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To touch ones heart and gets its approval, a song composed with good music is good Prose is good to communicate everyday happenings and philosophy, In-between are poems, just like someone who has left the ground and not yet met the sky Mankutimma “To touch one’s heart and get its approval, a song that is composed with good music is the best. Prose is good to convey everyday happenings as well as deep philosophy. In between are poems – just like someone who has left eh ground and not yet met the sky.” – Mankutimma - See more at: http://wordsofwisdom.in/mankutimmanakagga/page/4/#sthash.Z99Fn5YW.dpuf “To touch one’s heart and get its approval, a song that is composed with good music is the best. Prose is good to convey everyday happenings as well as deep philosophy. In between are poems – just like someone who has left eh ground and not yet met the sky.” – Mankutimma - See more at: http://wordsofwisdom.in/mankutimmanakagga/page/4/#sthash.Z99Fn5YW.dpuf “To touch one’s...

Restless mind ....... stop, get still Let me feel my heart, and my self You are a great instrument You help me reason and survive You help me create and connect Will you stop now ? I have had enough I want to live for a while The touch of warm cloth, pleasant sun The sounds of children playing, birds behind The silence around, and the flowering of a big feeling of happiness I wont be able feel to any of these, if i am enslaved by you Restless mind ....... stop, get still Let me feel my heart, and my self You are quick as a quiver Cutting across any tiny feeling Quite deep feelings are sensitive Do not rush which such precision and speed I want to feel quite for a while The beauty of of the dark night, The comfort of your beloved who sits next to you No talks, no plans, no thoughts Sitting inside your own Mantapa* Restless mind ....... stop, get still Let me feel my heart, and my self Translated - La na Ra *Vestibule of a temple

"A river flows from its birthplace to the sea. All along, it collects qualities of the earth and giving the earth some of its own qualities - forever changing. It is the same with qualities of humanity. They keep changing in every generation. One can not keep count or track of how the changes happen." - Mankutimma

A nice weekend drive to B R Hills, deep into the beautiful forests simply got me thinking. It made me wonder how mankind has tried experiencing, learn, live, exploit nature - a mysterious biological system which we have no clue of or will we ever have! I had very few choices - either i had to dig the inferences of hundreds of people and their studies to know what it is, possibly to see how little they have discovered. Or i had to dive into some poets lively imaginations to feel some beauty of his words, plain pleasure. Or i could talk to people of the forest, see how they lived, what they felt and get some stories of their livelihood. Or simply rely on what little i feel. I stopped worrying and simply looked at my little son enjoying all the green around :-). Nature, i guess, it has its own purpose, mechanism of existence which we do not know deeply. It is designed to satisfy a larger need beyond the comprehension of 'man'. Hence nature cannot be investigated keeping man i...

Is not "Need" a silent sensation ? Need to see some one, need to play, need to sing, need to earn, need to satisfy a craving, need to feel safe, need to feel close, need to know information....so on We mostly respond to this sensation, we react and we choose to act. We either tune ourselves sometimes ( eg. let me not act now, i may not need it..) or most of the times we act using our senses choosing ideas which have affordances to satisfy the need. They could be any external stimuli - nature, people, objects, systems. Then we try, fail, follow, invent, copy some ways (processes) to 'use' these props to satisfy the needs. Something funny happens then. Either you forget what you were up to and jump to some another need, else you nurture your experience, you want to remember it and build on it. Your clever mind searches for 'benefits' of the experience - grow monetary, efficiency, pleasure, play or experiment, invest newer meanings, connections and so on. N...

My little son spoke to the moon again This time showing off his toy train I got excited, decided to give a try Sat next to him, staring above the dark deep sky I tried, i listened aloud to my confused heart and my noisy brain, phew it was so hard! I was exhausted and my son smiled Continued to speak to the moon in ease I sat back, watching him and his merry Feeling sad, quickly shifting to what i know The boring science and the boring arts The boring ideas of the modern adult