To-Be Or Not-To-Be (Happy): Satisfaction

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Sunday, 6 October 2013

Eternally Happy: परमानंद

There is a quest that most face sometime or the other.

Should one succumb to desires seeking pleasure?
Or should one strive for happiness or still higher order for bliss ?
How does one resolve these queries ?

I have no doubt to express that I am not competent to answer above questions. But in order to quench my own thirst, I do try to find answers in my own ways.

Until more enlightenment dawns, I go by a concept that I read somewhere: GOD is a beautiful flower that created so many noses (in the form of life in material-world as also in the form of the infinite-n-infinitesimal Universe) to smell itself and enjoy!

What does one do on seeing a beautiful flower?

1/ Some don't have time to see them at all.
2/ Some pluck it in order to create creative displays on head, or shirt, or in a vase.
3/ Few others gaze at them, analyse, submit reports and go away.
4/ Very few cajole them, nurse the plants that sport them with fertilisers and water. And their journey is likely to graduate and go "beyond-them".

First one is short of time perhaps because of her busy-ness in earning money (material resources).

Second and third types 'like' the flowers. The last one 'loves' them. But the first one probably seems very busy in "Me-Myself-Mine" to know about both the 'like', 'love' and beyond.

For the last one perhaps the thought that "Me, Material-Universe (the flower and the plant, etc), and Lord (G-O-D: Generator-Operator-Destructor) of the Universe are no-different" gives a blissful feeling.

For the rest, if the otherway-round-thought gives a blissful feeling then they are the lord-of-themselves: free to choose their own option. Ultimate need actually is to enjoy while seeking answers!

Hereunder is a poetic expression in Marathi language (Devnagari script), a version of the original poem in English already published by me earlier.

Part-1: The Journey: Wants-to-Needs! Extrinsic-to-Intrinsic !!
एक प्रवास: इच्छांकडून गरजांकडे, बाह्यसुखांकडून आंतरिक सुखांकडे !

इच्छेवरी-प्रेम, की सुखापरी-आनंद; असेतरी काय हा परमानंद ?

बागडे ते भूके-बालक मिळताचं चरमरीतं खाऊ
अटेन्शन-अन् थोडंसं-प्रेम, 'टेन्शन'-ताऊ-भाऊ-ही करती या...हू

बालके होता पालकं, गरजांच्या होती इच्छा-रूक्षेच्छा
होताचं सीनियऱ-बालकं, इच्छा होती कल्पव्रुक्षेच्छा
छत्राऐवजी घर, घराऐवजी मोठे घर, हवे त्याहूनही मोठे घर
बस-ऐवजी कार, तद्-नंतर लागे लक्झरी-कारची घरघर. =1=

इच्छेवरी-प्रेम, की सुखापरी-आनंद; काय असावा बरे परमानंद ?
सुखात दडती इच्छा-स्वच्छंद, परि प्रेमात दडे आनंद !

इच्छा होता फुलाची, नाहीका वाटत फुल तोडावं रे ?
परि प्रेमापोटी फुलाच्या, देशी खत-पाणीचं फुलझाडा-रे

अखेर इच्छाच त्या, आगंतुक शरीर-मनाच्या इच्छाच-रे
अप्रमाणित-अगणित, करिती "म"-मजसी अगतिक रे
विनाश काले करिती भल-भल्यांचीही बुद्दी विपरीत रे
ओसामा-वा असो-सद्दाम, इंद्रसत्ताही कूचकामी ठरे
अरेरे अरेरे, उद्दामांचाही उद्दाम-"मी" संपत्तीसंवेचं मरेरे
तयापुढे तर विग्यानही नमे-रे. ओ-माय-गॉड्, खरंच तू ग्रेटरे. =2=

इच्छेवरी-प्रेम, की सुखापरी-आनंद; काय असे बरे परमानंद ?
जगद्-इच्छेत भासे सुख, तर विश्व-प्रेमात गवसे आनंद !
निर्भेळ-निरेच्छ-निर्मळ विश्वनाथी-प्रेमात पऱि परमानंद !! =3=

Part-2: The Journey: Body-to-Mind-to-Soul ! Happiness-to-Bliss !!
प्रवासाचा एक मार्ग : शरीर-ते-मन-ते-आत्मा ! आनंद-ते-परमानंद !!

(FORTHCOMING. You also may visit English-version already published earlier.)

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I am afraid ! What do I do !!
Fearful-Of-Death-of-Birth
Take Habits For A Ride
Happy-Birthday-to-Youooo
Do You Celebrate Mean-or-Green
Big-Be Or Bug-Be !
Raam or Krishna-Shyam: Tell me Hey Raam!
Are You Good If Others Are Bad?
Want Need-Or-Want
How To Make A Difference
Love is Care.. Care is Love !
Deity is in the eyes of the beholder
Success-or-failure! What-do-you-like?
Ball-Basin-Team Combine !  Maketh The Smile Divine !!

Can-changing-thoughts-change-a-nation
Functional-Aesthetics
Rat-race
Who Comes First: Consumer Or Customer ?
Beware Of Political-Presentations
Want Need-Or-Want
Listen To The Iceberg Beyond Tip

Tuesday, 25 June 2013

Poverty-to-Power of Poetry

Last week I enjoyed reading a review¹ on poetry culture.

The reviewer's declaration, about he being a rare-reader of poems, reminded me myself as a poor-reader of poems. That was years ago as a school-boy.

Impression that I carried the way poetry used to be taught was that it had necessarily to be grammatically correct, full of flowery verses and stuffed with rich words, etc. etc. Foolishly I used to think that more it is incomprehensible, like some typical paintings of well-known artists that only a chosen few professors or research scholars are capable of, richer it is.

In fact, I was one among the best-poors at being unable to read as well as being unable to understand them. That in no way means I read them a lot now.

But now often, although in the form of broken poems, I do try to express poetically. Believe me, it gives a lot of happiness and satisfaction out of such creations and sharing them if you get an audience. It is rare specie though.

Now that I got one in you, here is an impromptu expression on 'Power-of-Poetry' that the review¹ motivated me to pen down.

'Pover-ty'-to-'Power' of Poetry

आदीच पडलो आमी माटापेक्षा माट
त्यामंदी दीलायसा टकूरयाला तू कवितेचा शाट
आरं दोस्त हाय तर कायबाय ते सरळ सांगकी
हीतं गुरूजीसंगं सारं काडू राहीलं आमची लायकी

पूर्वी लय वाटूलाय, कवीचा इत्का का दरबारी थाट
समध्या भाषा-तासास्नी लावाया आमची पूरती वाट
आता गेलो लिहाया थोडंबी कायमाय-की
समजू येई गड्या मले तर टायमंच न्हायकी

येळ न्हाय म्हनीत सोडलं लेखांचं डराफ्टावर डराफ्ट
समजंना कोनालाबी व्हावलेच जर लाईनींचे सहस्त्रोव पाट
आरं येड्या, चारोळी कवितेची थोरवी न्हाईरं थोडीथोडकी
समजून घेकी तीज्यासमोर तूजीच जराबी न्हाई लायकी

The English version is as follows.

'Pover-ty'-to-'Power' of Poetry

Already I was a Damn-Dum..m..mBest-Fool
Then how do I decode your poetry-in-school
Can't you befriend-n-prosaic simply-cool
Else they call me a useless Bigger-Fool

Today although I prose many pages-full
That even a Prosaist can't decode with big push-n-pull
Not even after a lot of time and her effortful
Says ²KISS.....s....s..s..sS, You-Damn-Fool

Now I know why poetry is Easy-Fast-n-Vast to mull
Rhyming-n-versing make it even more beau..uu..tiful

Actually both, the theme¹ in the poetry that was reviewed¹ in Loksatta as well as the way it was reviewed, reinforced my thoughts about 'Power-of-Poems'.

In fact, poetry has power to conquer ( overcome 'poverty' of) mind also. If one takes them as tips, poetry is truly very 'Powerful', 'Easy-Fast-n-Vast' both to express as well as to understand.

Just as a picture has power to contain and explain so many words and thoughts, a short poem like it's modern counterpart a Tweet or like a Japanese Haiku can easily convey meanings of so many thoughts otherwise in-expressible even in terms of vast number of proses. It can speedily and easily communicate a vast subject or experience. Maiku is my version of the Haiku.

It also gives flexibility and liberty to use dual-meaning rants using slang-language. To that extent, it makes it easy and powerfullly creative for one to express. Rhyming and versing make it beautiful and easy to digest.

Unlike a speech that activates 15 to 20% of brain cells, it's a fact that a writing exercise activates 85 to 90% of brain cells. Imagine the power of writing a poem then.

Footnote-1: Review or you may say views of Sanjay-ji Pawar in Loksatta Marathi Daily about Aa-Sanskriti (असंस्कृती: the lack of culture) authored by Abhinaya Ramesh Kamble.

Footnote-2: KISS: Keep-It-Short-n-Sweet! In fact, poetry according to me is a KISS-language! Knowledge-In-Short-n-Sweet-language, I mean!!

Sunday, 11 November 2012

Eternally Happy

Part-I

The Journey: Wants-to-Needs! Extrinsic-to-Intrinsic !!

Happiness is the desire, that makes you-n-me wild
From a new born child to grand-grand parents of the child.

Cries the child, 'cause it feels hungry.
Sooner gets fed, faster it feels happy.
Attention-defied grandpa feels sad-n-sundry.
Surplus attention makes both happy.

Either-or, happiness is dependent-n-external.
Isn't then dis-continuity in happiness surely eternal?

Child feels happy on getting it's needs.
Minimalistic n short-term being it's deeds.

With age, smaller 'needs' become 'wants': Bigger desires.
And then bigger-n-yet-bigger desires.

Child needs shelter, man wants house.
Then 'wants' smarter-n-bigger house.
Fancier-n-bigger car.
'Wants' to move around-near-n-far.

Then ... S/he-n-her-Wan(t)s..
Polluting Self-n-the-Planet On-n-On-n-On.
One day brings maturity, the dusky-silky-Dawn.

Realisation-dawn(s);
That "surely missing 'something' more, you-silly-pawn"
Even after taking 'Bigger-n-more, N-more, N-more' by-the-horn.

Realisation that 'bigger-n-more' was the need of In-secure-pawn'.
Thinking it lasts 'longer', N-hence-feeling more 'Secure-Don'.

Hey.. tell-me!

Can anyone answer ...?
How much 'more-n-bigger'
Will make one more sure-n-secure;
N-secure.. N-secure.. how much longer?

He knows? She knows?? No-one knows!
God-only-knows!!
At most it's finite that everyone knows!!!

Amassing so-called-secure bunker-houses,
With 'suicide-bomb' army around, that keenly browses,
Oh-no; useless turned out his colossal material wealth,
Drones that still overnight knocked him down-to-death.

Alas! The Death of so-call('d) Wealth!

Material wealth can't go beyon(d) the Cycle of Supreme: The GOD!
Thou are Greath! Generation-Operation-Destruction!! Oh My GOD!!!

Part-II

The Journey: Body-to-Mind-to-Soul ! Happiness-to-Bliss !!

Material-Wealth to Holistic-Health of The-Soul,
Want-of Visible-Body to Need-of The-Subtle-Invisible-Soul,
In Earth-Water-Fire-Air-Aether as the complete 'Whole',
No one except the Subtler-Supreme really,
Has 'That' quality of 'Being There' eternally.

Faster-n-earlier realises this Someone,
'Luckier-n-happier' pawn is s/he the One!

Moving from complexity-to-simplicity in-the-pan I (Aa-y)
Too small-n-complex; Me, An Idiot-Fr....ay..y,
Trying to be the luckier one
by Deep-Diving-take on this difficult-one!

Serving with dedication the Karma I undertake.
Y'day say for a new array's sake
So that two frames same hook can take.

Next finishing a-deed a-day earlier,
Making the-served-one* a little more happier.

N-yet next, arranging a desk neater-n-cleaner
Making life of my dear (wife) a bit (duller?) merrier-n-simpler.

At No extra Wealth, No-Money!

Only some Creative Fun-filled Efforts Honey!!

WOW!
Smaller-n-surer the doses..
Faster-n-easier the journey crosses..
Meditative-n-Blissful 'Inside' it poises!

Still unsatisfied? That's a quick self-test Buddy:
It tells, may be you are Moody.
Be patient in this meditative journey you Goodie
Go Steady! N-steady!! N-steady!!!

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