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Category: My Poems

The Uncertainty of It All


I wish I had the certainty of a loverThat his beloved is it. I wish I had the certainty of … More

Addiction, Life, Love, Meditation, Money, Poem, Poetry, Uncertainty

The Repetitions Called Life


How many things we repeatDay after dayAlmost untiringly;This constant needTo keep replenishingAmidst this evanescence,Never questioning;How mysterious?

Life, Poem, Poetry, World

The Paradox


God sent us hereOn this earthTo be human(and humane?). But we are anxiousTo get to heavenTo be Godlike. We forgetTo … More

Being Human, Heaven, Humaneness, Kingdom on earth, Poem, Poetry

Four Poems


Half-Hearted LivingTime rolls on, unmindfully,While I engage with my dilemmasOn what I should doOr not do, in this world,A world … More

Advaita, Philosophy, Poem, Poetry, Ten Commandments

My Last Post Here & Everywhere Else


I cast off my moorings And set sail In silence In silence In silence…

Poem, Poetry

Sam Upanishad


They know notBig Bang, they sayAn unproven theoryWho knows how it beganAnd what was there or notBefore it began. Forms … More

Advaita, Brahman, Change, God, Metaphysics, Nonduality, Ontology, Philosophy, Poem, Poetry, Sam Upanishad, Self, Upanishad, World

A Long Story Short (My Autobiography)


I was born.God knows why. I am living.God knows how. I will die.God knows when.

Autobiography, Life, Poem, Poetry

The Mirage Within a Mirage


This thirst for richesThis thirst for loveThis thirst for powerThis thirst for nameThis thirstThis unquenchable thirstUnslakable it seemsEncountering as one … More

Desire, Longing, Maya, Poem, Poetry, World

What is This ‘I’: The Social Self


This life that we can’t live alone Be we married or not We who need so many others Lest we start … More

Companionship, Loneliness, Poem, Poetry, Social Self, Socializing, Society

“Agar Paisa hi Sub Kuch Hota…” — Upon Watching “Life in a … Metro”


Lekin pyar bhi sub kuch nahi hota Look at all the lovers in this world Whether married or not Whose … More

Breakup, Divorce, Love, Lovers, Marriage, Poem, Poetry, Unrequited love

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