BT Song 1523

1523 மவுன விளக்கம்

என்னை  உருவாக்கி

உனதெனச் சொல்லி

விலை தந்து அதனை

நீயே வாங்கி

ஒரு நொடி கூட

பயன்படுத்தாது

உடனே உடைத்ததின்

காரணம் சொல்லு

உருவாக்கும் உனக்கு

உரிமையும் உள்ளது

விலையொன்று தந்தது

ஏனனெச் சொல்லு

அதற்கும் மேலாக

இப்படி நொறுக்கி

உடைத்து போட்டதின்

காரணம் யாது

விடையேதும் வாராது

எனக்கும் தெரியும்

வீண்வாதம் செய்கிறேன்

அதுவும் புரியும்

ஆயினும் உன் மௌனம்

தருகின்ற விளக்கத்தை

அறிந்தது ஆன்மா

அது மட்டும் போதும்

ரீவா,  11-11-23, மதியம் 1.00

1523 Silent Explanation

Creating me and

Calling me as your own

Also buying it

By paying a price

What is the reason

For breaking it

Not even using it

For a single second

As You have the right

To create me

Why you paid

A cost for that [to buy]

Added more to that

What is the reason

For crushing it

Like this

I know for sure that

No answer would come

I also know that

I am unnecessarily arguing

But the explanation

That your SILENCE gives

My atman understood

That is enough for me now

Rewa, 11-11-2023, Afternoon 1.00.

I went to Varanasi on November 1st and was busy with local programs till 5^th.  But I became sick due to food poisoning.  With vomit and diarrhea I was down for two more days.  As I slightly improved, not wanting to miss the opportunity that we already planned, I went to Buddha Gaya [8^th Nov.], Rajgiri and Nalanda, returned back dead tired with joint pains.  On 8^th night I couldn’t even sleep for two hours due to severe pain on the right leg just above the toe.  I even thought of not getting down from the car, allowing only Subhashan [who came to visit Varanasi and other places] to see Nalanda and Rajgiri.  Somehow as a student of history, not wanting to miss the opportunity, with Subhshan’s help I walked slowly with much pain and visited important historical places.

As the Chikungunya virus was spreading widely in Varanasi, severe people became sick.  I also returned back to Rewa with much joint pains [three days sickness, three days continuous travel in this old age that too with Pacemaker….too much].  But I was lovingly taken care by Shashi’s family and managed to have good rest on 10^th night, but pain continued So this morning, ‘sick or no sick’ as I cannot spend a day without reading books, I took the book: The Essential Rumi, by Coleman Barks, New York, HarperCollins, 2004 [1995]. Before reading I listened to one Gazal of Rumi in You tube and one line impressed me: He bought the clay pot that he created; broke it and went away’.  Impressed by the thought I wrote this poem.