Category: Philosophy

Keeping record of all your hurts and slights….

Keeping record of all your hurts and slights,
Is really the most fruitless task on earth.
You willfully cut out those lovely delights,
That are rife with wistfulness and mirth.

What exactly are you thinking of achieving,
By keeping in your heart that useless stuff?
If it is a garland of memories you’re weaving,
How would it help for you to be forever gruff?

Throw away that junk, make yourself free,
Trust me it doesn’t do good at any rate.
It’d keep you from being calm and happy,
As if you carry a great avoidable weight.

He has His record-keeper, He doesn’t need,
Any of us maintaining unnecessary records.
Just have faith that God’s system, indeed,
Will have its own demerits and rewards.

….is totally infructuous.

One of the most miraculous things in the world….

It’s not possible to store even a nanosecond,
Time is ephemeral and it is gone forever.
There is something that we can later beckon,
It’s available to us whenever and wherever.
It is rare something we can later recall,
Months and years later it’d still enthrall.

Try it, you’ll find Happiness can be stored,
You can keep it and access it at a later date;
Say, when with your life you are bored,
Or you happen to be in a depressed state.
God has given us these miraculous powers,
Even in the deserts we can grow flowers.

There is another magical quality it possesses:
When you share it, it grows and multiplies.
Everybody’s sadness and sorrows it addresses,
When least expected it can swing a surprise.
You can carry it practically everywhere you go,
Share it with all and let them see the rainbow.

Lastly, no matter how old, it feels like new,
I haven’t heard of anyone bemoaning its age.
What a great gift God gave to me and you,
Happiness can be recalled at any given stage.
With this little poem I am sending you some,
Keep it and store it for all times to come.

….is that Happiness can be stored and recalled.

One who treats all negatives and positives alike….

Good morning friends,

Have you ever been lonely and sad?
Do you remember how it made you feel?
Most often it would have made you glad,
That in this condition you learnt a great deal.
Happiness is a result,
Sadness is a learning;
In both you can exult,
If you’re discerning.

Nobody ever lives life with a constant emotion,
We should, indeed, thank God for that.
Sometimes it is quiet, at others there is commotion,
Life keeps changing its style or format.
It has ups and downs,
It has twists and turns.
There are varied sounds,
Thus experience one earns.

Both sorrow and joy have their uses,
Just as it is with failure and success.
Great is a person who gets them and refuses,
To view them with undue elation or stress.
Everything is god sent,
Everything has value,
Try to gauge His intent,
Yes, it is meant for you.

We often want to know life’s aim.
Without solving this simple clue.
Why is the worth of sorrows and joys the same?
Why clay and gold have the same value?
The person who can find,
Merges with His God,
He doesn’t let His mind,
By either be overawed.

….merges with His God.

Worrying never makes things better….

Good morning friends,

There is no situation really so bad,
That worrying won’t make worse;
It does nothing to make you glad,
But acts, more or less, like a curse.
Hence, your leaving worrying to God,
Is a decision that is never flawed.

He gives you the requisite tools,
To deal with any given situation;
Worrying is something for the fools,
It only helps to add to frustration.
Hence, your leaving worrying to God,
Is a decision that is never flawed.

Have faith and you will soon find,
He would Himself show you the way;
To your situation He can never be blind,
All that you have to do is to pray.
Hence, your leaving worrying to God,
Is a decision that is never flawed.

Without worrying your mind is clear,
To tackle your situation much better;
Song on your lips replaces your fear,
And suddenly you become a go-getter.
Hence, your leaving worrying to God,
Is a decision that is never flawed.

….trust in God always does.

You would have wasted the day….

Good morning friends,

Will you make someone smile today?
Will you be able to wipe someone’s tears?
Will you stop a friend from going astray?
Will your presence allay someone’s fears?
If not, you would have wasted the day,
Please do something about it right away.

However miserable you think you are,
There are others more miserable than you.
At least you have, of resources, a reservoir,
They, even for meals, stand in a queue.
God made you their messenger of hope,
So that with their destiny they can cope.

Most often you are not to share anything,
Other than empathy, a smile, a pat or a hug.
Of course there is great joy in freely giving,
And not to dismiss their needs with a shrug.
Give and earn a coveted place next to Him,
Give and bring cheers when things are grim.

In any case all that you have is actually His,
He only wants you to be His chosen man.
Don’t think about what was, will be and is,
Have faith in and rejoice in God’s plan.
“God, thank you that you chose me to share,
I can now be answer to someone’s prayer.”

….if you haven’t brought a smile to someone’s face.

Who should we fear in our life?

Good morning friends,

As we go along in our lives,
Who should we fear the most?
Is it okay to fear the elements,
Or should we fear some ghost?

Do we fear the animals,
Especially those that’re wild?
Or should we fear monsters,
That have been unduly riled?

Are we to fear the future,
And what for us it’d hold?
Should we fear, when young,
Of becoming disabled or old?

You have nothing at all to fear,
When God is there with you;
No situation can ever scare you,
When He guides you through.

Darkness fades and shadows clear,
When God gives you His light;
No wrongs can obstruct your way,
When God leads you to the right.

When everyone else forsakes you,
He’s the only friend you require;
Like Arjuna with Krishna at the helm,
You go unscathed through the fire.

With God as your charioteer, you fear no one.

Thank God for….

When I look around I see people wealthier than me,
Also, there is no doubt that some are healthier than me.
Many are more intelligent, cleverer and smarter,
Many have reached places whilst I’ve been a non-starter.
And yet, I know, God has given me better than the rest.
The overall blessing of Him to me has been by far the best.

God makes each one of us with specific purpose or aim,
And hence He can’t be giving to everyone abilities same.
It is for us to quickly discover what we’re meant to be,
And then to accept the matching abilities proudly.
We should be content with what we’ve been given,
And make the best of it, like a man who’s driven.

God, thank you for giving me the best in your store,
With it, honestly, I can never ask for more.
Just make me worthy of your gifts to me,
From jealousy and envy always keep me free.
Let me not find grass greener on the other side,
Let me take everything good or bad in my stride.

Thank you for making me happy and content.
Rather than living my life in useless lament.
The others have been equipped with what they need,
I too have been given, in my task, to succeed.
I don’t ever rue what they have or possess,
I thank you for your blessings and kindness.

….for what He has already given.

Normal or Abnormal, Right or Wrong, Good or Bad….

Good morning friends,

Let’s today list some rare things on earth,
One of these is surely a ‘normal human being’,
There is around us an almost total dearth,
Even on the definition of it we keep disagreeing.
What does, in effect, this teach us?
That for something this basic there isn’t a consensus.

Like all other virtues and emotions that exist,
Even this is subject to individual interpretation.
When, for example, we find “a normal man” in our midst,
Can he be used for the concept’s confirmation?
We can, therefore, easily conclude,
That even “Good” and “Bad” have no certitude.

We should thus cut out all pretensions,
And don’t ascribe virtues in absolute;
Every virtue and concept has myriads of dimensions,
And therefore even basics lead to dispute.
We don’t have universal definition of “wrong” and “right”,
No one has displayed that kind of foresight.

“God, let me not knowingly do something wrong”,
“Unknowingly, I don’t have the requisite control”,
“I shall learn the difference as I go along”,
“I have no way to see truth as a whole.”
“Forgive me for my innate ignorance,
When I err, give me another chance.”

….are not absolute but subject to interpretations.

When we ask God with a pure heart….

Good morning friends,

God, with His people maintains a bond,
To their prayers He’d always respond.
They may not get the way they desire,
For He knows best what they most require,
Hence, He listens to prayers and goes beyond.

Have trust and let Him decide the way,
How He would provide for what we pray.
Many times to make us stronger,
Our prayers, to realise, may take longer,
You may not have it delivered the same day.

There is a difference between prayer and demand,
He is a Master and not a servant at our command.
We should bow our head in gratitude,
And don’t erroneously conclude,
That He has rejected our prayer out of hand.

….He commands the universe to make it possible.

Let me not ask of God to be part of my plan….

Good morning friends,

Many of us tend to do something extreme,
We ask of God to be part of our scheme.
Our life, we forget, is already a gift from God,
But, we expect our every effort He’d reward.
We keep record of our every good and right,
And demand that we should be made knight.

Our system, we feel, is best suited for Him,
He shouldn’t follow His own fancy and whim.
How dare He favour whom we know to be bad,
Whilst the “righteous” are hungry and unclad?
“Something is wrong with His system of recompense,
Many a times His gifts are at someone’s expense.”

‘Let’s stop playing God’ is my humble suggestion,
At every step of life, let’s not crib and question.
Do we have, than Him, better inputs and sense?
Isn’t that the most arrogant and egotist pretence?
How do we know what He gave to whom and why?
None of us can ever get over self, ego, I and my.

So, accept with humility whatever He has given,
Whilst rewarding us many sins He has forgiven.
“God, let me be worthy of whatever you give,
Let me be grateful to you for as long as I live.
Let me never question your judgment or plan,
For you are my Master, I am just a small Man.”

….let Him be God and let me be Man.

Always hope for the best….

Of all the methods God gave us to cope,
The most promising is something called Hope.
You don’t have to frown,
When the chips are down,
Or when you are actually walking a tightrope.

If it hadn’t been for Hope, we’d be dejected,
When in our lives we feel sad and rejected.
The silver lining on dark cloud,
Doesn’t make us feel cowed;
We look forward to be pepped up by the unexpected.

Hope gives the impossible too a chance,
When we’re down and out it makes us dance.
Like a promise of God,
That we often applaud,
Our chances of success appear to enhance.

So, don’t abandon hope in any situation,
You and Hope are indeed a strong combination.
In God always have trust,
He never lets Hope catch rust,
Hope should be next to Love in your calculation.

….and the best will come to you.

What if “Ungrateful” and “Unfair” people….

Good Morning Friends,

Since each one of us has unique point of view,
Each one finds others as ungrateful and unfair;
It is similar to what drivers on Indian roads do,
“Of the other mad drivers on road just beware.”
It is human nature never to be worthy of blame,
“We are different but the others are all the same.”

Look within and we shall find all the wrongs,
That we are forever trying to find in others;
Each one of us to the same family belongs,
Though we’ve different fathers and mothers.
If we want our own view points to be respected,
How come of the others are always suspected?

It’d be boring if we were identical in all respects,
Variety indeed adds colour to everyday life,
Yes, it appears to make life a little more complex,
And it looks like we’re always headed for strife.
The solution is not with others but with us:
Just stop making, over others, all the fuss.

Let’s just remove our glasses and clean the dust,
And consider that others too have a right to be.
Let’s not forget that savouries with hard crust,
Often have soft cores that we don’t ever see.
People are as good or as bad as we care to think,
Forget others let’s in our armour look for chink.

….find us ungrateful and unfair?

Feeling of Hatred does more harm to you….

Good morning friends,

Someone, to you, has done some wrong, 
And a feeling of revenge is overwhelming.
You can’t get over it, it feels very strong,
Inside your body, like a fire, it is burning.
The act by your bete noire did little harm,
But your hatred is indeed cause for alarm.

Hatred is just the opposite of the feeling of Love,
Its aim is only to cause immense destruction.
Whilst the elements support you as a dove,
When you are a hawk, they cause obstruction.
I don’t suppose about it there is an argument,
That Hatred is like self-imposed punishment.

But how can you make his  for his sins pay?
Surely, he needs to be told right from wrong;
He should have done better than to go astray,
And plunge into his despicable action headlong.
So be it if you are to be the agent of God,
But, the feeling of Hatred is still flawed.

Love unfailingly achieves more than Hatred,
There are really no limits to its amazing powers;
It is blessed by God, it is divine and sacred,
Your way is not thorny but paved with flowers.
Try to assimilate Love in everyday life,
And see how gradually you cut out strife.

….than to the object of Hate.

If someone were to give you a Time Machine….

If someone were to put you in a Time-Machine,
At what point in Eternity you’d make your scene?
Would you like to be there in some unknown future,
Or in the distant past where Man has already been?

Most dream of the past with the capability of today,
Or have some future skills and live in yesterday.
If being elsewhere in Time makes you so excited,
Why not love the present before it goes away?

Present Time is actually a present, God’s gift,
There is no requirement to give it a face-lift.
If we live it well, it would become golden past,
And simultaneously our future won’t be adrift.

We don’t need the Time-Machine for times ahead,
We don’t need to access what’s gone and even dead.
Just live your present the way it ought to be lived,
Your past and future you would never never dread. 

….still choose the Present.

What a wonderful Master God is?

Good morning friends,

If you were to get yourself a pet,
What kind of life for it you’d set?
And if you’re the parent of a child,
What all would you care to provide?
You’d worry about your own control,
Whilst selecting for it an aim or role.

Just a few of these and you’d be tired,
Especially when things ain’t as desired.
You guard your home and protect them,
And you always worry about the outcome.
You sleep at nights and rest when needed,
And yet there are times you feel defeated.

Now imagine looking after the universe,
Trillions of beings He is required to nurse,
Continuously, without beginning or end.
And to each single one an ear He has to lend.
And all this without ever having a break,
Many go to sleep but He is always awake.

And yet He doesn’t seek to exercise control,
You are largely left free to choose your role.
He provides even when you don’t believe,
Or no thanks or gratitude he would receive.
This must be Love beyond our imagination.
Our Creator is the Guardian of His Creation.

….He loves us even when we don’t believe in Him.