August 27, 2018

WHAT IS ROMANTICISM?

WHAT IS ROMANTICISM? 

FOR CENTURIES, Man had wondered about his nature, what he is actually, in fact, in reality. He was a being who had come into being. NOW, this question confronted Man- what am I?

In his blind state, he posited a supernatural being/state/dimension that THEN seemed natural, and almost inevitable. This supernatural being that man called GOD, also seemed to overpower man, in a slavery of blindness. It took centuries for man to break his own self made shackles. It was not until the age of the Enlightenment that Man broke free, with reason, and reality- with the sense that this world is actually all there is, and that he is FREE to explore anything, THINK and know, discover the secrets. Man understood his own powers, and thus he expressed everything within and without in poetry, literature, paintings, music, his own sense of life, that now could really SEE. His visions came as breakthroughs within and without, his own inner self, and his new found joy. He SAW with wonder and fascination, the inner and outer world, with a nakedness, freedom, and starkness hitherto unknown.

Such a profound movement was really ROMANTICISM!! It is purely an expression of MAN!! Man is the center, and his being is all there is, this world that he perceived was his station and he was FREE to examine as deeply and as clearly as he wanted!!

Romanticism is truly Man having been born again and come of age!!

August 23, 2018

RAAG PURIYA DHANASHREE -III


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August 22, 2018

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August 02, 2018

A LIFE OF ROMANCE AND MARRIAGE - HOW ROMANTIC LOVE WORKS

A LIFE OF ROMANCE AND MARRIAGE - HOW ROMANTIC LOVE WORKS

HOW ROMANTIC LOVE WORKS 

Romantic love is a profound thing, the deepest, the fullest one can feel.

It is an electric thing – passionate, trembling, infinite.

What is that infinitude? Why is that infinitude?

Life is a process of acquiring fundamental values of character to enable us fully and joyously to act out our plan of life.

Life is purposive. Purpose is central to a man’s or a woman’s character. Purpose is that choice, fundamental choice that rules a man, drives a man, fulfills a man essentially psychologically but also physically (in that he earns his living by that)

A central purpose gives meaning to man’s life, integrates his life, is synonymous with life.

A purposeless life is not life and is as close to death as a man can come.

What is involved in a life of purpose? Purpose is a passion that is a profound grounding, an exultant security, for a man. It defines him, so to speak, and provides a wholeness and long range activity to him.

In that sense, it is purpose that makes him take birth as man. Once a purpose is deeply felt, and committed to, man is free!

There is no other thought then, no drifting, no running, no pursuit of blind, mindless values….

It is purpose that makes a man rise above the conventional world- the world that runs amok, sightless creatures following rules set by others , with no real passion, a robotism that is swallowing the world, no individuality, hence no character, no ground within the being…

With a purpose, man is free, detached from the conventional world. Yet it is he who creates, preserves, gives meaning to the world.

Purpose is hence naturally, obviously joyous because a man with a purpose has roots, deep roots to live on earth.

It is purpose that gives courage, energy, enthusiasm…

A man of purpose, a man who has essentially defined his identity, given complete meaning to life in thought and action is a passionate man.

He has a tremendous feeling for life. When such a man meets another with the same kind of deep grounding in a great purpose, the result is electric, passionate, trembling, filled with an infinite, deep ecstasy.

Why is it so?

It is a confirmation not in his mind but in front of him, objectified.

It is as if by some miracle, he can touch his purpose, touch his life, feel life by touch, sight, by his senses. It is as if a being comes and says- I am you, see me, hold me to feel yourself. You are hidden but I have brought the hidden in you out as I embody you.

You see, we live in our minds but reality is not in the mind but out there. A purpose satisfies one but we also need to, if such a miracle could be wrought, SEE the meaning of our purpose. Another human being has got the power to give us that on various levels.

Just to see the same purpose in another brings out the deepest confirmation without thought, filling us with a single, overwhelming feeling- ROMANTIC LOVE.

It is an intimacy, the “I” that we are finding a way by which it can see feel, touch, not another physical body but a concrete form and vision of his deepest grounding and foundation.

It is really a simple feeling- deep, infinite, serene and yet violent, tense, trembling. It is a union of thought and sense.

Sex hence is the most intense feeling one can feel. You can while making love, actually find the greatest blessing, because your purpose, your foundation and grounding has acquired more than a sensory value, it has become linked with pleasure.

It is a gift, a natural capacity, inborn, ingrained. To touch, feel and find a pleasure in such a way that one’s values are being confirmed. The feeling is – Yes! Yes! Yes!

It is a trembling ‘yes’ to life, to existence, to the inherent benevolence of being. It is a glorious thing and it is hence, the greatest sin to deny its meaning, its fulfilling potential, its grace, its ecstasy.

A LIFE OF ROMANCE AND MARRIAGE - THE DIVINE THING MINE FOREVER!!

A LIFE OF ROMANCE AND MARRIAGE - THE DIVINE THING MINE FOREVER!!

THE DIVINE THING MINE FOREVER!!

To look at her, at the whole of her, her structure, her soul,
Both together with no separation, and the animated feelings,
Seen clearly to a perceptive mind, to see her walk, talk,
Smile , laugh, think, respond with light in the eyes,
The flow of the body, seen through, her soul and the thing within,
To love, be struck with that womanly beauty,
To get lost in the dream of the utter beauty in front of you,
To feel that pressure in you, Oh! That delight! To see and to dream!
And to know that that divine being is yours and you are free
To explore the limits of joy, pure , given to you as a gift!
The wonder of holding and feeling the sharp aching passion,
possessed by a madness, a human animal , laughing , serene
Yet deeply driven and violent, possessing and tearing apart!
The wonder filled feeling again, the wonder, the pleasure of life!
Extreme, clearing all rot, cleansing, but simply and laughing!
A yes! yes! yes! to life and living, on and on it goes!
In the deepest union and that is an ecstasy and Pinnacle reached!!

A LIFE OF ROMANCE AND MARRIAGE - ECSTATIC UNION

A LIFE OF ROMANCE AND MARRIAGE - ECSTATIC UNION

ECSTATIC UNION

I look at her,
my girl, and
 I want to hold her,
 embrace her,
tell her,
 by some magic ,
 how beautiful and
 precious she is.

She is too good,
 almost not true,
 yet real,
 functioning, living.

It seems
like a miracle ,
this thing before me.

I kiss her,
hold her,
 and a madness
seizes me.

Suddenly I find ,
 in the act,
 the way to tell her
and a way
to express,
my own deep self,
 simultaneously,
miraculously!

I laugh, in
 astonishment,
as always.
 I prize it, hold it ,
 a precious secret.

She closes her eyes
 and we sink deep
into an ecstatic union.

It goes on and on
and we seem
to reach the limit.

I cannot believe it
 and then it hits us
and we know
in that moment
what life is-
final, complete,
 nothing left
 to be desired ever.

A LIFE OF ROMANCE AND MARRIAGE - THE LIMITS OF JOY

A LIFE OF ROMANCE AND MARRIAGE - THE LIMITS OF JOY

The limits of joy

I look into you ,
deep, and find myself.
 A madness seizes me,
I hold you and tremble
 at the sudden knowledge
of how precious
 you are to me,
a value that
 can’t be computed
because it has
 become infinite…
a pleasure that
 has become limitless.

 We are locked in
ecstasy and this
 doubles up my life ,
gives fuel and reality
- a kind of art-
 a fulfillment
just because you are
and you exist.

We go on and on,
 touching the limits
 of joy and
pain, fear, doubt
wiped out from
 the face of the earth…

Serenity and violence
 incredibly one!

A LIFE OF ROMANCE AND MARRIAGE - MARRIAGE

A LIFE OF ROMANCE AND MARRIAGE - MARRIAGE


MARRIAGE

Marriages are made in heaven
I look at her (my wife)
and I realize that
I need to prove nothing.
She is more than mine,
she is me.

She tells me often
that she can’t say ‘I love you’.
How can I say ‘I love you’
to myself she protests
and it is true.

She is sweet, too sweet.
My doubts, loneliness, fear
dissolves in her simple love.
I smile at  the simplicity
in wonder, in pure happiness.

A God must exist
I sometimes feel
for the serendipitous event
of bringing us together
and making us one in life.

One day she tells me,
as an obvious fact,
we’ll be one in death too…..
I have nothing to say
became it is true.
We are one.

She is my conscience too.
She criticizes, in the
way only she can,
completely understanding
and yet giving me
perspective,
letting me be my best
and ensuring I make no error…

She has made a
better man of me
than I was
She lets me, giving me space
to be one and in touch always
with my true, real self…

Life is so real, true
simple and hence
beautiful, profound,
grand, deeply joyous with her…

Love can be a
pinnacle and we are that proof…

Oh! My dearest, my only one…
Life is such a blessing,
such a sweet union,
such a completion
because you are me…

We hungrily reach for each other
almost all the time…
Untroubled, calm, serene and
yet violent, ecstatic, tense…

Two souls attracting
like powerful magnets
and never ever reaching
the limit of consummation.

Your kisses, your caresses
transform physicality
into something magical –
A pure state of extreme joy…


We laugh, we look,
in incredible wonder,
it takes time to accept too…
So much happiness is unknown,
seems unreal, yet it is
real, possible, ours, forever…

A LIFE OF ROMANCE AND MARRIAGE - IT IS LOVELY TO BE IN LOVE

A LIFE OF ROMANCE AND MARRIAGE - IT IS LOVELY TO BE IN LOVE 

IT IS LOVELY TO BE IN LOVE 

Love, it is a strange thing. We hear about it from childhood, we feel we kind of know what it is, but when we actually , truly fall in love, it is so lovely, so true, so filling you with happiness of such a true kind, wanting to be with your soul mate so badly, and always, it is so unbelievably nice , so new, to you that it is not even perceived as love!
Love has happened and you don’t know it is love!! It is too good to be called anything, to be even shared, what do we say, it is so enigmatic, that no words fit, and you cannot call it anything, you are just happy!!
And it is always, always love at first sight. You see your girl, and it is a shocking feeling, that strange sense of her being like you in a strange way, and then it does not matter, whether she is fair, or dark, whether she is thin, or fat, even old or young, she is just too beautiful and the nicest thing to YOU!
You sit together, and you talk, and you want to talk, you feel it unbearable to separate, you feel so completely relaxed and comfortable only with her, you talk, you sense each other, you are understood in a strange harmony of being , a strange oneness you feel, you want to only be with each other, and it is mutual, you feel so good, both of you, and that is why fights too happen, and the pain too is so good, a pain that is felt because there is longing, and the clearing of the misunderstandings actually makes you realize the depth of love, the pain, oh! The sweet pain deepening the love, making you realize shockingly that there is no getting away from her, that it is life, her, or death, without her. And you accept it as you like to be trapped, oh! The trap, and the prison that is not a prison at all but the greatest freedom you feel, the greatest happiness you get, and who would want to go away from happiness, who would care then about silly put ons, everything melts, it is a surrender!! But it is an elevation too, but you don’t know it, you are simply too happy, and you know it without words!!
Days pass, and the love grows, the pain and the meeting and extreme joy, the pain again and then the joy, again, and then you wonder, what it is!! What is happening to you and slowly you talk about it, the love is not cheap, of course you think about her in physical terms too, but not in a physical sense, but in a wondering sense, and then one day, you hold hands, it happens inevitably, and you had never known how nice and wonderful it can be, you feel now to be hit, by a kind of emotion that seems to have no limits!
You don’t know that that is called by a name- ecstasy! You don’t know it, but you obviously are filled with it, now the love becomes, solemn, steely, kind of violent, and slowly the passion pours forth, you have dirty thoughts, but they are so beautifully and enticingly dirty! Nights are filled with a pain, you want her, in the night, all the night, and you fantasize, you will do this and you will do that, and you sleep, and no sleep comes, nights of insomnia, thinking about how it would be with her, meeting her the next day, the agony and the ecstasy, the swing and the calm and the swing of pain again, you are happy in pain and happiness, both!!
And finally you both know it can’t be stopped, it happens, you accidentally touch, brush against her breasts, one day, or her lips or her cheeks, and you gasp, you are filled with a shocking feeling, so extreme, that you cannot contain it, out of this world and you finally realize, what is love!!
You find secret places, and you are filled with the hunger, the ecstatic union happens again and again, the seal is complete, the intimacy is full to the brim, the oneness is complete, you both have entered a heaven where only 2 can enter, it is an upheaval, all things mundane have been wiped out, you have become too serious, sincere, saintly in soul, passionate in body, muted in love, and sweating and screaming in love making, an unbelievable earthly heavenly happiness found, and chasteness is yours and purity, the body has become a strange instrument to give your soul the highest happiness. 
And you are married before you get married, married in soul, mind and heart, and later legally too, obviously, and a new meaning found in life, life lived, anew every day, and days pass, in pure joy, and months, the strangest thing, the love does not get lessened but gets intensified, even the other values surface, there is reason to use reason in work, in life. You release your dreams, you fly, you seem to have got an infinite power to achieve, and you do, you discover joy in life, in love, in work, in living, there is no working for its own sake but working for living in mind and body, the love paves a philosophy without words, you 2 are in heaven on earth, and you know it and you don’t as you need it not!!!

It is lovely to be in love, my dear, is it not?

A LIFE OF ROMANCE AND MARRIAGE - LIFE AND LOVE

A LIFE OF ROMANCE AND MARRIAGE - LIFE AND LOVE

LIFE AND LOVE 

If you are in love with life, you will have a natural benevolence and you will be strongly, even madly attracted to a woman who is also valuing. Then life will be fun, and sharing and even sex will go beyond just lust and hating partner but reverence and an ecstasy.

yes, understanding is love, but to understand you need to think, and to think, you need to be free, and to be free you need a certain basic sincerity

The world is simply like this, because people have not given and had the kind of philosophy that cherishes the mind of man and his right to his life.

Religion and even later philosophers have either posited a supernature or nothing. No one looks at the fact of life and its precious value.

So living privately, for yourself , using your mind to the fullest, seeing the world for what it is and laughing and dismissing it, enduring loneliness a bit, keeping quiet and serene and calm, working with passion and learning and applying in your chosen field , searching and finding friends who are truly loving and also a soul mate, putting all your mind, heart and soul in the life that you have.....This is life to me.

Regards and cheers and happy thinking to ALL OF YOU and wish you to go on and on, discovering and doing!


A LIFE OF HAPPINESS - DETACHMENT AND PEACE

A LIFE OF HAPPINESS - DETACHMENT AND PEACE

DETACHMENT AND PEACE

I look around and
Find nobody who is clear cut,
Direct, passionate…

What I see is only pretence
of being great but not truly
good and worthy.

There are no real values
within people
They are ruled by their
beliefs – age old beliefs
that are followed and
nobody knows why….

One can’t even reason
with them…. They are
stubborn, blind, driven….
their eyes empty.

There is no awakening within them..
A mass that is running, God only
knows where and for what?

You may scream but no one will
hear you….
You may rage but people will
look upon you as a mad man?

You become alone and lonely
denied love, care, values…
Wherever you go,
whatever you do..
A stale reality that evokes nothing.

And then people say you have
no feelings, you are cold.
There is nothing to feel
as there is nothing.

A terrible boredom sets in
your brain seems to be
strained, dried up, disintegrated…

You need to be strong and
make your own reality.
Slowly a joy comes
a detachment ,you feel free…
untouched and untouchable..

Proud, deeply superior
and knowing the
worthlessness of the world,
you revel in your aloneness
and find your meaning in
exploring the world endlessly…

Your mind is free and
unshackled and free to do a
million things.

                                                   You are locked up and lose all
 need – serene and peaceful.