SUBHASHITAM

2011-11-13T09:16:00.000-08:00

As destined.....
The doctor exclaimed
as I was delivered..
from my mother's womb ..
where I grew protected.

Flowers received,
Blessings showered,
Train of life boarded...
As destined.....

Fumbling all the way,
Fighting the odds to live,
Couple of attempts succeeded,
Galore of them failed
As destined.....

Walking the labyrinthine corridors of religions,
In search of God who lays claim on my destiny,
Trying to align and not to be an alien,
Questioning everything but not in mutiny....
With the ' I ' which is me,
With an eye unable to see ' ME ',
Gasping to HIS roll and pitch,
Searching colours for my ' unfinished ' sketch,
In this unending saga of ' Lives ' ....
As destined......

Some ' learned ' changed Gods ,
To a better ' Author ' of better ' Destiny ',
Trying to figure which God for what destiny,
Stung by the very thought ...
Aghast I am driven......probably,
As destined.

2011-07-12T08:44:00.000-07:00

It was so absorbing,

I felt it amazing,

every turn...

every hike...

the abyss and

the hill alike...

glorified numerous times..

thrashed as worthless dimes..

I kept walking,

to attend my final ritual,

with some crying ...

some chatting as usual,

as I passed the race..

with my whatever pace,

the jury hugged and started inquiring,

was it relaxing or tiring,

I smiled......

as I know....

Another race ready to run...

Another bout being planned to be done.

2009-10-21T09:24:00.000-07:00

Its there I thought
and will be there I presumed
the dream castles of life.....mine
and as the wheels of time cruised
crushing and dismantling
the dream castles
sullenly I stood
still ignorant
still unwilling
to know the inevitable
Befall the sky I thought
I'll reclaim and regain
what went crushed.....
to my dismay soon ....
the time wheel ...
made its appearance at my very door step
with a charriot attached behind
and oh dear.....
I gave in...
and the next.....
I was resting in the charriot
ready to be taken to new fields...
for a new role...
to build a new dream castle..
OF LIFE.....ELSEWHERE...

2009-08-02T04:59:00.000-07:00

ఎరుక లేని వాడి సంత
ఏలే వాడికేరుక
పడకేక్కేంత దాక
పట్టదు కదా వాడి చింత
రంగుటద్దాలలో చూస్తూ
రక్త మాంసాల బరువు పెంచుతూ
తలదన్నే వాడు లేడని వీగుతున్న
ఈ తంతు ఒక వింత

రామ రామ అను చోటికి రామ్ రామ్ అనుకుని
కలిలో కలుస్తవేం అన్ని కాదనుకొని
భారం తనేదని
నడుపుతున్న విభుని
నమ్మి నడుచు వాడె కదా గుణదని
ఒకింత సంభాలించు అన్ని పక్కనపెట్టి
అనంతరూపుని ధ్యానించు ఇప్పుడైనా శ్రద్ధపెట్టి.

2009-08-02T04:51:00.000-07:00

నాకు తెలిసిన నేను
నన్ను తెలిసిన లోకానికి చూపలనుకుంటున్నాను
ఈ గాలి తిత్తి నుండి
సంకేత స్వరాలు పంపాలని ప్రయత్నిస్తున్నాను
దగ్ధమవుతున్న ధార్మికతను
అశ్రుధారలతో అర్ప తలపోస్తున్నాను
కలి గాలి ధాటికి కూలుతున్న సంస్కార సౌధాలను
కడ ఊపిరితో కాపాడ ప్రయత్నిస్తున్నాను
నిశీధి పొరలను చీల్చే
ఓంకార కిరణ కణంగా మారి
ఆ తమఘ్న విభు కొలువులో
దివ్యజ్యోతిగా అర్పితమౌతను.

2008-01-13T07:26:00.000-08:00

We Indians started this Year with a new theme.

EVE TEASING..CRIME AGAINST WOMEN.

Surprisingly this marvelous credit goes to the most civilised cities (as we call them), ie, our very own metros.

Seldom a day passed, in this new year, without a case of molestation or an attempt to rape or a rape.

Not even the visitors are spared, ie, our foreign friends who are on a visit to explore the "great tradition, culture and values " of our country.

Are we a sex starved nation?..asked a newspaper in its headlines..

Is this the way we treat our sisters and mothers?

We belong to a great nation and are all set to be the global superiors soon.
What we need is the strong and broad shoulders of our youth with their 'heads' well balanced on their shoulders.
Lets always remember the fact that "where women are respected Gods descend to make it their abode".

2008-01-13T07:18:00.000-08:00

New Year 2008...

New Resolutions..
So many parties ..
overlaps of christmas and sankranti..
shoppings..tours..travel..
exhibitions..displays..
new releases..new faces..
bull runs..sport bashes..

I know many such things are 'in place' to keep us all busy.

Have a blast.

I will pray for you all.

May this new year bring PEACE, PROSPERITY, HEALTH, WEALTH AND SUCCESS to all of you.

May God be with you.
Good Luck.

2007-03-09T07:55:00.000-08:00

Mr. Soumen Bramhachary..
A mechanical Engineer from IIT Kharagpur..
A spiritual and management Guru..
It was a great experience to have met him today..
His discourse on stress management and Bhagavadgita is one of the best discourse i have heard.
A simple reality narrated by him about Gita is...
Gita has 18 chapters.. can be depicted in the form of an equilateral triangle..
1-6 chapters (the base of triangle) speaks of disengagement..
7-12 chapters (one side of the triangle) speaks of attainment of wisdom with help of wise men..
13-18 chapters (another side of the triangle) speaks of action..with the attained wisdom.
It was an enriching experience for me to have met a great knowledgeable speaker in him.

2007-03-09T07:54:00.000-08:00

Silence is often misconstrued........
A pause in your speech.........
breaks the bridge of understanding...........

2007-02-12T07:02:00.000-08:00

Surrounded by circumstances,
Rained by situations,
Blown,thrown,.....
jailed and robbed...
this fire...
destined to burn bright and light up the world...
gets extinguished.

2007-02-01T09:17:00.000-08:00

When we reach the "HOME"..
A fresh set of dice would be thrown on the face of this life's LUDO..
directing us to take the new path for a new job..
Thus life goes on..
We need to do our duty to the hilt and rest will fall in its place as "designed".

2007-01-14T07:50:00.000-08:00

A year has passed..
and, as usual..
with few landmarks..
few highs..few lows..
few news.. and with curtains to some old..
some acheivements noteworthy.. few deaths/killings/executions blameworthy..
some flights to space and moon..some interrupted due to fog and so on..
few elected..few selected..
few deposed and some exposed..
some worthy winnings..some hopeless losses..
some bull races..some investment dances..
many gimmicks..some utmost frauds..
and the bottomline still remains ,as usual, the same..

For God sake..do good and at the least be a human.

Happy New Year.

2006-06-01T06:02:00.000-07:00

Reservations....as our constitution makers have visualized that a quota of reserved seats to the oppressed class namely scheduled castes and scheduled tribes in educational institutions would ensure education to all and will help cut down the parity between the forward classes (definition of which has to get a relook as it got totally mauled as per the malign intentions of a few, should we say, leaders of backward classes) and the oppressed and thus improve the literacy rate. But, this was done to uplift the education standards of the oppressed illiterate sections of society which were backward due to lack of education.
However, the short term measure seems to have taken the fascination of the political and policy makers who slowly and gradually amended the structure of constitution and made reservations par fundamental rights.
These groups of leaders are so “charismatic” that they have succeeded in convincing the so 'labeled' scheduled classes and tribes that they are inferior citizens and at no point of time can match the intelligence or caliber of so called ‘forward classes’.
The irony is,these people are convinced that they are not fit and without reservation they cannot match the intelligent forward class.
Thanks to these leaders for admitting that they do not want intelligence and of course, to win a policy making seat, i.e., MP/MLA seat, it is the votes which are required and, definitely not intelligence.
I pity the populace of India which are so openly degraded by their own leaders and this makes me envy the countries like the USA, who are reaping rich due to the migration of intelligent and meritorious brains of our country. I pity my brethren who are branded as low class by their own leaders and with their willingness. Even if there be established many a institutes of various disciplines only for the backward classes, does it in anyway mean or say that those getting educated in these colleges will not be called backward classes. So, it means to say that though our leaders make these reservations at par with fundamental rights by amending our constitution(in which amendments constitute a bigger volume than the original work), and rise the quotas to 100%, still, this section of population will be called backward class(remember, not by default or oppression, but by their own willingness).
What good these reservations are, when people make it a means of earning.
What good these reservations are, when they cannot still get parity between classes since last 50 years.
What good these reservations are, when the so called backward classes feel proud of being called backward and are willing to remain so for want of facilities provided under the garb of reservation.
Have we progressed any miniscule distance ahead on these terms or are we planning to count our strides on basis of merit.
Can we afford to undermine merit?
Though our youth is highly qualified, intelligent, they are haunted by reservations in education and job opportunities. Imagine a boy getting rejected in a job despite getting 90% marks in academics and another with 35% gets the job because of reservation, which eventually leads these young boys with merit,to go and serve in a different country where merit is appreciated and valued. (And our ministers talk about brain drain).
Haven't we reached a point in time where we can completely do away with reservations?

2006-02-01T06:42:00.000-08:00

Mr Vishnu Priya Sharma an enterprising young man who is a bundle of knowledge ..talk from ants to appollo13, J krishnamurthy to Jinnah..football to fiction..elementary to engineering..
he has it all..and..
he introduces me to the literature of Mr J Krishnamurthy which is so realistic and practical..

Mr Srikanth another very enterprising young man..witty and worthy..
who enlightened me with the Greatness of Sri Sri Ramana Maharshi..His ways..

and ofcourse my new acquaintance, call her blue white gold, flickering flame..or shruthi(as my wife tells me) a brilliant, knowledgeable young lady with an urge to learn..
.....thus started my New Year,

with such magnificent people ahead of me; I find it so inspiring to have known them and I pray, may this year be Great for them and may God give me that wisdom and knowledge to be at the same plane as they are.

2006-02-01T06:34:00.000-08:00

Today I tried again to take control of things ..
to create ..
to be ..
and to matter..
and God laughs at me..
i realise that I am no one..but that God's painting..
I am just an observer to his doings..
oh God, I acknowledge it..
In You I abide..

2006-01-31T06:10:00.000-08:00

'A Generation Awakens' says the caption of a film..
Aamir Khan, Madhavan and some noted film stars are moving all around the country to promote the film..
Ashfakullah khan, Ram Prasad Bismil revisited..
the search to find Azaads and Bhagat Singhs in our youth..
the nationalists, the patriots, in our colleges..
And then above all those magnificent men of uniform who lay their lives at the feet of this Great Nation..
for us to live..
"Hai liye hathyaar dushman tak me baitha udhar..
Aur hum tayyar hai seene liye apnaa idhar..
khoon se khelenge holi gar watan mushkil mein hai..
sarfaroshi ki tammanna ab hamare dil mein hai.."

Standing guard, these dare devils in uniform are no lesser than National heroes..
the youth, you and I, revisited, as true nationalists..
At last the light appears in the lighthouse..
Bhagat Singhs are also born in our houses..
Should I say 'Khalbali'..
or 'lose control'..
or 'be a rebel'..
or..
Hey friends, come lets Rang de Basanti.

2006-01-28T20:36:00.000-08:00

Happy New Year. Hey its been three weeks plus, infact we may say a month has passed and here is white devil, after a month, wishing you all a wonderful New Year. May everyone of you attain glory in your chosen fields. May all your New year resolutions come true and may you achieve all the goals you have set for yourself.

With a lot of resolutions, with many expectations, retrospectin our past, predicting our future, my friends, many of us have moved into this New year closing the diary of last year. New diary, fresh pages waiting to be filled, appointments lying there to take us to places, opportunities hidden for us to search and grow big, may be from a diary to an organiser and subsequently a laptop, planners for us to plan and destiny for us to decide. Many things in store and with expectations galore we move into this wonderful new phase.... a brand NewYear 2006. God Bless you all with success, peace, prosperity, health and wealth....Good Luck.

2005-11-20T04:54:00.000-08:00

ODE TO FORCE

Many unsung, mostly forgotten,many many fallen.....here stand our heroes humble,with heads square on their able and strong shoulders with many victories at their feet. Men in uniform fighting terror, natural calamities, wars, their social status, their family problems and many....all with broad smiles on their faces, they take pride of being in the family of olive green. These bravados, these gladiators are up standing there right on the line of danger, in the very line of fire...24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year...come hail, come storm, bullets or shells...they stand.....these magnificent men stand upright.....there....to meet hell or heaven, devil or death, head on looking into the eyes of the enemy who is set to breach the walls of our country and crush them to dust. " Tan mein Vindhyachal ka bal hai, mann mein Tajmahal hai.....", said a poet referring to these daredevils. These epitomes of sacrifice lay down their lives without a word on their lips and thought in their mind for their love towards their fellow countrymen and for our motherland.But then,the old man's saying goes" Gods and Soldiers are only remembered in time of need. Once need is fulfilled and danger conquered, Gods are forgotten and soldiers slighted." Hey friends, remember, " when you go back to your homes, tell the people that we gave our today for your tomorrow" says our epitaph. Do bow down your heads once a year for these impeccable valiant superheroes.
WE DESERVE IT....Don't we?

2005-11-20T04:46:00.000-08:00

'A HERO IS SOMEONE WE CAN ADMIRE WITHOUT APOLOGY......'
Please comment.

2005-11-12T05:29:00.000-08:00

His world..He walked with me:

And then we walked together, through the narrow lanes of this world watching people trying to jail the Almighty, people fighting for superiority, some ruling the world, some serving and everyone blaming another and not at the least sparing Him.

We walked together..watching the calamities, mother nature's unnatural cruelities, uncontrollable havoc and unleashing epidemics cutting the size and fate of human race.

We walked together.. watching the divisions in humanity, their castes and religions, their breeds and greeds, their science and conscience, their wealth and health, their intelligence and ignorance.

We walked together.. watching holy books, holymen, maharishis, popes, peers and paigambars trying to spread their words as words of God sometimes and trying to be God themselves most of the times.

We walked together....as He laughed.

2005-11-12T05:25:00.000-08:00

Hey friends i visited Shantiniketan yesterday. Stay tuned for some interesting things of the visit in my next post

2005-11-12T05:12:00.000-08:00

Tagore says:

Where the mind is without fear,
and the head is held high,
where knowledge is free,
where the world is not broken up,
into fragments by narrow domestic walls,
where words come out from depth of truth,
where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection,
where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way,
into the dreary detest sand of dead habit,
where the mind is led forward by thee,
into ever widening thought and action,
into that heaven of freedom, my Father,
let my country awake.

2005-11-05T06:15:00.000-08:00

THE BHAGAVAD GITA SAYS THUS.......
The man dwelling on sense objects develops attachments for them, from attachment springs up desire and from desire ensues anger, from anger arises infatuation, from infatuation arises confusion of memory, from confusion of memory arises loss of reason, from loss of reason one goes to complete ruin.

He who has not controlled his mind and senses can have no reason; nor can such an indisciplined man think of GOD.... The unthinking man can have no peace; and how can there be happiness for one lacking peace of mind.

2005-10-22T19:00:00.000-07:00

What next?

On the road side under a tree, I saw a crowd surrounding a man who was sitting on a pavement. He was having some cards and a cage, may be housing a parrot or a rat or whatever...., I enquired around and found that he foretells the future and the crowd around was waiting for their turn to find out "What Next?" in their lives. The crux of restlessness in people's lives-'what next? ' A new entry into world ..'what next?' studying in school..'what next?' finished education..'what next?'...Ultimately, I feel this question only seems to cease after we lay in peace waiting for this very body to be burnt or buried.... oh..oh..hold on.. Its still on..the soul will be searching ....what next?
So, next can be seen and attended to...next...but look into this wonderful present in which we are at present....this is the "present" God gifted us with .....lets not waste it ....calculating as to "what next"?

2005-10-07T20:35:00.000-07:00

SMILE....AS U R OF NO CONSEQUENCE

Its really ridiculous to observe how small conversations with words of no consequence become an issue of contention and robs peace and harmony in our lives. Small words raise a storm. Sometimes, words which are uttered without any wrong intentions tend to go against us.Though we sport a smile on our face ,people see a frown. And at times, 'coz of all these, we tend to get little disturbed and lose our sleep. But then, as I have observed, thats the way things are in this "instant coffee and fast food" world. The world tends to see you as a dynamic doll with a pasted smile on your face all life..... Hang on, there is a reason for us to smile at everything.... still... you are ridiculed, you are frowned at, you are seen as a clown of harsh temperment, or when you are accused of having a wrong intention despite you having none, people call you a fretter which thrashes down your cheerful countenance... SMILE...smile first at yourself 'coz of the adjectives attached to your persona by people...then smile at the person who is on a mud slinging spree against you for his immaturity.....smile for the people....smile 'coz its your health...by frowning or by taking upto an argument, you are subjecting yourself to unwanted stress and strain.... why have you got to take pain for the indecency and stupidity of other people ........
smile friend....'coz we are free...smile 'coz we are democratic...
smile 'coz all damage is done by the people who fail to understand you and your intentions; hence their allegations should be of least consequence....smile for the people, 'coz they are ailing and need support from you....smile 'coz you happen to be one of these people....'coz have you not done this to someone sometime.....

2005-10-04T06:06:00.000-07:00

THE FORGOTTEN LEADER
Oct 2nd.......Birth anniversary of Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri ( Has he any awards/recognition?..... if no, then has it become so difficult for us Indians to recognise him and remember him?)

On 2nd October 2005, the newspapers filled their spaces with articles on one and only Mahatma Gandhi. Children all over the country were made to stand in schools and roadsides near statues of the Mahatma to commemorate his birth anniversary. All noted dignitaries of the country and abroad showered the best of their compliments.

I feel great about my people, my country.

2005-09-24T08:07:00.000-07:00

Queries unanswered.....

There are a lot of questions to be answered a lot of questions to be searched for and a lot of questions to be asked. answers sometimes seem to elude me. Sometimes it seems as if i have reached a dead end and there is nothing to look further .. as if its a question with no answer at all.
I heard of great people saying that all answers lie in our ownself. It seems, its only we who can help ourselves. But to me, sometimes, it appears as if there is no next link and I am sailing in mid ocean with no signs of land anywhere.
The Forces acting upon us physical, mental, external, internal, psychological, emotional, Divine or satanic...I donot know what all and where all, as the list seems to be quite long, have so much of power and force that they drive us to the destinations they desire. I have always lost the battle with these forces.
Lack of will power say some, no determination say some... but then the question still remains as to what are these forces, why am I unable to delink or lead an independent life away from them? Who is this GOD? My past karmas....?My present life doings...? What....?
How on this earth things seem to be out of control to me of my own life. Who is having the remote of my life's program? And how nicely this unknown interferes in my life and walks away with what he/she or it wants. How come my own life becomes a mystery to my ownself? I wonder what to say either to ridicule or to get amused?
Many a times I am shocked.........Many a times I am rocked ........but still to my surprise life goes on..........My boat sails on...........So many questions to be asked.............So many queries to be answered.........

2005-09-24T07:57:00.000-07:00

Heard this..

'One should lift oneself by one's own efforts and should not degrade oneself; for one's own self is one's friend, one's own self is one's own enemy.'