States are sadists.

To smoke cannabis will not harm others.

To go liqueur addict will not harm others.

To go to prostitutes will not harm others.

To watch porn materials will not harm others.

To drive without a helmet will not harm others.

States are sadist to punish them who do these.

07.08.2015

Patty is going to die.

Patty, you died fifty years ago

Away when you were in your nineties.

Even now you live in me in my seventies.

With me you will die, not seen by my heirs.

07.08.2015

(Patty means great-grandmother in Tamil)

Who is the saint?

No foot prints left by me be preserved.

No monuments in my name be erected.

No need of keeping me in memory.

He is the saint who dies with these notions.

07.08.2015

Kisses blend well.

A Lover’s kiss is into the lips

 of the beloved, passionate.

A mother’s kiss is on the cheeks

of the child, affectionate.

A person’s kiss is on the palms

of the known, friendly

A devotees’ kiss is on the feet

 of the God, reverent.

Kiss has tremendous power

In communication.

06.08.2015

Don’t borrow power.

Wrapped in a tiger’s skin,

A cow spread terror around.

Betrayed with the skin torn,

It was beaten to death.

06.08.2015

Not as pure though

Nectar is to the honeybee;

It makes it honey that you rob.

Truth is to the first knower.

He makes it a fact that you get.

Honey and facts are not as pure.

06.08.2015

The State as a terminator

You have no right to kill yourself

But the State has right to kill you.

The state can hang you for the crime,

The rarest of the rare to the judge.

The State can send you to the war,

Where you lay life as a martyr.

The State can otherwise kill you

In a war collateral act.

The State can also shoot you dead

freely in an encounter case.

The State can let loose law ‘nd order

So that you can be killed and robbed.

The State can be insensitive

To frequent  custodial  deaths.

You have no right to kill yourself

When beset by terminal ills.

The State has power to kill you

Or cause you die against your will.

05.08.2015

Surveillance society

Consensual sex outside the wedlock

Is prohibitive and a taboo with a stigma

In the regressive and repressive cultures

Of which the Hindu and India are the ones.

In the presence of moral police force

And the threats of stringent repercussions,

Pornography websites are the outlets.

Banning them is regressive and repressive.  

He who watches one stalking a woman

Himself is equaling to a stalker.

Indian Government is not to be

A stalker with a sadist tendency.

05.08.2015

Eyes taken are not yours.

 I cannot see with my eyes

Donated to someone, on death.

Only the donor is made to see.

A man performs from his brain

And not from any other organs.

 04.08.2015

Parental curse

What would you think of the woman

Who stopped his son doing a help

To her father, that would deprived him

Some expenditure on that score?

How could he have digested it?

He disowned her to die away.

04.08.2015

A ladder

Being a ladder, you must bear treading;

Being an iron nail, you must bear hitting.

Being a vessel, you must bear wetting.

A teacher is proud of his students up.

03.0.2015

Falls bring wakes.

The anxiety of life

Is to fall seven times

If to wake up eight times.

Destiny of life

Is to fall eight times

And wake up seven times.

03.08.2015

Growing the ego

Ego is a plant that you must water

When it’s young, prune when branching too many,

Top when growing taller and thin its roots

When old and heavy, to complete t he life

03.08.205

Gulebakavali (Tamil Cinema)

Do not love a girl; you might end in jail.

She might turn it a rape and call police

If she wants to settle a score with you.

Don’t marry a girl; you might land in jail.

She might turn it as dowry harassment

If she wants to settle a score with you.

Indian laws are in favour of woman,

Thanks to the patriarchal society.

Matriarchy system may take that place.

03.08.2015  

Exercise for meditation

Mind is not at rest even in a sleep.

Mind engages itself through sense organs

And other times it travels on the paths

Trodden or oversees the paths in front.

Man’s memory and imagination

Are responsible for recollections

Of the past full of pride, pain and regrets

And for imagination full of hopes and fears.

Responses to the perceptions obtained

Are the stock on which mind webs its structure

And travels faster than the light, to dash.

Giving the mind rest is the rest to the brain.

Giving rest to the mind is meditation.

Forgetting about the stimuli around

And refusing to think past and future,

Is the exercise for meditation.

03.08.2015

Love does not tire.

I find happiness in desiring you

Without an expectation of your love.

I find happiness in falling for you

Even in the absence of responses.

I find happiness in pursuing you

With the hope that you would relent for me.

Hope is there as long as you don’t reject.

Love is there as long as hope is alive.

In case hope is lost and love is turned down,

The happiness undergone can’t be taken

Umpteen number of failures in love

Kills not the spirit for a new love born.

03.08.2015

Pursue tasks for happiness.

You need a person to play tennis game.

You need a person to fall in love with.

You need to compete to get an object.

In all, your happiness depends on others.

Pursue not a person or an object.

You can swim, read or play music yourself.

You can love yourself and groom yourself.

In all, your happiness depends not on others.

02.08.2015

Convicts weigh more than victims.

Two hundred were scared dead in a bomb blast.

One was hanged for that after two decades.

The people felt for his mother ailing.

What about the mothers of two hundreds?

The convict survived victims for two decades.

The latest weigh heavier than the past heavy.

02.08.2015

Can air bring my life?

Air is everywhere and enters my lungs

To keep me alive. Once the breath is lost,

No amount of air, however best pumped in,

Cannot activate lungs to restore my life.

02.0.2015

Ritual religions

Rituals are rites marked by a religion.

When a religion becomes ritualistic

It means that the religion is almost dead.

To be ritual is to be customary.

 To be spiritual is not to be ritual.

We love when we feel and not as a rite.

We must pray when we feel as we like.

Dispense with rites to focus on prayers.

02.08.2015

Givers are fortunate.

To sing is more a pleasure than to hear.

To dance is more a pleasure than to watch.

To write is more a pleasure than to read.

Givers enjoy more than the receivers.

Man is a giver and woman is receiver.

He, therefore, derives more sexual pleasure.

02.08.2015

God’s mercy

 God is merciless on two counts.

One is that one is someone’s food.

The other is that males are crazy

For females, who are elusive.

Struggles for food and mate are there.

Life is ridden with anxieties.

01.08.2015

Marriages in filmdom

He and she’d romanced in many movies

For many years and parted to settle.

Her son and his daughter act now in pairs.

Marriage demands more than affinity.

01.08.2015

The most primitive is God.

Focus for God has switched from five elements,

The sun, the moon, the planets and the stars,

Beyond matter and energy and particles,

To the Space, which is God, most primitive.

01.08.2015

Travels of love

 Concern for others is pure that transcends

Ones family, relations- close and distant,

Friends, seekers, the destitute, strangers

And pedestrians, not for a return.

01.08.2015

A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, our last respects

Abdul Kalam, ex-president of India,

Had claimed up his lofty ladder himself

By his dedication and humaneness,

Not by money or political power.

But for he being a Muslim Statesman,

He might not have been chosen for the post

Of President of India by the B.J.P,

That silenced the National Congress’ voice.

He enhanced the post he was elected to.

He was the first Bharat Ratna of India

To become the President of India.

After that he grew equal to a Saint.

The good that he did will not be interred

With his bones in the soil of Rameshwaram,

But will float in the air to inspire the people

Across the world, crossing barriers.

One’s mother, father and the teacher

Only can mould a child to become good.

They must be role models to the children.

Heeding this advice of him, let us pray.

30.07.2015

Patriotism is violence.

When you think about yourself as the one

By the nation, religion, caste or clan,

You make a division between your group

And the rest, which is the base of violence.

29.07.2015 

Verdicts are not truths.

 He is convicted in the court.

It means he is found guilty

And not that he is guilty.

He is acquitted in the court.

It means he is found innocent

And not that he is innocent.

The incumbent only knows it.

The world is ignorant of it.

View not them with the court’s verdicts.

29.07.2015

Outside heat affects inside heat.

The soul, nothing but the consciousness,

Does not have a throne in you to sit on.

It permeates the entire organism,

Animating within each cell of it

Like heat vibrating a thing, say, water.

Heat outside affects the heat inside. 

Likewise the particular environment

Has bearing on the consciousness of the cells.

The body and mind respond to stimuli

And form thoughts and beliefs that affect

And alter the love and hatred feelings

In the consciousness that repair or impair you.

To safeguard you, you must exert due care

In the selection of environment.

29.07.2015.

A saint too is disliked.

M. Karunanithi stands for tamil and Tamils.

Abdul Kalam was a staunch Tamil and true to Tamils.

Tamil was declared as a Refined Language (Chemmozhi)

in a joint sessions of the Parliament and Upper Council.

Abdul Kalam as Indian President there

And incidentally aTamil, declared it.

Later M. Karunanithi commemorated it

By conducting a Tamil Language festival

In Coimbatore with a large attendance.

Abdul Kalam was not invited to the function.

Even a saint will have a person cross to him.

At his death today why must it come to my notice?

Abdul Kalam might not have felt it but I did.

Does it not show that who is in my heart?

27th July, 2015

How long to live

So long as men who know me live,

I shall live even after I die.

So long as I who love you live

You will live though dead you are now.

27.07.2015

How safe her husband!

You are good in bed and share my body.

No place in my heart can I give you, sir.

You are good to irrigate my channel.

No sowing by you; it gets my husband’s.

Such like mentality will be the woman’s

Even when she strays; how safe her husband!

26.07.2015

Merits alone helpless

Relationships developed

And loyalty displayed,

One progresses ahead

Of the meritorious lots,

Who get dispirited

And end up with curses.

26.07.2015

Be as a unit.

Man and woman compare their life partners

With others and notice their shortcomings.

The shortcomings might have no bearings

On their relationships and rather are defended

To the degree to which one views oneself

And one’s partner as a solid unit.

He defends his wife on whom he overlaps.

She defends her husband on whom she overlaps.

25.07.2015

The night to befall

The adulthood is like the day

That is lit with the Sun.

The old age is like the Night

That is lit with the stars.

Being at dusk, welcome the Night

And live through it with its merit.

24.07.2015

Protect the immune system.

Reality distinguished from fantasy,

Conditioned complex dropped in perception,

Hopes implanted and intellect sharpened,

If you live, your immune system is sound.

Thoughts and emotions send a message

To immune system, enhancing or impairing.

Shed away regrets and disappointment.

A rabbit to chase a carrot is spirited.

24.07.2015

He infects no germs.

Who wants this man at his ninety,

With only bone and skin? Left him

All: family, friends and neighbours.

Even germs and virus visit him not.

25.07.2015

Still Other Woman

He is her lover and she lives with him.

They have lived as husband and wife for long.

She was beaten black and blue by him.

She cannot seek any legal remedy.

She cannot claim any share in his earning.

He can dismiss her and walk away

Without any consequence arising.

Woman who lives with a married man

Is the other woman, who is a mistress

Or a concubine, as branded by laws.

She has no marital right whatsoever.

Is woman made equal to man in the law?

24.07.2015

A boon to Indian women

Keeps are no more keeps;

And concubines too.

They’re as good as wives.

Live-in is approved

In place of marriage

By laws that evolve.

24.07.2015

Be it there, though shortly.

One day I will die; be it.

Till that time let me live.

One day my name will fall; be it.

Till that time let it rule.

Footfalls post death die. Be it.

Let it lie sometime.

Don’t I go for tasty food,

Whose taste ends with the tongue?

23.07.2015

Ideology and faith

Ideology of a religion

And faith of the religion aren’t same.

Religious idealism at peak

Is an exclusivist dogma, to say the least.

It threatens those of other faiths around,

Heterodox ones and secular ones as well.

Fundamentalists do none a favour

And must be discouraged collectively.

23.07.2015.

Succession is imminent.

You cannot escape ‘tomorrow’

By evading ‘today’.

You cannot avoid ‘tomorrow’

By clinging to ‘today’.

Hopes carry no guarantee.

Succession is imminent.

23.07.20115

Elephant gods

Ganapathy is a god made of elephant.

Hanuman is a god made of monkey.

Elephants and monkeys are lower to man,

Who lends to, and finds in, power to these gods.

22.07.2015

Is war not a crime?

Is killing in war not a crime?

Ask the bereaved of the one killed.

Or the ones raped by the winners.

Or the ones looted or plundered there.

21.07.2015

Stillness

You are alone when you’re with animals,

With birds, in the grove or near a river.

Only when you are with men, even one,

You aren’t alone and feel the pressure.

The silence you find when you are alone

Is not the silence that follows a storm,

Not the silence that falls in dawns or dusk

And not the one seen in the church or museum.

When you find yourself alone and aloof

Along the meadow , where the sheep would browse

Or along the brook, where sparrows would shoot.

Or on a rock by which would flow a brook

You will find such silence and will stand still

And that stillness will cleanse your soul and nerves.

It is good to be alone now and then.

In a solitude of tranquility.

21.07.2015

A dumper and the dumped

As a dumper, be not curious

Of your ex-partner ’s love affairs.

It is you  who has set him free.

As the dumped, be not jealous

Of your ex-partner’s new affairs.

You’re free to turn to a new leaf.

Shut your eyes and ears to the news

And shift to a place far away.

21.07.2015

Flaws in the laws

To rape is severer than to murder one,

With a penalty of capital punishment,

Thanks to the revised law in the parliament,

At the wake of raping and killing victims.

Accusation can act as a sole proof.

Anonymity of accuser is kept.

Anyone on a complaint can be booked,

Locked up, tried and sent to prison to rot.

To rape is a non-bailable offence.

Rape includes attempts to rape or molest, 

stalking and any suggesting comments,

Not to say about some impulsive moves.

Flaws in laws come on what all are raping,

Grouping all types of sexual attempts as rape

And put men in lock up and then to jail,

That causes them a civil death is cruel.

Lust and anger, both impulsive, come unasked.

Attempt to flirt is not attempt to rape.

To settle her personal score with a man

The revised law is handy for a woman.

No one wants to hire women for a job.

No male coach or guide to women aspirants.

No one knows from where, when and in what form

Will come an attack, and all men are scared.

Cooperation into guarded hostility

Is the result of friendships across the sex.

Segregation between sexes is set.

Isolation of women from men is bought.

20.07.2015

Visalakshi- final

He and she fell in love at seventeen.

It was their maiden love and maiden kiss.

Such a graceful girl he hadn’t seen before.

She fell for him in a total surrender.

An oval face, yellowish skin so soft,

A smart walk, intelligent talks so sweet,

And a simplicity turned modernity,

She made him her slave to become his slave.

Seven years later, they married severally,

In the same year, unknown to each other.

She went out of trace and out of pursuit.

Twenty two years off, he’d an itch for her.

As a detective, he located her,

By when she was a mother of four kids,

A girl and a boy yet to be married.

Revival of contact was established.

At sixty six she lost her husband killed

In a car accident, and her widowhood

Didn’t encourage shortening the distance.

Later she fell to a kidney failure.

She died at her home at her seventy four.

A light that kept him on constant focus

With delight and regret was off yesterday.

He felt he’s a widower at her death.

Her mother was the only eye witness

To the episode and no one else since then.

The episode was unborn to her spouse

Or any later; be it so forever.

26.07.2015

To love or to fear

To love with fear and fear with love

In one is God and one’s mother;

Not to lose their love is the fear.

God and mother are not Police

21.07.2015.

Their images survive their deaths.

That day I watched an old Tamil Film song;

The hero, the heroin, the director,

The composer, the singer and the lyricist

Are all now no more, that I realized.

Do they know that I remember their worth

With so much passion and emotion?

They would die with me, unknown to others

Who follow me, not aware of these gems.

17.07.2015

Sexual freedom beckons.

Sexual taboos are disappearing.

Adultery is shedding its inhibition.

Matrimony has lost its sanctity.

Sex with any adult is sexual freedom.

Gay marriages are legalized.

Live in relationships are approved.

Next to go is polygamy taboo

To be followed by polyandry taboo.

Sexual union must be voluntary,

Mutual, consensual without any stigma.

Separate sex from love and loyalty.

Separate sex from family and commitment.

17.07.2015

Kisses invented

Mother kisses her child.

It ends with her lips;

It ends with its cheeks;

She needs no reverse kiss.

Man kisses his beloved.

It extends with his tongue;

It extends to her tongue;

He needs no reverse kiss.

Only  two kinds are the kiss.

Mother’s is sympathetic;

Man’s is passionate.

Doers get more pleasure.

Kiss is an invention.

A lot of population

Is still away from it.

Animals instead lick.

Kiss is a handy act,

Connecting chemistry,

To bring intimacy

And be a substitute.

16.07.2015 

Lord Jagannath

Lord Jagannath, Puri, India!

What cult of the Hindu is it?

An oboriginal Shavera cult?

A jaina Tirthankar cult

Or a Mahaheena Buddhism cult?

A Shaiva  cult or a vaishnava cult?

All one by one with the time;

The ruling communities

Have subjected the tribal god

To a metamorphosis

To become a Krishna at last.

16.07.2015

Wife is spared.

She is a wife, bound by deference

And by the law to absolute

Fidelity with a man,

Who is not; she is chattel.

A personal possession of man

Is woman by a matrimony.

A man can prosecute his wife’s man

But a woman can’t, her husband’s.

Woman! Do you fight the law

And immunity granted to you

Or accept the concept of thefts

And thieves in prosecution?

16.07.2015

The Universal Ego

“O, Lord Jagannatha! Grant me a boon

As a return to this temple I built.

See that my family goes extinct

So that no person is left behind

Even in the distant future to claim

That this temple by an ancestor

Of him was built and takes the credit.”

A prayer from King Indradyumma

To the Lord Jagannath, Puri, India,

After building the present temple,

Serves for all a supreme example

For a complete total surrender

With negation of ego in absolute

Terms to realize the Universal Ego.

16.07.20015

Be authentic in reaction

To smile at one when he smiles at you

Or to smile at one for a return smile,

Without any spontaneity to do so,

Is mere a trade or a lifeless routine.

Every emotion faked is ugly.

Even negative emotion when true

Is good and you live through yourself.

Be authentic in deeds to feel at ease.

15-07.2015

Reality and dogmas ^

Heaven is up above and Hell down below.

It was held when the earth was taken as flat.

Now where is Heaven and where is Hell

With the earth as a ball floating in the space?

15.07.2015 

The axe to kingdom

Duryodhana was bad,

The Mahabharata says.

King Ravana was bad,

The Ramayana says.

They had been just rulers

Yet the Epics tell us so.

They fuelled their ego

In the pursuits of their lust.

Duryadhana coveted

The kingdom of his cousins.

King Ravana coveted

The consort of Rama.

They didn’t heed others’ views

And stuck to their egos.

The error of judgment

Not set right by hearing

Will be an axe that fells

The tree of the empire built.

15.07.2015