Love in diversity

Illicit love ends in the wee hours! 
Pet love ends in a bit of whining powers! 

Effective love sweetened in life! 
Deserted love ripened in death strife! 

United love lived and fulfilled! 
Unaccomplished love ends with heaviness filled! 

Epic love becomes a portrait! 
Portrait love has become an epic sight! 

Untold love ended in frail and pathos! 
Wicked love has become cheap in earth, alas! 

Niggling love has buried in the mud! 
Sepulcher love has demolished out of sight, O' sad! 

Ref: A Tamil poem 'காதல்' by Poet.பிரியத்தமிழ் உதயா from UK 

காதல்

கள்ள காதல்
காலையில் முடிந்தது
செல்லக் காதல்
சிணுங்கலில் முடிந்தது 

வல்ல காதல்
வாழ்வில் இனித்தது
வாழாத காதல்
சாவில் கனிந்தது

சேர்ந்த காதல்
வாழ்ந்து நிறைந்தது
சேராத காதல்
பாரம் நிறைந்தது

காவியக்காதல்
ஓவியம் ஆனது
ஓவியக்காதல்
காவியம் ஆனது

சொல்லாத காதல்
சோகத்தில் நலிந்தது 
பொல்லாத காதல்
புவனத்தில் மலிந்தது

சில்லறைக் காதல்
சேற்றில் புதைந்தது
கல்லறைக் காதல்
காணாமல் சிதைந்தது - பிரியத்தமிழ்

Hinduism in plurality

The Hinduism has no boundaries,

No founder and no single scripture.

It consists of collective wisdom

Gathered from many centuries.

The Hinduism incorporates all forms

Of beliefs without mandating

Any particular belief

Nor eliminating other beliefs.

The Hinduism is an eclectic one

Representing a variety

Of gods, dogmas, metaphysics

And faiths handed down over years.

The Hinduism is not the Vedic

Alone and go beyond the Vedic.

The shaivam and the Vaisnavam

Stand out, though within the Vedic .

The Jainism and the Buddhism

Are only the off shoots of the Hinduism.

God Jagannath, a tribal god

Is as good as any Hindu gods.

The Hinduism cannot be narrowed down

By the brutal majority of a sect.

It thrives for its plurality.

Blasphemy is beyond its scope.

28.112.2015

What is real charity?

A beggar came to me and begged.

I offered food that he declined.

I offered clothes that he declined.

I offered coins to be declined.

Puzzled, I asked him, “What else would

You prefer to receive from me?”

He asked for my lust and greed.

He asked for my fake and jealousy.

I then sent him empty handed.

Nor did I know that it was God

Who had come to me in disguise.

Is what we give a charity?

25.122.2015

To forgive you and me

‘He that without sin among you,

Let him cast the first stone’ on her.

She was accused of adultery;

Those who brought her wanted justice.

‘Such women shall be stoned to death.’

Laws of Mosses profess like this.

The woman was surprised by Christ;

The crowd dispersed without a word.

‘Father, forgive them.’  Said Jesus,

‘For they know not what they do.’,

At every fall of hammer

On the nail of Crucifixion.

Attack sin, not sinners, said He.

Forgive sin; sin no more, said He

Every saint has a past;

Every sinner has a future.

Christ wants to forgive you and me;

He wants you and me to forgive.

25.12.2015 

Mind can convert it.

Solitude is being alone;

It is invoked and painless.

Loneliness is being alone

It is imposed and painful.

It is like fasting and starving.

Mind has power to convert it.

10.12.2015

To live a life

As a doer, bring out the best

Of yourself.

As a coach, bring out the best

Of the trainee.

As a lover, bring out the zest

Of the beloved.

In the end, you will be proud

That you’ve lived.

10.12.205

Fear is the cause

Revenge tastes sweeter than conquest.

Relief feels better than acquisition.

Escape looks luckier than awards.

Fear, not love, is the cause of life.

10.12.205

Wealthy and worthy people

‘What are you worth?’, someone asked me.

‘I’m worth a hundred pounds.’ said I.

‘Your wealth is immense and how is it?’

‘The charity I made this year comes that much

And that is only I am worth.’ Said I.

10.12.2015

To curb intolerance

At the drop of a hurt sentiment,

Any material can be banned

Be it a book, a play or a song

Lest the writer should be assaulted.

It is a shame to the government

And to the organized people involved.

A wake up call to the rest Indians.

10.12.2015

Desire turning love

Man is attracted to woman,

Thanks to Testosterone present.

Its level in man is on rise

When desire for woman is set.

Its level in him will decline

When desire is replaced by love.

A rapist cannot love women.

A lover cannot rape women.

A father loves his wife and kids

With low level Testosterone,

Which leaves him content in lust,

With no itch for other women.

10.2.2015

Avoid herd.

Don’t follow herd; think why you must do.

Don’t follow herd; think to do on your own.

To follow herd is to embrace

The effect as fate and settle.

07.12.205

See the dog.

Take a dog for an example

To live a life with the least stress.

It doesn’t count its misfortune

Nor make any plan for future.

It lives from moment to moment

And serves to who sustains it.

No regret for the past events

And no fear for the future things,

Man can cut down to an extent

His sorrow and expectations,

Though hard with his big brain.

07.112.2015

Man aided deluge (Chennai)

Left to fill to the brim, with rain in torrent,

Reservoirs in Chennai were let to vomit

Their overloads into bulging rivers,

That rose to overflow their banks and bridges.

The rivers in spate repelled tributaries;

Tributaries in spate repelled rivulets.

Rivulets in spate repelled the field flows.

Chennai in deluge, thanks to authorities;

Bridges under water, travel was stayed.

Roads under water, electricity was cut.

Chennai under the cloud, network was cut.

Chennai marooned, thanks to authorities;

P.M. came down to see over the flood.

C.M had to come out the cell to suit.

We will vote the C.M. to power again.

Slaves as we are, we will not retaliate.

03.12.2015

(P.M = Prime Minister of India; C.M. = Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu)

The helpless Lord ^

Lord! How can you be fair

 In deciding a dispute

Between me and the rulers,

From whom comes your salary?

Lord! How can you be sure

Of implementation

Of verdict against rulers

Who have to implement?

28.11.2015

The Sun and the God

The Sun causes the day break

And also causes it’s end.

God causes all births and deaths.

Both are held in high esteem.

28.11.20115

Good to bad or vice versa

There is nothing bad

That could not become good

Or vice versa.

There is no person bad

That cannot become good

Or vice versa.

28.11.2015

Intolerance in India

 Who said that intolerance grows in India?

India has no intolerance whenever

The party in power takes double standard.

India has no intolerance against

Scam, scandal and corruption at the helm.

India has no intolerance against

Judiciary surprises and cake walks.

India has no intolerance against

Exploitation from schools and medicals.

India has no intolerance against

Gang rapes, thefts and police inaction.

Who said that India has no tolerance?

28.11.2015

Love is nourishment

Don’t tell your love to the one you love most.

Then it will look pretending, and embarrass.

Love must be so subtle as to be observed

By the incumbent, which gives nourishment.

28.11.2015

Women attract each other.

Woman differs in sexual disposition;

Some are straight and some are lesbians

But a bulk is bisexual, which is why

Women form easy company and go in pairs.

28.11.2015

Who keeps who?

  

Who will fence the fence?

Who will shade the tree?

Who will protect shoes?

Who will care mothers?

Who keeps who- God and man?

15.11.2015

Bedroom door is shut.

Seeing you at my yard, I accosted.

Meeting you at my threshold, I talked.

Receiving you in the hall, I chatted.

Letting you in, I gave you a dinner.

Taking it granted that I would consent,

If you enter my bedroom, you’re mistaken.

It doesn’t mean that I was faking love to you

But that my guilt has shut the bedroom door.

15.11.2015

Prayers sedate

Prayers may not grant your wishes,

Remove sorrows or replace losses.

Prayers would sedate violence,

 Instill hopes and enlarge visions.

15.11.2015

The threat of intimacy

Lack of hygiene, laziness and greediness

Are chief factors that stand in the way of

The couple’s physical intimacy

And not the low sexual drives as we presume.

08.11.2015 

Two kinds of energy

Energy is only two kinds;

Potential and kinetic.

Wood is potential energy.

When it burns, it is kinetic.

Siva represents potential.

Shakhty represents kinetic.

Both together make the world,

Speaks, Shiva Cult Hindu Faith.

07.11.2015

Not to eat beef

I don’t eat beef, nor hate who all eat beef.

Hindus don’t eat beef, nor slaughter a cow.

I can visit a mosque and bow my head

By which I shall not cease to be a Hindu.

Not to eat beef is embedded in my genes.

To eat beef is a hard thing to a Hindu.

Not to eat meat is, of course, laudable.

Not to eat beef must also be like that.

07.11.2015

The fate of outcome

Outcomes are inconsistent

In spite of best efforts put.

Some turn good and some, bad.

Outcomes lie beyond our control.

To worry of the outcome

Is a futile exercise.

To struggle with the outcome

Is a fruitless exercise.

To focus on the process

Gives you purpose and interest.

To absorb the unpleasantness

Is the best course of resilience.

07.11.2015

Merit of forgiving

To forgive unasked is a noble thing.

To empty the need of forgiving one

By not taking it an offence is still more.

To do good instead of pardon is much more.

07.11.2015

Faith in luck

Is luck different from chance and fortune?

Is luck a demandable commodity?

It, like a chance, comes unasked and untimed.

It, like fortune, selects one with blind eyes.

Luck rules in gambles and in lotteries.

To be born with a silver spoon is luck.

To beget one who’s got the crown is luck.

To get more than the efforts put is luck.

Luck favours who dares, though not all the time.

Luck is there but not under your control.

Resilience when put in adversities

Is a positive way of courting luck.

To get what you deserve is to be luck

In that it has prevented any lapses.

An amount of luck, good or bad, is there

In what happen to us, unexpected.

06.11.2015

The menace of right

Right to property; right to spouse;

Right to privilege; right to throne;

Right is gained, usurped or denied.

A right is just a born rebel,

Reeking of sedition in wait.

06.1.2015

Idealists, the fortunate

Children live in a world of fantasy.

There happen things according to their wish.

Frail angels save the child from the witches.

God comes down and eliminate demons.

Ideologists live in fantasy.

They expect things according to their wish.

Heroes win heroines’ hand and villains fall.

Truth triumphs; justice prevails; the wicked fall.

Realists believe more in reality.

They hope for the good fear for the worst.

Melodrama, supernatural things,

Superstition and omens will not move them.

Some are idealists; some are realists.

All are sometimes idealists or realists.

The one who is idealist by nature

Is seen to enjoy one’s life a great deal.

06.1.2015