Kavithai..kavithai #8

God came down to earth
at the very moment i was born
He was my mother
who showered love on me
He was my father
who was my role model
He was my brother
who was my partner in pranks
He was my teacher
who taught me about the world
He was my best friend
who was there for ever
He was my boss
Who was my mentor
He was my junior
who listened to whatever i said
He was my wife
who was behind my every success
He was my son
who was all my happiness
He was my soul
who was my guiding light
He was there all through my life
not leaving me for a single moment
Alas, only had I known this truth earlier
i would never have run all around!!

Kavithai..kavithai #7

A new day has started
with the first rays of sun
warming up the cold air
The beautiful smell of earth
and the fresh air all around
makes one young and rejuvenates the mind
As the time passes by
it is the noise of vehicles all around
the clear skies replaced
by the dark smokes of the lifeless morons
with in a short span of time
There is no sign of that beautiful dawn
the wait has begun to live another day
for that fresh whiff of air
Oh God, when you will make man more saner
that he should keep our mother earth
cleaner and better.

Genesis of thoughts - Bhagavat Gita

I was just reading the third chapter of Bhagavat Gita which talks about karma yoga. as you might be knowing Lord Krishna talks about Karma yoga, Jnana Yoga and Bhakti Yoga. In these karma yoga is the lowest level and bhakti yoga is the highest form through which one can have the vision of true Self. Jnana yoga is in between these two. Karma yoga is having the vision of self through work, Jnana yoga through knowledge and Bhakti yoga through devotion.

Lord Krishna tells Arjuna that Jnana yoga is superior compared to yoga but at the same time asks him to fight the war. when Arjuna asks why i should fight war(karma yoga) rather than go to forest and meditate(Jnana yoga), Krishna tells him that even though people are qualified for Jnana yoga, still they should perform karma yoga for the sake of others who are good enough to perform only karma yoga and not fit for Jnana yoga. Because what ever a Great Man does others follow. if some one who is qualified for Jnana yoga performs the same, the other men who are not fully qualified will try to follow the same and end up ruining themselves.


After reading this i really wondered about two things. One is about the three yogas and other in which Lord say Karma yoga should be done even if qualified for Jnana yoga. I was thinking about these two with the present day. I was comparing our education system with the three yogas. In order to gain knowledge about something, we first need to work on it physically, then if we study the theory we will gain knowledge about it and then after gaining knowledge about the same you can do the research and gain complete knowledge. If we stick to this procedure, our education system might improve a lot!! our school education system is such that there is more importance given to theory and very less to practicals. if we could change this and give more importance to practicals, then more children can understand a lot about what they study. Even in technical education, we have diploma, engineering and phd. Majority wants to get into engineering. This is akin to performing jnana yoga ignoring karma yoga!!! since there is less knowledge people ends up completely ruining their life.

Anyways there is so much to learn in Bhagavat Gita which can be applied in practical life. But i feel terribly sad when some people say that bhagavat gita should not be kept or read at home since it creates tensions for that family as it was first told by Lord Krishna at Battle field. What an Irony!! Bhagavat Gita is the most sacred of all Hindu scriptures and if people dont read that because of some stupid superstitions what else they will read.