Long Puja Poems

                             Brahman Nemesis

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India (Original Poem)

I hear much joy in the music,
View elation in the dance
Feel happiness in the laughter,
Soulful spirit in poetic romance.

I feel love in the language
Swelling in my heart.
Reverence for God and Goddess
In beloved families...

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SECOND part of the translation from Rabindranath Tagore's Poem "CAMELLIA'"


I was on my travel carrying the plant in a pot.
Found out, the co-passenger was not an easy co-traveller,
In a two-compartment vehicle,
I hid the plant in...

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Brief Prelude 
Diwali is a vivacious festival of Lights celebrated in India. It's big revelry time (akin to Christmas). The key symbolic aspect of festivity is lighting of oil lamps all around and indulging in...

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Bhai Phonta is a Bengali Hindu festival, usually celebrated two days after the Kali Puja or Sakti Puja where the sisters mark the foreheads of their brothers with sandalwood paste and pray for their safety,...

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14: If the soul meets death when Sattva prevails, then it goes to the pure regions of those who are seeking truth.
15: If a man meets death in a state of Rajas, he is reborn...

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A fundraiser moment got lit up underneath
I beseach thee, mercy me
Throughout my life, through all my strife
I will shelter thee! My innermost me!
A fundraiser moment got lit up underneath
I beseach thee, mercy me
The yearning of...

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Arohee (one who ascends)


With a sweet,  smiling countenance sat little Aarohee,

Placing a finger on her cheeks, she, aged only three,

Draped in a little sari her mother had made her wear,

She sat in contemplative thought, yet...

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Lines more lunatic than the sun – 9

for her 
who looks most beautiful in red orna
i’m carrying the best wishes of those lilies 
blooming on the iron-grill

When the blue-lotus is becoming more intense 
within the...

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6.	
I pierced the clouds with my fore-finger
And the blood-stain touches my body 
the wind which makes the doors and windows 
open to public view I can’t stare at its eyes
I push the storm towards the...

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India is a land full of festivities,
Lots of relaxation to the Indians surely it gives-
Most of these are ceremony leaves -
Some are due to great men's deeds.

All direction does it cheer-East,West,North,South,
It fills with sweets every...

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We talk only 3 days in a year,
Like a festival that comes once in a year.
That too during Durga Puja,
And the rest 362 or 363 days we barely know each other.
It seems that I not...

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The city, your life is celebrating 
the Durga Puja festival today. 
Fencing four wheelers and busses ... 
A glimpse of the brightest moonlight
'Tilottoma' is there, but 
you are not Sunanda. 
Looking back once again
on every...

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Suraj sa tapta ye roshan savera.....
Taron si bikhri ye kali rat h.....
Koi soye alishaN makano me.... .
Kisi ki chadar ye chandni rat h....
Kaise ye ajab duniya h....
Kaisa ajab insan h......

Khi Bahta h pani yo gande...

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Wearing colorful chaniya choli, 
dancing dandiya, garbha gaily
forgetting all cares and worry
Joyous bliss abounds in Navaratri

Celebrating nine attributes of femininity
knowledge, tranquility, benevolence, dynamism
Vigour, beauty, bravery, creativity, optimism
Navaratri eulogizes primordial cause of creation

Durga Puja, Golu, Saraswati...

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And I-
Beyond the forest, beyond the mind
Came over-
Kandapara’s field
Before the evening puja
In the journey of this path to eternity.

The thought of ending awoke
Immense pressure of urine in the abdomen
Bubbles of words that have sprouted
In the...

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The blue sky with wispy clouds,
And the birds singing aloud,
The autumn season inviting Goddess Durga,
With happiness followed by a five-days Puja.
The milky white beauty of the ''kaash phool'',
Creating a perfect ambiance of the...

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1.Diwali..Festival of lights..
2.Holi..Festival of colours..
3.Krishnashtami..Occassion of the birth of krishna..
4.Sallikattu..Package of coins..
5.Karwa chaut..Women pray for their men..
6.Durga Puja..Worshipping goddess durga..
7.Navaratri..Nine nights..
8.Dussehra..The day of victory..
9.Ram navami..birthday celebration of rama..
10.Ganesh Chaturthi..Ganesh anniversary celebration..
11.Dahi Handi..Pots filled with yogurt..
12.Makar...

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Unfinished Prayers
(Jiboner Jato Puja Holo Na Saara)
By Rabindranath Tagore

The prayers in my life
That remains undone, 
I know within, 
That they were not in vain.

The flowers that have fallen
Before they could bloom,
The rivers that have lost...

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Near the river,children,
newly married women,
neighbours and relations
neatly dressed, wear threads on
necks, men wear threads on wrists
Next aarti's shown, to greet
Nation's pride Cauvery 

Note:
 South Indians rely on River Cauvery for the irrigated agriculture.Since the river...

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The puja festival was just over;
Happiness was still alive;
Days were going fair-
And bees murmur still charmed the hives.

Four days to go to Diwali-
Time was outruning curiosity;
The lights were about to lightened -
But there was a...

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