I, You & the Cosmic I

A Personal Voyage

As I offer You a flower, Ma,

I come to You as the very flower!

As I smell and savor the beguiling scent,

I become the scent, the flower & the space between!

As I collect the flower from her kindly mother flora,

I become the plant, its leaves & the spreading roots!

As I enter the garden to gather these winsome blooms,

I become the garden, the air and the nourishing soil!

As I breathe the air in there and revel in the breeze,

 I become the breeze, the earth and the firmament!

As I gaze the canopy embedded with many immaculate pearls,

I become the Sun, the Moon and the twinkling stars!

As I gape at the sprawling bright ‘Akash Ganga’,

I become the glow spreading as the ‘Sathasaakhi’, the ‘Aswath’!

As I muse on the celestial gems, the seen and the unseen,

I become the thoughts that form this very universe!

When I am the cosmos, then I am the time, the absolute,

Flowing, spreading, filling, engulfing every void and beyond!

Through the time, the incessant time, I become YOU, the Cosmic I,

As all the aphorisms emanating from the Vedas start blooming in me!

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I feel better now
written by kartha_pes, 2010-02-07 19:59:09

Dear Partha ji,
That was very nice of you. I appreciate the gesture.
I have started reading Parashurama Kshetra. I like the approach. I shall complete and come back again.
Thanks
Kartha

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Thank You, Thank You Rudraji,
written by kartha_pes, 2010-02-07 19:34:19

Dear Rudraji,
Thank You, Thank You for those nice words of appreciation and refreshing welcome.
I would strive to be more regular family member rather than an annual visitor.
Thanks again,
Kartha

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A beautiful Advaitin view
written by rudra, 2010-02-06 04:09:43

Dear Dr Kartha,

A truly Advaitic experience, expressed in such beautiful poetic format.

...I become the scent, the flower & the space between!....

Indeed...is there any difference between the experiencer, experiencee and the experience?
Welcome back...I emphatically echo Partha's and NS' greetings.

Best,

Dwai

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It really does not matter
written by partha, 2010-02-06 01:56:21

Dear Doctor,
You should really not have troubled yourself so much.
I think I am able to understand what you call 'lack of total involvement', now that I know that you do not know the Tamil language.
A reviewer of my book would have certainly liked to go back to the original Tamil version at least occasionally. That must have been your problem.
Our membership in tmj perhaps does not include too many Tamil knowing persons. Therefore the lack of a review in tmj for the book perhaps does not matter.
Please feel free to drop the idea of writing the review.
If you have enjoyed reading any part of it, do let me know at your leisure. By the way did you get to read my 6-part blog on Parashurama Kshetra? Did you like it?
Warm regards. Partha.

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Thank you Narensomu,
written by kartha_pes, 2010-02-06 00:59:36

Dear ns,
It is ages since I am writing reply to you. I feel like a sort of homecoming and a get a sense of being among friends.
After a long gap, I am planning to enjoy here.
Thanks for appreciating my piece.
Regards
Kartha

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An extremely profound and heartfelt apology to my dear Partha
written by kartha_pes, 2010-02-06 00:52:32

Dear Partha,
Thank you so much for your appreciation and the kind comment.
Due to lack of proficiency in Tamil, I haven’t read Subramanya Bharati, and in English too. I feel extremely privileged to be compared with the great poet. I consider, I do not deserve it. Thanks many more to you.
My dear Parthaji, I earnestly request you to forgive me for not keeping up with my long due promise. During this period, I had tried a few times to start writing on the topic. On each occasion, I was pulled back by a sense of awe as well as a feeling of insufficiency to review the book. It is impossible for me to write without that ‘complete’ involvement. Always hoping that I would succeed next time and it was never fructified. Because of the feeling of guilt, I punished myself by abstaining from being active in MEDHA for many months. I am extremely apologetic for such a bad behavior from my person. I hope you will be kind enough to understand my plight and forgive me. Awaiting your response.
With prayers, thanks & wishes
Kartha

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written by narensomu, 2010-02-02 20:42:57

Thankyou Dr Kartha. It' s nice to see your beautiful article here.
" Kakkai Siraginile Nandalala" -As Partha says one is reminded of these immortal lines while reading your beautiful lines.
Warm regards
ns

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Thank you
written by partha, 2010-01-31 17:08:23

Thank you, Dr. K for reoffering your elegant floral homage to Ma as Brahmam, from your Sulekha submission in 2008. This enables me to offer my appreciation. Any saguna brahma upasaka who is aware of the continuous and perennial connectivity between himself, the object of his devotion and the permanent infinite can of course become aware of his identity with the infinite, at least during such contemplation.
Wonder whether you have read the pre-independence national poet Subrahmanya Bharati in translation. One of his invocations to Nandalala has these striking lines,
'In the feathers of the crow, Nandalala, I see your shyamavarna........... When I put my fingers into this flame, I feel that I am touching you.... and so on!'
You put me in mind of my favourite modern Tamil poet! Thanks once again.
Warm regards. Partha.

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