Long Rajas Poems

Thiru-Valluvar on Praising the Good Qualiities of Ladies: Canto 112 - Nalam Pinainththu Uraiththal

[The poet devotes the third part of his treatise, the Thiruk-Kural to INBATHTHUPPAAL, the amorous relationship between the sexes, i.e.,  cantos...

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On the sixth day of the waxing moon
In the sixth month*, there is a boon
Mother Durga comes to her father’s home
On top of the Himalayan dome  
   
She is the epitome of...

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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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II

for Thodti trailing barefeet his dried coconut-stick broom on cracked macadam
in the gutter festering oozing fresh month-old drying turds urine remains of fed-up banana-leaves skins withered jasmine garlands drained motor-oil from scooter-taxis overfed flies lean...

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". . . Do egoic fears & desires agitate
Or heart throbs with bliss sublime . . . "
                ...

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Shifting into silence, letting go of lower mind
Hitherto ego bound attention seems unfettered
We wonder what delightful pastures it will find
Intuitively going where rose petals are scattered

Meditational attention, poised without anticipation
Yet retains in the background a...

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Life is consciousness 
All encompassing 
In each realm
That is

Upon earth
Related to man
In the third density
Vital life breath is love

Love employs no force
Allows us to choose
From Gunas* three
Our life path

At the bottom
Tamas or stupor
Feels separate, inert...

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An Englishman lost in afternoon tea,
Memories of a lotus flower love
Rajas and elephants in Delhi
Livingstone the explorer
Religion to convert

Laurence of Arabia
A leader of men
The Boers and the Zulus
Gordon and Khartoum
These are the things that shook...

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Core of consciousness 
Self aware awareness
Absorbed in the flow of attention
In enabled spectrum of vibration 
Wherein we are alive & present
Through mind & body cognisant

There are three frequency bands
In the continuum where we stand
Satva &...

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God or Sat being the only true substance
Choicelessly chooses to manifest existence 

Dividing Himself into two by His creativity
Creating thus a pulse manifested as polarity 

The pulse the word the outpouring being Ohm
Wherefrom arose the...

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viewing an object of desire
immersion in materiality
losing ourself therein
slave to the senses
lustful passions rising
our thirst keeps deepening
correspondent to indulgence
poised yet as an animated thought
heart awaiting actual fulfilment 
wherefrom we gradually shift
our attention into the void
smiling...

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Tamas
I began in my mother's womb  where darkness clothed me
still carrying taste of death upon my tongue I suckled and kicked free
there were dancing lights and tears in the Universe gathering me to life...

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The Gunas three, both boon and bane
For without rest, we'll go insane
Rajas, the cauldron of desire
Whilst Sattva, sunshine in the rain

Propelled through life until we tire
Seems without cause, we did perspire
Whence heart is still, voids...

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The Gunas three twirl us around
Hemmed in, all we may do is to respond 
In waking, dream and deep sleep states
Mindful not to trauma bond

Tamas or sloth, a measure of our instinct
Stupor and inertia bogs...

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This practice asks us to get to the root
Of everything ... forsooth!

We meditate 
Contemplate
Shifting from gross to subtle
Layer by layer cognition spherical 
Until we get to the subtlest
Rarified ... finest

For instance if we take matter
We...

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The Gunas three, twirl us around
Sattva, Rajas, Tamas
Rapturous bliss, in each state found
Love and light, our compass

Slow down the pendulum
Of this here body prism
Tranquil continuum 

Duality
The Gunas three

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The Gunas three - all become one
When fears...

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