Renunciation & Summa Iru
While I will continue to do the work for Vidya and GSR, for all practical purposes, know that I will be more or less dead to this world, pursuing the Truth by “Being Still”.
It is time I walked the talk after my nearly 50-year dedication to understanding Advaita Vedanta.
Tired
Sitting here in Arunachaleswara temple
Catching a ride within a few minutes
To that famous Ashram here
Where resided that rare personage,
Tired, tired, tired I am
Tired of this world
Tired of relationships
Tired of society and its happenings
Tired of the scientific pursuits
Tired of social media FOMO
Tired of all promises of happiness
Tired above all else
Of my own self
And its blind living
Its foolhardy pursuits
Its ignorant trishna for life.
Mental Darshan/Vision of Ramana Maharshi
I had a Mental Darshan/Vision of the face of the Maharshi when I was in the New Meditation Hall at Sri Ramanasramam, when I was immersed in contemplating about the various aspects of life in general.
The Maharshi’s face “flashed upon the inward eye” to put it in the Wordsworthian sense, “which is the bliss of solitude”.
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“I may not have reached the destination, but I have traveled far from where I started in my mother’s womb.”
“I sometimes wonder if I am on the autism spectrum.”
On Love
Every love can be a prison
That cages the soul.
Every love can be a limitation
On all that you can be.
Every love can still liberate
The lover and the loved.
Every love can be a cocoon
Turning caterpillar to butterfly.
But what exactly love is
Who knows, not the poets too.
Why I Did Not Want to Go for the Darshan in Tirupati
Who has to have whose Darshan?
I am having the Darshan of God every nanosecond because this world is not independent of God.
And, I am, nay all of us are, never out of the sight of God.
This whole universe is the actual temple and we all are the idols in it.
Rest all what happens in the name of temples is just kaarobaar, including the worship of the idol by the priest.
But as it turns out, in the end I did go and have the Darshna in Tirupati because I did not want to leave a sense of incompleteness in my friends’ minds with whom I was travelling.
“Only two ways to realize the Truth: Either understand that this whole world is nothing but His forms, including our body-mind, OR reject this world, including our body-mind, and dwell in that stillness.”
Ye Chota Gaanchina Neevundu Vandune
The devotee climbs the Seven Hills
Yet finds Him not though He is there too
We will find Him only when
Like Hafiz we can write that
“[We] are freed
Of every concept and image
[Our] mind has ever known.”
Know Thyself 