?” they may be asking myself for me. I don’t have a clue. They can think about that problem for themselves while they’re lonely in their forties. I’m lonely now and I hope not to live that long. Here, we pretend not to see each other’s faces in the gleaming presence of steaming cups. “I don’t want to wonder about that.” I realize there’s nothing I even deem worth writing down.
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Dear friends , this is an old poem of mine which was composed after I learnt that one of my favourite Hollywood actor Richard Gere had become a Buddhist and believed in Zen Philosophy. So having read about Zen, I composed in a simple format about the same. Hope you like it. Thanks, - Raj.                     ZEN PHILOSOPHY With roots buried deep in soils of Ancient India, And watered by the exotic blend of three different cultures; Reflecting the mysticism of India, the pragmatism of the Confucian mind, and the Taoist’s love of naturalness and spontaneity, Buddhism bloomed and blossomed into an exotic flower called 'Zen Philosophy'! In 475 AD a pupil of Buddha called Bodhidharma went to China. There the Mahayana School of Buddhism mingled with Chinese Taoism, which evolved into Chan Philosophy! 'Chan ' derived from the Sanskrit  word 'dhyana', which meant 'silent meditation',  - Through which the Buddha attained enlightenment and salvation! Later, in 1200 AD this Chan philosophy travelled to the shores of Japan, Where 'Chan' got translated to 'Zen' by its many followers and fans! ZEN is the art of meditation to achieve inner awakening, To gain intuitive knowledge, highlighting the inadequacy of logical reasoning! It therefore advocates the practice of 'zazen' or 'sitting meditation', For acquiring inner awakening through silent contemplation! ZEN could be practised in our daily life, Without entering a hermitage, leaving behind your family or wife! 'Gain the naturalness of your original true nature', -  preaches the Zen Teacher through meditation, 'Rather than through mere faith and devotion, which is contrary to Zen notion.' 'One must awaken to this present moment to feel this life, And not waste time in speculations of an Elusive After-Life’! The 'Enso' or the ‘circle’, is the Zen symbol which is often deployed, Symbolising Enlightenment, Strength, the Universe, and the Void! With this 'expression of the moment ' the Zen Philosophy starts, And today the ‘Enso’ is also the symbol of Expressionist Art! Never ask the Zen Master 'What is Zen, when, or how? ', For he will always tell you, - 'Zen Is The Instant Now'!                                                       - Raj Nandy, New Delhi.
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Jul 12, 2016
Jul 12, 2016 at 11:17 AM UTC
ZEN PHILOSOPHY
Dear friends , this is an old poem of mine which was composed after I learnt that one of my favourite Hollywood actor Richard Gere had become a Buddhist and believed in Zen Philosophy. So having read about Zen, I composed in a simple format about the same. Hope you like it. Thanks, - Raj.                     ZEN PHILOSOPHY With roots buried deep in soils of Ancient India, And watered by the exotic blend of three different cultures; Reflecting the mysticism of India, the pragmatism of the Confucian mind, and the Taoist’s love of naturalness and spontaneity, Buddhism bloomed and blossomed into an exotic flower called 'Zen Philosophy'! In 475 AD a pupil of Buddha called Bodhidharma went to China. There the Mahayana School of Buddhism mingled with Chinese Taoism, which evolved into Chan Philosophy! 'Chan ' derived from the Sanskrit  word 'dhyana', which meant 'silent meditation',  - Through which the Buddha attained enlightenment and salvation! Later, in 1200 AD this Chan philosophy travelled to the shores of Japan, Where 'Chan' got translated to 'Zen' by its many followers and fans! ZEN is the art of meditation to achieve inner awakening, To gain intuitive knowledge, highlighting the inadequacy of logical reasoning! It therefore advocates the practice of 'zazen' or 'sitting meditation', For acquiring inner awakening through silent contemplation! ZEN could be practised in our daily life, Without entering a hermitage, leaving behind your family or wife! 'Gain the naturalness of your original true nature', -  preaches the Zen Teacher through meditation, 'Rather than through mere faith and devotion, which is contrary to Zen notion.' 'One must awaken to this present moment to feel this life, And not waste time in speculations of an Elusive After-Life’! The 'Enso' or the ‘circle’, is the Zen symbol which is often deployed, Symbolising Enlightenment, Strength, the Universe, and the Void! With this 'expression of the moment ' the Zen Philosophy starts, And today the ‘Enso’ is also the symbol of Expressionist Art! Never ask the Zen Master 'What is Zen, when, or how? ', For he will always tell you, - 'Zen Is The Instant Now'!                                                       - Raj Nandy, New Delhi.
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. In braze, silent breeze of dreams incantations, Shiva arms sway in the forest dark, mushroom, Cloud, lord with fungi, mosses whose clinging Shades of branches, braids deep, forking stories Of old, brooding cauldron Druids, sidles Eastern Spindrift words of Sanskrit spake, told in veined Sacred hands unfound, celestial spines, moulded Green, in the windy monkish statutes of the fallen And single handed claps of the missionary leaves.
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Jan 26, 2014
Jan 26, 2014 at 6:47 PM UTC
Hazel Tree
Oftentimes I find myself having these random bubble bursts of thoughts-I want to learn Sanskrit…..what? Where does that even come from? Or Hey! Learning to sew would be neat. Or you know, I could really benefit from reading the newspaper. And the thing that I struggle to understand is that when I have thoughts like this, is this an attempt to discover more of me or is this me trying to force an idea onto myself that isn’t actually me, but what I think I would like to be... Think about it. If you came out of the womb and you had a catalogue and could then choose carefully categorized qualities in yourself, what would you choose? Sometimes it feels like then it would be easier then having to try and discover it for yourself. And I could go on about how no, it’s great that we have to go through this struggle to find it and I’ve learned all these things from my journey, but unfortunately, that is not this poem. No one actually knows who they are completely ever. That’s a neverending journey according to...well everyone. But why do we fight so hard to find it? If someone paid me to try one new thing each day, I would take them up on that opportunity but if you think at the end of it all, I’d tell you what I learned about myself, then you can have your money back because I’m not interested. Not every experience is a learning experience and not every adventure has to mean something. I like rock climbing. I like blueberries and strawberries and raspberries. I take long car rides just because I can, thank you Hybrid vehicles. But I am not a rock climber or a farm girl or a lover of cars. I know that I am a person who is going day to day doing things that I like to do. So I may pick up my ukulele this day and I may never pick it up again for another year, but I certainly won’t be selling it because of that. I own more books than I can account for and haven’t read more than 30% of them, but I hate having to take books to the used book store and I love buying more. And so what does that make me? I don’t know, but it doesn’t matter, because that is not this poem.
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Jan 2, 2014
Jan 2, 2014 at 12:55 AM UTC
I Want To Learn Sanskrit
Oftentimes I find myself having these random bubble bursts of thoughts-I want to learn Sanskrit…..what? Where does that even come from? Or Hey! Learning to sew would be neat. Or you know, I could really benefit from reading the newspaper. And the thing that I struggle to understand is that when I have thoughts like this, is this an attempt to discover more of me or is this me trying to force an idea onto myself that isn’t actually me, but what I think I would like to be... Think about it. If you came out of the womb and you had a catalogue and could then choose carefully categorized qualities in yourself, what would you choose? Sometimes it feels like then it would be easier then having to try and discover it for yourself. And I could go on about how no, it’s great that we have to go through this struggle to find it and I’ve learned all these things from my journey, but unfortunately, that is not this poem. No one actually knows who they are completely ever. That’s a neverending journey according to...well everyone. But why do we fight so hard to find it? If someone paid me to try one new thing each day, I would take them up on that opportunity but if you think at the end of it all, I’d tell you what I learned about myself, then you can have your money back because I’m not interested. Not every experience is a learning experience and not every adventure has to mean something. I like rock climbing. I like blueberries and strawberries and raspberries. I take long car rides just because I can, thank you Hybrid vehicles. But I am not a rock climber or a farm girl or a lover of cars. I know that I am a person who is going day to day doing things that I like to do. So I may pick up my ukulele this day and I may never pick it up again for another year, but I certainly won’t be selling it because of that. I own more books than I can account for and haven’t read more than 30% of them, but I hate having to take books to the used book store and I love buying more. And so what does that make me? I don’t know, but it doesn’t matter, because that is not this poem.
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They say that music and maths are the worlds unifier, its non-barrier standard. All can unite in music and maths. Yet, they forget the literature form of Poetry. Poetry its long history, dating back to the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh. Evolving from folk songs such as the Chinese Shijing, or from a need to retell oral epics, as with the Sanskrit Vedas, Zoroastrian Gathas, and the Homeric epics. Poetry is the history of mankind. Memorable for its form, rhyme, meter, subject, symbolism, metaphors, similes, hidden meanings, Truth, fantasy and fable. All human emotion, no matter what colour, gender, creed, faith or belief system, is welcome through poetry, gains from poetry, learns from poetry and in return is taught by poetry. Those lines in a myriad of languages, styles, form and content is mankind's story, a poem can feed your soul 'Invictus' taught humankind through one man's struggle. Not music, not maths. From a Sonnet to Shi Villanelle toTanka Haiku to Ode Ghazal to Narrative poetry Epic poetry to Dramatic poetry Satirical poetry to Light poetry Lyric poetry to an Elegy Verse fable to Prose poetry. We write poetry because we are human! filled with passion. And other pursuits are necessary to sustain human life. But poetry IS what I stay alive for.
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Sep 2, 2014
Sep 2, 2014 at 8:16 PM UTC
Poetry
warped, weird, whirling, wonder-filled, a garland of words eulogized by occidental cosmologists today to deify the milky way for five millennia, in clandestine chambers of the temple of the lord with a lotus navel, oriental sages, finely tuned into ultimate mantras of the cosmos, initiated ‘twice born’ namboodris of kerala into a mellifluous sanskrit verse.... a potent heart melting hymn where our star-studded galaxy, milky in complexion, is seen as a spinning jagged-edged discus, worn as an ornamental ring around vishnu’s slender index finger, from whose whirling lotus navel originate the birth of inseparable twins: warped space intertwined with flowing time now this is a garland of exquisite beauty! © 2019
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Aug 5, 2019
Aug 5, 2019 at 11:29 AM UTC
garland of exquisite beauty
Hello Sam my name is Sam too How do you do? Sam means same in Sanskrit which means we are on the same script Signs signals books music communication everywhere We are brothers from different mothers So then why don't we understand each other? D. Clare
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Feb 9, 2015
Feb 9, 2015 at 5:07 PM UTC
Im the Same as You
Matrilineality is the tracing of descent through the female line corresponding to a societal system in which each person is identified with their matriline;              – their _mother's_ image – and which can involve the inheritance of property and/or titles. A matriline is                                      a line of descent from a common female ancestor to a descendant of either *** in which the individuals in all intervening                           generations are mothers – in other words, a "mother line". In matrilineal descent,                           individuals belong to the same group as their mother.                                                      The matriline of historical nobility was also called the _enatic_ or     _Uterine_ ancestry; From Middle English wombe, wambe, from Old English womb, wamb (“belly, stomach; bowels; heart; womb; hollow”), from Proto-Germanic *wambō (“belly, stomach, abdomen”), from Proto-Indo-European *wamp- (“membrane (of bowels), intestines, womb”). Cognate with Scots wam, wame (“womb”), Dutch wam (“dewlap of beef; belly of a fish”), German Wamme, Wampe (“paunch, belly”), Danish vom (“belly, paunch, rumen”), Swedish våmb (“belly, stomach, rumen”), Norwegian vomb (“belly”), Icelandic vömb (“belly, abdomen, stomach”),              Old Welsh gumbelauc (“womb”), Breton gwamm (“woman, wife”), Sanskrit वपा (vapā́, “the skin or membrane lining the intestines or parts of the viscera, the caul or omentum”).
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Aug 22, 2018
Aug 22, 2018 at 10:37 PM UTC
Matrilineality [for Uterinism]
Matrilineality is the tracing of descent through the female line corresponding to a societal system in which each person is identified with their matriline;              – their _mother's_ image – and which can involve the inheritance of property and/or titles. A matriline is                                      a line of descent from a common female ancestor to a descendant of either *** in which the individuals in all intervening                           generations are mothers – in other words, a "mother line". In matrilineal descent,                           individuals belong to the same group as their mother.                                                      The matriline of historical nobility was also called the _enatic_ or     _Uterine_ ancestry; From Middle English wombe, wambe, from Old English womb, wamb (“belly, stomach; bowels; heart; womb; hollow”), from Proto-Germanic *wambō (“belly, stomach, abdomen”), from Proto-Indo-European *wamp- (“membrane (of bowels), intestines, womb”). Cognate with Scots wam, wame (“womb”), Dutch wam (“dewlap of beef; belly of a fish”), German Wamme, Wampe (“paunch, belly”), Danish vom (“belly, paunch, rumen”), Swedish våmb (“belly, stomach, rumen”), Norwegian vomb (“belly”), Icelandic vömb (“belly, abdomen, stomach”),              Old Welsh gumbelauc (“womb”), Breton gwamm (“woman, wife”), Sanskrit वपा (vapā́, “the skin or membrane lining the intestines or parts of the viscera, the caul or omentum”).
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WHAT is a Hindu, a Moslem or a Christian?     Whence he comes and where he goes?         Ocean is a solution, salty, but-      Corers of Suns gleam on the crest of waves-      One, only One at the helm in the blue.           Pools and streams and lakes and bays      Wells and springs and rain and ice      We see nothing but a drop, in them drops      Nay, vapor condensed: Nay, H2O-right?      Think a little straight, sit up aright       Am I not right? -break, break that H2O      Baffling bright white-light you can see.     Of heat and Energy, Oh! 'Sivam'!     You may call it 'Noor' in Arabic     'Siv' in Sanskrit-what then-     Releases combustion in cells?    Nothing but very heat and Energy.    Uranium and Thorium release the same.    We find Energy unborn eternal     Omnipresent, Omnipotent    Omniscient, and Formless.    The Almighty is Brahma,    Paramatma and Allah.    Jehovah may be for some,    For some Agni, may be that-    Radiant and resplendent Yogic Light.    Cant you see Ocean in rain drop    Cosmic power in a cell or shell?    Cell or Shell-what is in a name?    Is chariot, coat or prison of the soul.    When walls get weak the soul will part    Out through the vent as air off the balloon.    Reading Holy Scriptures, not knowing the sense-   What use? -observe the Nature and think   Knowledge is a chain of fact as pearls   Stringed by Reason and Faith with a Coir of the Truth.   Tension brews as experiences tightly    Loaded on the string, still stronger by Faith.   Knowledge is light to enlighten the folk   Not to **** but for, co-existence in Peace.                  =================
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Dec 21, 2011
Dec 21, 2011 at 10:47 PM UTC
Brooding at Ramzan
WHAT is a Hindu, a Moslem or a Christian?     Whence he comes and where he goes?         Ocean is a solution, salty, but-      Corers of Suns gleam on the crest of waves-      One, only One at the helm in the blue.           Pools and streams and lakes and bays      Wells and springs and rain and ice      We see nothing but a drop, in them drops      Nay, vapor condensed: Nay, H2O-right?      Think a little straight, sit up aright       Am I not right? -break, break that H2O      Baffling bright white-light you can see.     Of heat and Energy, Oh! 'Sivam'!     You may call it 'Noor' in Arabic     'Siv' in Sanskrit-what then-     Releases combustion in cells?    Nothing but very heat and Energy.    Uranium and Thorium release the same.    We find Energy unborn eternal     Omnipresent, Omnipotent    Omniscient, and Formless.    The Almighty is Brahma,    Paramatma and Allah.    Jehovah may be for some,    For some Agni, may be that-    Radiant and resplendent Yogic Light.    Cant you see Ocean in rain drop    Cosmic power in a cell or shell?    Cell or Shell-what is in a name?    Is chariot, coat or prison of the soul.    When walls get weak the soul will part    Out through the vent as air off the balloon.    Reading Holy Scriptures, not knowing the sense-   What use? -observe the Nature and think   Knowledge is a chain of fact as pearls   Stringed by Reason and Faith with a Coir of the Truth.   Tension brews as experiences tightly    Loaded on the string, still stronger by Faith.   Knowledge is light to enlighten the folk   Not to **** but for, co-existence in Peace.                  =================
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"In the borderless kingdom of poetry, poet is the emperor" KALIDASA (Sanskrit classical poet circa,3Cen BCE) His words "Apare, Kavya Samsare, Kavireva prajapati"
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Sep 2, 2013
Sep 2, 2013 at 12:25 PM UTC
rule thy kingdom of poetry, oh! emperor of imagination
*I found peace, on  water's ample ******* the river cascaded, plethora of questions, the fervent lover, wanting to know more and more though she knows me body and soul, in and out, from the days I was small. We became lovers at the first sight, tickling my bod'y secret places she taught me, alphabets of a woman, one by one now I can read each, a cryptic tome, full of secret murmurs and symbols, hieroglyphycs, Sanskrit, all rich, obscure languages. My river, the quintessential woman, power of meandering serpent, immense her hands supple, fingers, mischievous,moving, which make my mouth go dry, with the pleasure that erupts in me. Embracing her cool waters I come alive, even when my heart is on fire. We have spoken to each other long long hours, spilled every secret, forbidden wish, made sure depths of each is  filled with the scent of other, I found my peace on the bed of water, where I  had spilled my seeds first, ecstatic never forgotten that moment, ever.
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Oct 3, 2012
Oct 3, 2012 at 8:31 PM UTC
I found peace on water's ample *******
burned skin charred eyes mangled bones patience running thin granite legs made to fall dusty gray matter inside the keg wanting to rise, wanting to drown what difference would it make? as a man he lay still as a lover he goes still
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Mar 18, 2018
Mar 18, 2018 at 9:26 AM UTC
Sanskrit
Sitting in white shirt (Loosened yuppie Windsor knot) Armchair laughing Having realized the grand joke of life Satisfied little Sanskrit honey Is it a bohdi tree or burning bush (When really are one and same) Don't think too hard Suburban white boy dreams of trap houses With tie over shoulder As the tv says it prevents ***** on tie Little air planes Round and white Hard pressed (to explain) Make one fly at high speed Get it? (never mind inside joke laughing) Talks like a gang banger Can't take it seriously Little big boy equals not shook Drinking rot gut tallboys Days after and minutes away Zehaf-Bibeau war memorial Winchester repeater in hand Supposed ideological threat needed Expand the police state
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Nov 1, 2014
Nov 1, 2014 at 2:00 AM UTC
Loosened Yuppie Tie