Tsunami dilemmas
BY VASANTHA RAJA
1
On a clear sunny
morning, on a quiet Boxing Day
A tropical sandy beach where children happily
play;
Disaster suddenly came, when giant Tsunami waves
Mercilessly gobbled
up everything along their way;
A helpless single
mother, grabbing two kids in one hand
Fighting losing battles with vengeful
waves gone mad;
To save at least one kid, only one thing she could
do:
She dropped one from her loosening grip of hand
The drowning little
boy's dreaded stare fixed on hers
Heartbreaking memories, to haunt her like
a curse;
Once the waves are gone, her delicate faith in ruins,
Defied God
in anger, for her unanswered prayers
She said: "Either
He's not almighty, in which case He's not God
Or He's not compassionate, in
which case He's not God
And without both, God isn't God; has Tsunami killed
God too?
Someone help me reach sanity, and make sense of my Lord."
2
An aging Guru with
a beard so white
In his kindness saw her plight
Thought of coming to shed
some light
And drive her torment out of sight
Be a little
patient, O' young lady
Purpose of Universe not so crazy
Once you grasp its
meaning clearly
All your worries would melt away gently
Causally determined
'general plan';
Particular events though not so planned;
Wandering souls
that learn and scan;
A journey through lives - a Karmic plan
Imperfect,
contradictory universe of ours
Meant to be in flux with opposing
powers
For the needs of self-evolving souls to hover,
Universe is a
temporary material cover
Universe is a
school where souls freely learn;
Conflicting values for Reason to
discern;
Good, evil, beauty, ugly, pleasure and pain
Confronting souls on
personal/social plane;
Constant
breakdowns tearing our lives
Smashing the routine that goes on for a while
Dramatic changes - often blessings in disguise
Opening unseen paths for
souls to learn and thrive
A training ground
for souls - that are meant to care
Slowly, but surely become self-less and
fare
Beauty of a place beyond - they'd qualify to share
That's the task
the universe is destined to bear
Conscious turn to
the real goal,
Not so easy for many a soul
Life to life, through birth to
birth,
A learning process towards mirth
Stopgap selfhoods of interim
lifespan
Seeing as substantial - the delusion of man
Burden of
self-centred egos of lifespan
Defeat that to grasp soul's universal
plan
Ignorance of the
goal - greed, envy, jealousy
Root-cause of suffering - ego-centric
fallacy
Caring just for one's own - training sessions only
The unswerving
aim should be universal mercy
Make no robots,
make no golems - that's the designer's wish;
With their conscience creative
minds should always act as they wish
Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle -
that's the source of free-will;
Producing souls - souls of the saints -
that's the designer's wish
Death is just a
comma, my lady, not a terminal end
A temporary break from one life to another
- new setup to befriend;
A screen to hide old structures from the burgeoning
new trends
Presenting fresh chances for the nomadic souls on the mend
Events and people
once plagued your mind may now seem rather futile
Ever-changing bonds and
links, without substance, will end up futile;
But the mind you cultivate, by
means of your bonds - a task really worthwhile
For, the knowledge and
wisdom, stemming from them, will always be fertile
A finite Universe
designed to plan,
Fifteen billion years ago it sprang
A unique beginning
with a Big Bang;
Hurling matter and energy to a plan
Systemic rising
of finely balanced forces;
Biological information, causing life's
courses
Appropriately unleashing DNA doses
Determining evolution's neatly
chosen sources
DNA, while
configuring the general type of species,
Individuals having for themselves
unique DNA theses
Harmonising Universals with Particulars in synthesis;
Not the blind outcome of Matter-in-motion's service
Call it Nature call
it God - that is not the main question;
Role of Intelligence in the Universe
is the central question
'What about other Big Bangs - before and along with
ours?'
A lot there must've been for sure; but that is not the main
question
True,
matter-in-motion dominate the Childhood of Evolution
But, soon life and
Reason rise to outshine matter-in-motion
Dogmatic axiom: Matter as the
Absolute; that's the Materialist version
What came second must be the image
of the First: the purpose of the Creation
Universal energy
appearing forming different modes of mind
Modelling modifying refining
life-forms - like in a 'production-line';
Performing different deeds
triggering feelings of pleasure and pain;
Constantly changing mind's vision
by changing its bonds and kin
3
Era of the
great big reptiles is The Age of the Self-Centred Mind
Solitary eggs that
hatched and survived; a mind of different kind
Self-care, a necessary step
for the next step: The Age of Caring Mind
When mammals of milk-suckling
offspring, began the caring kind
Man on the earth marked a leap in the
mindsets
A new kind of setup for compassionate mindsets
Social beings born
to socio-political life-nets
All that in addition to the migrating
mindsets
Re-born mind of the
travelling soul - not a 'tabula-rasa'
It's a spiritual 'DNA' that brings-in
past like a visa
Each of life's chapter-potential determined like a
drama
Mind with free-will enrich new acts accumulating karma
Road to perfection,
road to liberation, souls have different pace
Set to reach an identical goal
for the ending of a very long race;
Society's eventual righteous equality
will fit souls' maturing grace
Making it easy for the souls to attain the
stage they're supposed to trace
4
Conscious grasp
of the main Goal - that's the crucial call
Here occurs a paradigm shift,
transcending all other goals;
The souls metamorphose into saints - that's the
Bodhisatva's role
The conscious journey to enlightenment - that's the
ultimate pole
Souls on The Path
have an important duty
Help those who suffer see The Path
firmly
'Social/personal struggles' have one purpose only
Guiding souls to
qualify for a place so saintly
Nirvana or heaven -
misty glimpses from the earth;
Probably not like anything we experience on
earth;
Perhaps opposites of aging, decease pain and death
Love, Beauty
and Creativity - the gist of its wealth
The single mother
listening to the Guru patiently
Holding her little child, stood up so
firmly
Passing stilly mountains with serene beauty calmly
They followed
Guru's steps to an Ashram so heavenly
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