403 My World
I created my own world
Within me
And I lived in it
All alone
Like the first man
Who lived alone?
I too remained in it
Peacefully
There is need
For us to think there
And no opportunity
Comes to think there
Even when
Opportunity came to think
The heart never
Desires to think
I enjoyed the joy
Of remaining calm
And I forgot
My own surrounding
When others
Came to see
I hide suddenly
Within me
You won’t understand
That joy
And others cannot
Give it to us
Once we have
Decided to create it
None has the
Capacity to stop it.
Once that
World is created
The heart will
Never desire to come out from it
You too
Try to create that world
Then you proclaim
About it to others
Mathigiri, 15-1-18, 11.10 pm.
The best time for me in a day is few minutes (sometimes only few seconds) that I try to remain quiet either contemplating something or reflecting the activities of the day or even try to calm my mind not allowing to think anything (but that itself becomes another activity). Of course as long as we remain conscious it is impossible for us to remain inactive. @ But the inner calmness which the Siddha tradition calls as ‘Sombar’ (idleness, which is a wrong translation of this Tamil word in that context). But once we try to create a world within us where we try to remain calm, then that few seconds is a joyful experience from which we don’t want to come out or don’t allow others to enter. To understand this I often point out the few seconds or minutes one loves to lie down after waking up after a good sleep. More than a good rest, the few seconds of that laziness and longing to remain on the bed to relax is best luxury for many. And naturally one gets irritated if she has to get up from the bed or disturbed by others.
@ It has been rightly observed by Stuart Hampshire that action is attributable to a human being only as long as and throughout the period that he is conscious.
It is a necessary truth—and one of the most important truisms about human beings—that if a man has been fully conscious for some time, there must be some verbs of action that truthfully summarise what he has been doing during that time. The verbs of action may represent him as doing something desultory, purposeless and inactive. The mode of performance may vary through many degrees: but if conscious, then necessarily performing, and if unconscious, necessarily not performing, in the sense that no action is attributable to an unconscious man as its agent….A more decisive difference between consciousness and unconsciousness lies between the necessity of intended action in the one case and of a mere natural movement without intention in the other.{Stuart Hampshire, Thought and Action, London, Chatto and Windus, 1959, pp. 93-94}—quoted by S. Paul Kashap, in ‘REFLECTIONS ON THE CONCEPT OF ACTION IN THE GITA’, in Bimal Krishna Matilal, ed, Moral Dilemmas in the Mahabharata, Indian Institute of Advanced Study Rashtrapati Niwas, Shimla, in association with Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, Delhi, (1989) 2nd Reprint, 2014, Pp. 116-128, p. 125. In fact the entire chapter by Kashap is worth reading to understand this point relating to Gita about Action.
403 என் உலகம்
எனக்கொரு உலகம்
எனக்குள்ளே படைத்தேன்
என்னோடு அதனுள்
தனித்தே இருந்தேன்
ஆதியில் வாழ்ந்த
மனிதனைப் போல
அதனுள் தனித்து
அமைதியாய் இருந்தேன்
சிந்தைக்கு அங்கே
வேலையே இல்லை
சிந்திக்கத் தேவை
ஏதுமே இல்லை
சிந்திக்கத் தேவை
வந்தும் கூட
சிந்திக்க மனதுக்கு
விருப்பமே இல்லை
சும்மா இருக்கும்
சுகத்தை அடைந்தேன்
சுற்றி உள்ள
சூழ்நிலை மறந்தேன்
மற்றவர் வந்து
எட்டியே பார்க்க
சட்டென எனக்குள்
நானே மறைந்தேன்
சொன்னால் அந்த
சுகம் புரியாது
பிறர்அதை நமக்குத்
தர இயலாது
நாமே அதனை
விரும்பியே படைக்க
தடுக்க எவருக்கும்
திறன் கிடையாது
ஒருமுறை அந்த
உலகைப் படைத்தால்
வெளியே வர
மனமிருக்காது
ஒருமுறை நீயும்
முயன்றுமே பாரு
பின்னால் அதுபற்றி
பிறருக்குக் கூறு
மத்திகிரி, 15-1-18, இரவு 11.10