Most of the day has flown like bursts of wind....adorned with spaces of silence. Are these thoughts or noises cluttering my mind. A silent man could be witholding a storm and you'd never know when he'd break!
Well ofcourse its not my thoughts coz I'm living amidst noise everywhere...the music, or TV or the machines buzzing by on and off....its all tampering with the stillness in the ear...
Basically life is noisy anyway....we need a break and we watch a movie or go out...and thats noise again....or we listen to music and its noise again...or we read...and thoughts noisy again..
Noise here is anything as opposed to the stillness of the mind and inner tranquility....
I wish I could feel so much at peace with myself that all noise would turn into pleasant blankness...within me...
So I come out of my workplace and sit in the lawn welcoming the medical college gates...pleasant sharp sun rays make way into the earth between the grass blades...the breeze so careful as not to disturb the music of silence....I sit here and feel the stability which Mother Earth infects me..
Here I am fresh again and ready to take on the world...its wonderous how a mother's touch could heal without words or medicines..!
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very good lyrical metaphors - although the word "sentiiiii" leaps to mind :-). seriously, though, well written....
noise vs. blank thought - i have always wondered how valuable or worthwhile this pursuit of tranqyuility really is. I mean, knowing human tendency, is it just a case of imagining the other side of the hill to be 'greener'? do we value tranquility so much only because its so scarce or at least not readily apparent? this pursuit of tranquility/nirvana seems too selfish to be given any credit as an honourable venture. i mean - it doesn't benefit anyone but oneself, it doent help anyone but oneself and so on...so why is this glorified in hindu culture? i feel its the greatest hoax ever - good job but a hoax nevertheless. what d'you think?
well, Mr KK, you have raised a subject which has no decisive answers.
I am searching for tranquility myself. I dont know if life culminates with it or starts with it.
About being selfish. Its not that way at all I opine. I feel that we are designed to work towards it. The acquiesce rats that we are seem to run the race for the coup, although taking different routes.
I guess I have raised more questions than answer.
@kk
u r free to believe what u want.....I dint talk bout salvation....may be u saw something what u wanted to see
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course u raised more questions...but what im thinking has nothing to do with salvation...its far more different...
But im glad ther is more perspective to what i started off thinking
ha ha...i do believe i raised your hackles :-)))
granted: my interpretation of your blog as representing salvation was a little over the board ;-) - but i still firmly maintain that the quest for salvation is inherently a selfish or at least a self-centered quest and does not deserve the hype it receives.
coming back to tranquility, well, if one is at peace with one's inner self, isn't that the highest form of tranquility? no amount of external noise can affect it and this is something that one can experience /take anywhere one wants. enanthira, madam? :-)
true....not very easily though :)
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@ kk : I started off with Jane auten club...I think she is a typical lady when it comes ot writing :)...dont ask questions..y en how :P
whatever...but you should remember that the "jane austen book club" is not written by jane austen :-)) sorry if i pointed out the obvious
saw "Sense and sensibility" last week at the urging of a friend - nice movie and nice story! Must read the book sometime!
Your writing has the very essence of pleasant gentleness that it describes!
@flickerinflame hanx for dropping in pal :)
thats "Mr.Bunsen Burner" at his best ;) for you :P
Going by the comments above...guess it wud make more sense to just shut by gob...what say?
But then again I go wid what Mr Bunsen Burner has to say about your writing :))))
...the place between noise and space is a pauseits good to be on pause in life some times...
@f flawed...thanq ther...im all flat now :P
@vishnupriya
i guess what u say makes sense...a 'pause' kind of difficult to realise aint it?
oh btw...whenz the poem coming? remember our deal? :P
hey good one...seriously got me smiling!
now that you are smiling...it's time to get others to smile :) wen are you posting your beautiful poem? ;))
I think the regulars to your blog are being deprived of poetic talent here... :D
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