Sutra 14 from The Holy Science
...“Purusha is covered by five koshas or sheaths.”
~ extract from ‘The Holy Science’
Forged from the elements, our form is dust,
enlivened by spirit, the breath of God,
layered by our l...
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purusha, spiritual,
Form: Quatrain
Sutra 7-10 from The Holy Science
...“Chitta, the spiritualized Atom, in which Ahamkara (the idea of separate existence of Self) appears, has five manifestations (aura electricities).
They (the five aura electricities) constitute...
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Categories:
purusha, spiritual,
Form: Sonnet
Across Realms
...Purusha, the consciousness, and prakriti, the matter,
Like glass vessels in the basket of existence clatter;
Beyond corporal, cerebral, and emotional realms,
To Spiritual reality the consciousness...
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Categories:
purusha, creation, death, life, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Maya
...Oh Maya, you are so cute and beautiful,
Dancing like a damsel around me.
I came here with a definite hope,
Of winning you without a delay.
Oh Maya, showing your softness and grace,
You delude ...
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Categories:
purusha, desire, philosophy, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
The Punisher and the Punished
...The Punisher and the PunishEd
I
The Punisher needs the Punishéd to punish
(Will anyone argue this point)
That is: Who will the Punisher punish
If He had no-one ...
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Categories:
purusha, conflict, creation, god, men,
Form: Free verse
Villanelle: No Man Can On His Own Escape Written Fate, For Thiru-Valluvar
...Villanelle: No man can on his own escape written fate
For Thiru-Valluvar, the “nameless” author of
the THIRUK-KURAL
Note: In my previous posts, especially on Canto 38, I had expou...
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Categories:
purusha, beauty, character, creation, god,
Form: Villanelle
Niitthaar Perumai, the Fundamental Role of the Ascetic: Canto 3, K29 and K30 of the Thirukkural
...Niitthaar Perumai, The Fundamental Role of the Ascetic: Canto 3, K29 and K30 of the Thirukkural by Thiruvalluvar
(In these kurals, I give both the "unrefined" versions using connective particles ...
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Categories:
purusha, dedication, devotion, spiritual, tamil,
Form: Epigram
Niitthaar Perumai, the Fundamental Role of the Ascetic, Canto 3 of the Thirukkural By Thiruvalluvar
...Niithaar Perumai, the Fundamental Role of Ascetics, Canto 26 of the Thirukkural, the Tamil Classical Treatise on Ethics, Translation and Commentary by T. Wignesan
[Given the scarcity of info...
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Categories:
purusha, education, humanity, life, philosophy,
Form: Epigram
Villanelle: the Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 53
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Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent – 53
Must appearance differ from reality
In as much as front and back of the same body
To negate existence in non-duality
Being the non-existen...
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Categories:
purusha, nature, philosophy, riddle, violence,
Form: Villanelle
The Exile
...for Prithwin
first
left downstroke
start from the top
plane out
let the long anchor tip roof-line curve sharply upwards
at the stern down-end
pile it in stuffed in the centre
leave the bot...
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Categories:
purusha, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Our Country-Earth Which Is of Your Size
...Notre terre qui est à Votre taille
Forgive us please our enormous bilious hubris
The quasar-lit heavens smile only down upon us
For Our Master he presideth over the Universe
Our Architect-F...
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Categories:
purusha, faith, satire, november, universe,
Form: Light Verse