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Born-live’d-existed

April 24th, 2013
you know the time is hard,
and what we find right,
is no longer accepted
as truth.
this age of fake money,
the age of fake property,
this age of education
that teaches not much.
but if we hold on,
longer and ever,
with the simple rules
taught & preached at home,
born,
when bread was rare.
when the sun rises,
and the humanity returns
to it’s real ways,
love, life and breath.
we may still have,
eyes enough to see
the direction,
friends and dear ones,
and build a life,
that satisfies 
birth, life 
and eventually a blessed 
crossing.

Second thought; away! O clock tower, away!

January 21st, 2013

People around me, friends & foes alike. have chosen their tracks. Satisfied or not, they have accepted the track they walk on and give it all of theirs. 

Second thought, if they have one, it reflects not in their dealing with the life. 
I on the other hand, still find second thoughts engraved in my mind. I try to convince my heart of the reality that is around, the truth that exists on the ground, in front of me. But it listens not. 
I know not that the people around me think about, me or my day but I know, that I am still a simple man. Apart from my excursions around the world, via words and thoughts, I still am a simple human being, yearning for the same life that everybody around me errs for. 
What to do with this second thought. Osho, in his audio’s once said- ‘mind; when it wants to avoid something, it pushes you for the impossible.’ [wordings not exact]
is that what is happening to me? is my mind playing games with me?
Life can not be simpler for me, I have learned of that. Words weave the world around, whether I write them or not. 
Everyday, i wake up, have second thought about my day. thoughts which bind me to my bed and to my room until the clock commands a decision and my brain chooses the logical option and my day begins. I like my best self thus goes on- lives the day or should i say- spends the time. until the hammer of schedule lightens and I am alone again. since the hours are mostly over, so is the load of clock. 
Then, I decide to die again, into my tomb knowing what the body and my brain leisure- food & entertainment. as the night falls. sometimes i wake up, sometimes I rest in peace. But the whole lies dead in the tomb. Everyday, I do the same thing. A day, like today, when I resist and thus break off the chains of schedule, break myself free. the brains but still lies dead. For it knows not what it must do,  except of cursing me for letting it out of its daily misery.
The sun has already traveled half the sky. The body yearns for food, or rather the mind wishes it to eat, to pass some more time, or to make me lazy again. return back to sleep, let the clock slip; so that it does not have to indulge in the tiresome job of trying to field against the unknown.
Another child of the middle class curse, spelled upon us by the monster of greed and the system of uniformity -’give them a bit of everything so they do not think or yearn for more but to remain in their zombie sleep; running, never out running, the system.’
But today, I am here, a bit away from my schedule. telling my brain- hungry, if I am; in pain, if I am; lonesome, If I am; guilty of not doing my daily labour, if I am; I wish differently. This post is, even if it turns out blank, an effort to find my route.
Second thought, that is what it is.
(I am typing with one hand decorated with a cramp bandage.)
Second thought.
 (cont…)

The crossing

September 27th, 2012

HI,

what would you do, if you knew the future? 
would you stand back and watch, watch to confirm if what you saw was really correct or would you go ahead and change it because you think you can make it better for all or else would you go ahead and let all happen as it must and do things to secure your and your blood safe? what would you do?
Can there be an answer to what has not happened and an explanation to what has already happened. Logic may tell you that you are correct, your level of understanding may even help you conclude - an explanation. but what if your knowledge was limited, what if you did not know everything, would your explanation be correct then?
But then again we are humans and one good thing about us is that we do not give up, we use the knowledge we have and make the best of it. Even if in due time our decision/ line of action may lead to poor results and it may haunt us for long time. At such time the realization & hence acceptance that but we did our best in that particular moment helps. 
Today, I realized lot of my decisions have not yielded the results that I had wished. Today, as I find myself shrinking and I find no reason to have hope of a better future for my family and myself, I am forced to think the way I have just written, I don’t say it is correct but that is how I am trying to tackle my situation. 
what does a man do once he has lost nearly everything? what does he do? where does he go when everywhere around he find darkness? dawn may be around but you can’t see it in the dark, you can hope, you can walk, but expect no more. For the future, if can be predicted does not mean- it is the future.
Good night.
Apurva  

a pallet

July 29th, 2012

Hi,

There are no words that can express the touch of wind, yet we try, we try and try. 
it is not that the one who frames the word knows not that he can not express it whole, but he knows it the most. But he does it, not with regret but with pleasure with gratitude that he could express, what he could.
To attain peace, to attain happiness for self and for the family, that perfect state of life, is also the same. Do remember that attaining that perfect world is not possible, to create is not possible but you must do it, must attend to it. what comes take it with love and happiness and what comes up will be in line with nature.
regret not what you did, what you tried did not succeed instead by happy, be thankful to the gods and the life that you have attained what is there in your hands.
a new life will flower in your path.
apurva

dry rain

July 10th, 2012

Hi,

I was a bit sick last week so  please excuse my absence.
So, where am I- I was asking this to the sea. Like always, I received no answer but did receive some waves. That evening was lovely. I was late and  the ships far ahead in the anchorage felt like towers of light, a decorated floor. A beautiful evening.

Last week I again fell sick, the feeling was overwhelming, the question was [and is] pressing hard- why do we live for, what do we live for. I did not receive any answers, from that[this] point there are infinite possible roads, one is of denial- nothing is wrong, just go on; another is of lying to self- everything is fine, you are hallucinating, just go on; else leave everything to time, just go on, or else - life is over.- Halt and analyze; or worst, game over- leave the game; or may be, find the one responsible who brought you down thus a road will show.
Trust me, there are so many things that can come to your mind.

But none of them matter, none of them guide and worst is once you realize that all them reasons are fake. you are in trouble, the mind can build no real things, once confronted with reality - it is as lame as a tied goat.
Discipline works in such cases, fight on until the day comes out. I am not a trained man [oops]

So what else is possible, if not hide, if not lie, if not sleep and worst if not a disciplined person?

you need to trust in yourself, understand that I am weak, and fight on- without discipline you will fall more and more and the falls will be longer and harder but fight on.

Most difficult road is the road towards freedom but that is where the reality lives.

….Apurva

Road to the river

August 21st, 2010

I had a belief in a philosophy back then, if you really want something.. Just ask it and it will come to you. Stupid me. I thought the belief part was easy the coming part difficult.

But as I am finding out, everything comes if you ask. the difficult part is knowing what to believe in. Coz what comes packaged with these thoughts is the knowledge, most of the time we are lying to ourselves. and once you know that, You just can’t really ask what you want. the belief that you are asking the right thing is the harder part.


Another from my book of travel…..


The road is straight
the directions are but rounding me up.

Some ask, some suggest,
to take a turn at the corner,
some guide, some threaten,
to detour from the next turn.


The road is straight
the buildings but take my time up

some have love, some have smile,
a chance to dance, a chance to belong.
some have hate, some have hurt,
a challenge to overcome, a cost to pay

The road is straight,
the people but make me to stay

For some have been
wandering around,
some lost, some hurt, some been
travelling round-n-round,

Oh! I stop, I turn, I await,
I guide, I find, asking
my way back, the keys to gate.
Oh! I stopped and now lost.

Between the signals,
Among the buildings,
trying to find my way,
sleeping at night
travelling at day

Tired yes that I am,
But still the feel is together.
The road was straight,
still waiting for me to be there

………..Apurva .