Friday 2 February, 2007

India

She wore a raiment of
so many a hue
An unfamiliar eye would
think she is madness true
Her children are such
multi-flavored stew
This amalgamation of culture
a heady brew
Isn’t man just an outcrop of
the land that his forefathers slew
It’s antiquated history
of blood & beauty knew
A faraway visitor here saw
what man or god could ever do
Now it is time that you & me
blow life & breath anew.
- Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

Thursday 1 February, 2007

Who am I?

How many blows are needed in life for one to know to the very depths that one is nothing, that one can do nothing, that one does not exist, that one is nothing, that there is no entity without the divine Consciousness and the Grace. From the moment one knows it, it is over; all the difficulties have gone. When one knows it integrally and there is nothing which resists... but till that moment... And it takes very long.
- The Mother Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Puducherry

Poet

To clothe the fiery thought
In simple words succeeds,
For still the craft of genius is
To mask a king in weeds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson