The moving mass

Be they caterpillars or ants,

They move in processional lines,

Each one following the other,

With the same pace and same rhythm

Without minding where they’re led to.

Any mass movement is like that.

So are religious enterprises.

19.03.2013

Knowing is life

One doesn’t know that one sleeps.

One doesn’t know that one’s dead.

On death, one will not know that

One has ever lived at all.

Things will count only till death,

And will be dust to the one dead.

18.03.2013

Love rises and ebbs.

That I take your wish as a command

Will show the depth of love I’ve for you.

That I take your wish as a burden

Will show the ebb of love I’ve for you.

Love is waves that rise up and ebb.

Patience alone can sustain it.

17.03.2013

Must you claim your right?

When you fight for, or claim, your right

You cause the counterpart a loss

And turn blind to the mercy call.

Think twice if the victim is far worse.

16.03.2013

Sheep for shepherd

Customers are an asset.

Clients are an asset.

Devotees are an asset.

They are sheep to their shepherds.

16.03.2013

Faith is lost as wholesale

How to cure has gone

And how to make money has come in.

How to educate has gone

And how to capitalize has come in.

How to serve has gone

And how to exploit has come in.

Faith has been lost as wholesale

And insecurity has set in.

16.03.2013

To stop self-pity

I pity my son, chronically ill,

And, hence, his children with no fortune.

I pity my daughter, a caged bird

And also her son whose love was not paid.

I pity my wife, a cancer patient

When I detected a tumor in me.

Tendency to pity them has gone up

To put a full stop to my self-pity.

08.03.2013