:-)

Sunday, October 25, 2009

there is a part of me, that cannot be touched even by death. that is immortal. now, who is that me?

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just as important as it is to open my eyes, its also important to close them sometimes.

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as i was going to type these in, a close friend walked in and gave a fiery speech saying: "stop trying".

Saturday, October 24, 2009

Nallathor Veenai



Nallathor veenai seidhe - adhai
nalangeda puzhudhiyil erivadhundo?
Nallathor veenai seidhe - adhai
nalangeda puzhudhiyil erivadhundo?

solladi sivashakthi - enaich
chudarmigum arivudan padaithuvittai
solladi sivashakthi - enaich
chudarmigum arivudan padaithuvittai

vallamai thaaraayo vallamai thaaraayo - indha
maanilam payanura vaazhvadharke
vallamai thaaraayo - indha
maanilam payanura vaazhvadharke

solladi sivashakthi - nilach
chumaiyena vaazhndhidap puriguvaiyo

Nallathor veenai seidhe - adhai
nalangeda puzhudhiyil erivadhundo?

thasaiyinaith theechudinum - siva
sakthiyaip paadum nall agam kaettaen
nasaiyaru manam kaettaen - niththam
navamenach chudar tharum uyir kaettaen,
asaivuru madhi kaettaen - ivai
arulvadhil unakkedhum thadaiyuladho?

ivai arulvadhil unakkedhum thadaiyuladho?

Nallathor veenai seidhe - adhai
nalangeda puzhudhiyil erivadhundo?
Nallathor veenai seidhe - adhai
nalangeda puzhudhiyil erivadhundo?

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What an honour to have walked the same earth as this man.

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Odi polama!? :-)

Monday, October 19, 2009

This civilisation suffers from deep arrogance. It thinks it has all the answers. And its filled with so much noise. Any culture that does not value silence is bound to collapse. For only in silence do we hear God's voice. Sense its beauty, and feel touched by its grace. But we are so lost. Everybody from out parents, teachers and priests are so thoroughly lost. How can the rest be any different.

This is a culture under crisis. How are we going to ever learn some humility. to bow down. quieten down. Surrender. Profoundly surrender and wash the feet of god. Can there be any hope otherwise? Is there sense in any other form of action?

We are very much on the self-destructive mode, and need to learn some mindfulness soon. Awareness and Awakening is the only salvation. Unless we become very alert and alive, and open and light and yet agile and sharp and warm and kind and supple, and responsible and uncompromising, there is no way out. And all these cannot come without true devotion. without coming face to face with God, and be completely silenced by its presence. Silenced and yet brought alive, humbled and yet blessed. lost and also found.

Can humanity make it? Have we suffered enough to let go off our arrogance. or is there more misery and strife waiting? how many more do we have to kill before it hits us. How many more children? Fathers and brothers and sisters? How many more rivers do we have to pollute, fish destroyed, Forests cleared? how many more wars, recessions, lay-offs and bailouts. would this treadmill of madness ever stop? will there ever be sanity again? not to ask of peace and brotherhood.

What will we do with the blood dripping from our hands? deny it? Explain it off - Theorizing about the nature of man. Yet again for the billionth time. Shrug our shoulders with cynicism and continue to be the cowards we have been. look away and be selfish?

How are we ever going to answer our conscience? How do we even sleep in the night?

love,

Saturday, October 17, 2009

The only way i feel i can truly engage with this rotten civilisation, is to completely disconnect from it psychologically.

Friday, October 16, 2009

The show has begun, and its Heavy Metal

This is it.
Like it or Not,
This is it.
Believe it or Not,
This is it.
No point Escaping,
Grow up and Face it.

The stage is waiting,
for the Actor to Arrive.
With an evil gleam
and a content heart
he wears his grease paint and mask,
to shatter himself against the rocksĀ 
and split life wide open.
So the dove can finally soar, soar and soar

Thursday, October 01, 2009

"God, please remind me again and again that I am nothing. Strip me of the consolations of my complacent spirituality. Plunge me into the darkness where I cannot rely on any of my old tricks for maintaining my separation. Let me give up on trying to convince myself that my own spiritual deeds are bound to be pleasing to you. Take all my juicy spiritual feelings, Master, and dry them up, and then please light them on fire. Take my lofty spiritual concepts and plunge them into darkness, and then burn them. Let me only love you, Lord. Let me quietly and with unutterable simplicity just love you. "
- Adapted from The Dark Night of the Soul