Hi folks
This poem just flowed and I couldn't resist posting without too much of a thought about the need to reflect and too much of corrections. I hope it is ok enough for posting. Here I go :
While I was down & immersed in thought
God came & asked why am I looking lost?
Surprised, I asked Him if he can help,
He said yes but asked me to be brief.
I said I wanted Peace, harmony & liberation
He replied saying my sequence in iteration
Was in the reverse order of evolution
Peace & harmony came after liberation.
I then asked as to why I can’t be liberated?
He said no problem son if you are interested.
But it must be now giving up in total surrender
Without the need for some “want” to remember.
Well I said I have unfinished tasks for my family
And he asked why I should be so presumptuous
To imagine it’s my role & not His responsibility
As going by my seeking help, I have none is obvious.
He then said ask something else for ease of tension,
And I sought a showering of riches in pension,
So that when I feel relieved of burden of duty
I can seek that liberation in perfect capacity.
Well He said my bank balance is wafer thin
So He can only make limited “in time” offering,
To keep head above water for me & my kin
But I still could have another wish for asking.
I said then at least give me some recognition,
Ha! He said for that I must lose inner satisfaction
As the more I look within & get that comfort
The less will I get that support from without.
Do you want recognition or inner satisfaction?
You cannot aspire for both & yet be liberated
So think & ask what you want & will Grant
He said and continued He can’t forever wait.
Being a mortal ere I could recover & ask Him
I woke up to face His absence in earthly reality.
It’s said distance between a dream & reality is action
But what can I do as my reality is but pure nightmare.
Neither can I assume responsibility which is suspect,
Nor do I have the wherewithal to live with respect,
Peace & harmony will not come till I get liberation
He will come, but go with only promises of salvation.
Love
Vichu
This poem just flowed and I couldn't resist posting without too much of a thought about the need to reflect and too much of corrections. I hope it is ok enough for posting. Here I go :
While I was down & immersed in thought
God came & asked why am I looking lost?
Surprised, I asked Him if he can help,
He said yes but asked me to be brief.
I said I wanted Peace, harmony & liberation
He replied saying my sequence in iteration
Was in the reverse order of evolution
Peace & harmony came after liberation.
I then asked as to why I can’t be liberated?
He said no problem son if you are interested.
But it must be now giving up in total surrender
Without the need for some “want” to remember.
Well I said I have unfinished tasks for my family
And he asked why I should be so presumptuous
To imagine it’s my role & not His responsibility
As going by my seeking help, I have none is obvious.
He then said ask something else for ease of tension,
And I sought a showering of riches in pension,
So that when I feel relieved of burden of duty
I can seek that liberation in perfect capacity.
Well He said my bank balance is wafer thin
So He can only make limited “in time” offering,
To keep head above water for me & my kin
But I still could have another wish for asking.
I said then at least give me some recognition,
Ha! He said for that I must lose inner satisfaction
As the more I look within & get that comfort
The less will I get that support from without.
Do you want recognition or inner satisfaction?
You cannot aspire for both & yet be liberated
So think & ask what you want & will Grant
He said and continued He can’t forever wait.
Being a mortal ere I could recover & ask Him
I woke up to face His absence in earthly reality.
It’s said distance between a dream & reality is action
But what can I do as my reality is but pure nightmare.
Neither can I assume responsibility which is suspect,
Nor do I have the wherewithal to live with respect,
Peace & harmony will not come till I get liberation
He will come, but go with only promises of salvation.
Love
Vichu
Sahab,
ReplyDeleteApologize I haven't been responding to, (or truth be told, even reading) your recent posts. Life, family et al here too.
Read this one through. Facebook mein isko shayad 'like' karte hain. Smirk!
We can make a category / label here called 'The Sharanagati Supplications'!
Seems like the archetypal Catch-22 situation to me. Merriam-Webster defines it (based no doubt, on the novel's many grapplings with it) as:
"a problematic situation for which the only solution is denied by a circumstance inherent in the problem or by a rule"
The protaganist of the novel and his fellows face a similar issue as you. Them with the army bureaucrats and you with aapka 'Capital H' wala. If you are pure supplicant / follower and there is a 'He' who is setting rules & definitions, which totally apply to you AND the world yet you are clueless about, phir tho scene tight hai.
Aap kuch bhi karo, bolo, maango, ro-o; Usne kiya, kaha, diya wohi sahi ... nahi diya tho bhi 'Usne', whom tho 'Win' usi ka hai. The rest of Catch 22 is pretty eerily like Paresh Raval's OMG.
The whole game seems to be hinged on 'belief'. Believe karte ho, tho 'maangte raho'. Kuch nahi tho 'stand and wait' karo, a la Milton.
Mind you, even in that sonnet, it is Patience, not God who says something. Kya baat hai. And says what? "they also serve", i.e. you are serving", not "to be served"! Mind it!!!
Anand
Great.
ReplyDeleteBeautifully written and the catch 22 analogy is fascinating prompting me to add this bit.
Life's purpose is to recognize His talent, but if you think you have done that you are off the mark, as He is unrecognizable/unfathomable. (Apraapya manasaa saha)
Usko samjana nahin hai aasaan, pehchn na /ehsaas karna tho mushkil hi nahin naa mumkin hai, mere bhai.
Yet our journey is to "realize" that He, You & me are One without a second" & "be" in that indescribable bliss. perhaps in a similar fashion, the nature of our unreal temporal reality is indescribably nightmarish. Identifying this (difficult) is what you do today, Impossibility of realization takes a little longer!!!!!!
Love Vichu