Search for Nirvana and Gabriel Iqbal
The search for nirvana holds such a pull that in every few generations someone attempts to find it. Gabrieal Iqbal, a Canadian, originally from Kashmir, India, states that he has found it in heart intelligence. It seems that the name is not his creation, it has been around for some time. The concept of […]
Kashmiri Pandits’ Rendezvous with Destiny
Kashmiri Pandits’ civilizational pinnacle receded, perhaps, a thousand years ago, by the end of Utpala Dynasty (855 – 1003). Their glory has been especially in steady decline since the advent of Sultanate in 1339. As they became a minority after volitional and forced conversion to Islam, their life became one long road of survival, even […]
Reading God’s Thoughts
If God has given man the capacity to think, Then why has he denied him the choice of a path, He has padded life with an unbreakable slate of suffering, But could have punctuated it with occasional ecstacy to amuse himself. Life is a sentence without a reprieve, Freedom is an illusion widely studded […]
The Spiral of Time
Years have coalesced into one spiraling tube, Through which we see our genesis and journey, Grueling is the lived life, Agonizing its interpretation. Time colors experience – Our innate journey can take many forms, But freedom beckons at every step, Weaving a kaleidoscopic net of eternity. Human life could have been better, If […]
Humility and Tenacity – A Tribute to Inder Krishen Bhat
Inder Krishen Bhat, a stellar personality, passed away on the morning of September 23, 2017, in Falls Church, Virginia, at the age of 71. The last time I met Inderji was at the KOA East Coast Camp in July, 2017. He was as usual low-key, self-effacing, and yet a determined KOA worker. Though we […]
A Dance without a Tune
When there was everything there was still a vacancy, When there was a vacancy still something seemed to exist, Life is a dance often without a tune, A tryst with God without a commitment. In the depths of sorrow there is a hope for catharsis, In the trenches of everyday life there […]
If I Could Have Done It
There were gardens that could have been made more beautiful, There were tears that could have been stopped, There were causes that could have been backed – But I was under the gravity of a vision. I sought perfection in the chaos of life, Pursued ideas losing the primal pulse of actions, […]
Echoes of a Distant Thunder
Sky was a curvature of serenity, Hills stood a pinnacle of ethereal question marks, Trees shamed you in their pregnant silences, Roads had no destination. People reacted with instinctual simplicity, Sighs and pains were a gift of god, Not to be manipulated, But accepted with grace and poetry. When […]
Music of Earth Will Never Die
Heathens will create commotion but creepers will dance, Wars will ravage mankind but mountains will never flicker. Man’s greed will scar the earth but spring will never alter, Politics will corrode human ways but waterfalls will not be swayed. Man knows more with time but nature is constant, Ego rules but nature nurtures. […]
I have Gained more by Putting my Head in Stars
Where are you – The embryo of everything, Preserver and destroyer – The pulsating energy of the universe? I have wanted to talk with you for a long time, But often you are unapproachable, When you speak you talk in parables, Why do you play games with your creations? When you created the […]