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Amma's gospel simple and sure shot way to Success.- can relate to this..
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Amma was and is right.
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Thank you all for your encouraging and loving posts.
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Beautiful ...
To me, "Have I fathomed?" is the key to unlock the secrets of Nature's message for us. Nature teaches us, the Mother is the representation of Nature. The query gets us moving ... makes life beautiful ... evolves us spiritually. Loving the Self is loving the query in us.
Regards
Indrajit Bandyopadhyay
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Unvarnished truth and wisdom in a nutshell, straight from the mother who rocks the world..
Nice and crisp writing editor saab.
Thanks for sharing.
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Beautiful poem indeed . If any body goes through this poem time and again, again he repeats the same. I have also gone through this poem five to six times. Thank you so much,Sir.
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GETTING BACK TO THE BASICS
The West is going to hell in a hand basket
And it looks as if its with a one-way ticket
Today we text instead we hardly talk
We forgot how to gaffe and squawk
Long ago our parents used to hug
No matter how ugly is your mug
Today they’re busy away from trouble
As the kids are loose playing marble
It seems we are smitten
We forgot how to listen
Our eardrums deadened in all that blasting
Of games and dumb movies all exploiting
We have lost our sense of sweet smelling
Choked with odours of bacon simmering
Nicotine and cosmetic flavours to enhance
Our olfactory organs leaving us in a trance
Long ago we were embroiled in sing song
It seems as if our journey has gone wrong
We don’t know how or ever try to do the whistle
We are too busy cavorting for our victuals/bittle
We are becoming a lost people aye!
Hardly look one another in the eye
Forgotten before we use Facebook one should preface
Use a real mirror before and check out your ugly face
Whether you’re a homo, black, white, short or stink
You have to learn to read, to write, spell and to think
Stop being a wise guy thinking with only with your dicks
You’ll only survive when you go back to the real basics
You may call me naive or silly
Old School or even willy nilly
Beat me with names or even use bricks and sticks
But eventually we’ve got to go back to the basics
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Amma's Words remind me of Sylvia Path's Daddy and William Blake's The Little Black Boy. But I can overhear somebody calling Mama, Mama, O Amma, Amma from the doorway and one attending tot he call from the house. Isn't it Rajendra Kishan?
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Values transmitted by human's first teacher, Ma, always stays on---and the good Ammas of any culture help mould their offspring in the best ethical and moral traditions---thus facilitating the second 'birth' of a good Republican, as an honest, law-abiding citizen, working with harmony with the community and nation.
Kudos to a remembering son who makes us meet a great mother, an enduring source of influence!
Looking forward to more of such mother-child dialogues!
Value-added poetry.
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Lovely, and timely.
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Commendable and way too relevant. To stay happy is to find happiness within. Nothing is outside. So Mama's gospel is wise in the material and metaphysical sense. We have to correct ourselves, we cannot correct others.
A good read.
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A gospel that is spell-binding in concept & narration -- so illumining & sublime for every son/daughter to imbibe its quintessence in order to be happy and make others happy too. Congrats to Rajender Krishan the poet.
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RKji, You have rightly placed the first and last stanzas highlighting the importance of being righteous and true to oneself and the need to follow the right path after showing the tough terrains of life in between. Not just thoughtful of you but also you make the reader muse over the poem for a long time even after reading!
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Beautiful samvaada! No vaada, no vivaada, just stating wisdom in simple, plain words! Loved it! Thank you!
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Best advice to lead purposeful, peaceful life. regards
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When I look back and
Reflect
What Amma said l
Did not get
A mad rush of
Youthful flow
Usually ended in
Some form of regret
Now I'm past
Those tumultuous years
And my vision is
Quite clear
Now I understand
What Amma said
Is
Time-tested and Best!
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Mother is eternally present in everyone...the refuge of warmth...the image of the eternal she is....I understand, who guides on the right path...many lofty thoughts crowd the mind.
Thanks.
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Amma was so right.
This is beautiful.
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The more you fathom you see more and more depth. Only Mother is the solution to show you a path sublime. Sublimity goes on going up!!!
God bless us all, you, me and every devotee!!!
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