Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Tapas

न उत्तरदायक जीवनस्य परन्तपः
प्राणायाम उप तपः

Living life responsibly is the highest form of tapas (process of cleansing oneself of impurities)!
Pranayama is a secondary form of tapas to assist the same!

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Differential calculus vs Politics

Q: What portfolio will you take up when we obtain swaraj? Will you be prime minister or foreign minister?

A: Under swaraj, Ill become a professor of mathematics and retire from political life. I detest politics. I still wish to write a book on differential calculus. The country is in a very bad way and I am compelled to take part in politics!

Sunday, November 27, 2011

Life beyond schooling and jobs

Life beyond

This is a hour long lecture by Prof Devdas Menon (Prof, Structural Engg, IIT Madras) on discovering ones life purpose and letting the inner seed flower to its fullest extent. The lecture is based on the speakers personal quest. He also supports it by drawing ideas from modern research in psychology & ancient wisdom from many traditions.

Though the context of the lecture is decided by the audience - 20 yr olds studying BE in IIT, I feel most of these ideas lend themselves to be adapted by everyone of us in varying contexts in our lives.

Please spend an hour watching this and reflecting upon the same!

Saturday, November 26, 2011

ஆசை ஒழிய அருள்


ஆசையென்னும் இம்சை
இன்றே ஒழிய
நன்றே நீரே
அருள் பொழியாயோ!

Thursday, November 24, 2011

Awareness, the master!

Sharp vessel
sudden cut
blood oozes
mind races!

Practice works
awareness watches
mind settles
blood oozes!

Blood oozes
blood flows
blood drips
red floor!

Awareness watches
awareness awareness
flow slows
flow stops


Rain arrives
life flows
master watches
awareness master!

Saturday, November 19, 2011

Core & Elective!

A heart at peace and a heart full of responsibility go hand in hand! Not for nothing Hinduism has the image of Narayana - eternally at rest and totally responsible for the well being of all of creation! Discovering a state of being where ones heart is completely at peace and filled to the brim with responsibility is the core module of life's education. All else is elective!

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Spirits Irrebellious

Full moon
clothed in orange
almost shy,
hiding behind clouds
rises, in effortless elegance,
from the sea below,
dry and untouched
by those furious waves!

Few eyes
care to notice,
despite its beautiful juxtaposition
by the side of
a dilapidated white building
on a wide beach
filled with people
entirely wet; touched by
the ravages of time!

This immensity
is capable and willing
to edge every heart
into that eternity,
which is not entangled,
in the causal web,
that emerges
from that spider
also known as time!

Sleep walkers,
caught in
imaginary & transitory parts
of the great unseen web all around,
are oblivious,
to the orange disc in the sky,
and that all pervading one!

And sadly,
neither are the rebellious!
for space in the heart
to hold all pairs of opposites
is essential
to set one free!
to notice the Orange moon!

Raw energy,
bountifully they possess;
the rebellious.
but is directed outward!
they notice the full moon
occasionally, for sure!
But, end up,
like the little blue beetle
which by its very struggle
gets caught deeper in the web!

Meaningful rebellion,
eliminates all
illusory self/world views!
leads to the discovery,
of that secret ocean within -
the seat of the non-dual turtle,
the wellspring of ceaseless energy!

On contact,
waters the inner seed
which arises gloriously,
like the orange moon,
dry and untouched
by furious thought waves,
that is merely the surface
of a far far deeper reality!
Spirits Irrebellious!

Tagore to Gandhi

What power, is there in this world to rob
me of my freedom? For do not thy arms reach
the captive through the dungeon-walls bringing
unfettered release to the soul?
And must I cling to this body in fear of
death, as a miser to his barren treasure?
Has not this spirit of mine the eternal call
to the feast of everlasting life?
Let me know that all pain and death are
shadows of the moment; that the dark force
which sweeps between me and thy truth is but the
mist before the sunrise; that thou alone art
mine forever

-- Tagore (in a letter to Gandhi)

Monday, November 07, 2011

கோபாலன்

தேன் இனிது
தேன் சிந்தும் இதழ் இனிது என்பர்
எதனினும் பேரினிதான
உன் யாழிசை கேளாதார்

உன் குழல் அழைத்த நொடியிலுருந்து
உன் நிழல் தரும் அமைதி தேடி
உன் பின் கோகளாய் வந்தோம்

உயிர்கொண்டும் உயிரற்றிருக்கும் அனைத்தையும்
தன்னுள் வைத்து வழி நடத்தி
பாலனம் செய்யும் கோபாலா!