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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=523660" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Krishna's Advice to Arjuna</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">14: If the soul meets death when Sattva prevails, <br>then it goes to the pure regions of those who are seeking truth.<br>15: If a man meets death in a state of Rajas, <br>he is reborn amongst those who are bound by their restless activity; <br>and if he dies in Tamas, he is reborn in the wombs of the irrational.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Bhagavad Gita, XIV, transl. Juan Mascaro.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">« It is incorrect to assume that Hindu thought strained excessively after the unattainable and was guilty of indifference to the problems of the world. We cannot lose ourselves in inner piety when the poor die at our doors, naked and hungry. The Gita asks us to live in the world and save it. »</div><div style="margin:10px 0">S. Radhakrishnan, The Bhagavadgita.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>When Thodti was born at Nelveli in the latter half of the XXth century<br> his ancestors had been living out-of-right<br> for the past XXX centuries<br>   hovering<br>on never-never land under villages with-out-back twenty-hutments<br>now overgrown to two one-thousand hovels in towncentre marshalling <br>       yards<br>no sewers gurglecourse under their feet<br>nor piped potable water flush their long-curdled alimentary canals<br>nor showers chase the clinging cloaca stench<br>nor even un-broken drains<br> tarred roads<br> garbage removal vans<br>find mouth on election platforms</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the towncentre = the bus-terminal churning flipping putrid mud after <br> three-day drubbing storms<br>and bulging humanfleshed trains<br>  run on forgotten time<br>the lav's stinging week-long turds splashvomits the feast of flies</div><div style="margin:10px 0">temples carved with mantric-mouthed hands from the VIIteenth & <br>      VIIIteenth<br>gopurams in congested tiered runaway curlicue rococo-baroque <br> fantasy<br>rose chalk kunkumam ripe mango yellow pitch black indigo<br>bulging fuming thick mascara eyes Zapata moustaches dangling over<br> burgeoning bellies<br>lithe white cows gracing Ganesha's flanks<br>garlands of roses hibiscus jasmine<br>identical buxomy lasses ballooning commodious backs ample thighs <br> their sarees<br>a deliberately clasped transparent veneer of pudeur<br>the jingling nautch girl anklets<br>  vain reminders of Kannagi<br>bangles bracelets armlets tiaras talis earrings noserings fingerings <br> toerings kolusus<br>the prancing stained eyelashes the full lascivious lips<br>and that eternally round-eyed vacant supercilious stare<br> past the invisible sanctum sanctorum<br>the vast sinking steps of the holy tank murky with blodok<br>torn bookmatches ceremonial paper ferns water-lilies lotuses and <br>  centuries-old ooze<br>caked ulcerous washing feet and tick-milling matted hair</div><div style="margin:10px 0">see how trailing reams of wishes and private wants<br>rise in pre-paid puja-thin mantric magic smoke to high heaven</div><div style="margin:10px 0">for Thodti trailing barefeet his dried coconut-stick broom on cracked<br>      macadam<br>in the gutter festering oozing fresh month-old drying turds urine remains of fed-up banana-leaves skins withered jasmine garlands drained motor-oil from scooter-taxis overfed flies lean stray kids fowl cows<br>all that was wonder from afar<br>magic mythic mystery the lingo of gods on earth<br>the brahmin vegetarian clattering-pans over order shouting eating-<br>      hotels<br>as though the heavens deigned to camp down on his doorstep<br>derailed on their celestial inter-galactic circuit</div><div style="margin:10px 0">his mind if he cared to exercise one was of little use to him<br> nor were they to his ancestors<br>called upon only to clean the bottoms off those who<br>shat upon his forefathers for ages<br>his only use for his intelligence<br>   is to know his place<br>minus the alphabet<br> minus arithmetic<br> minus the patinenkilkkanakku<br>minus the grandold Vedic mystic gods and rishis<br>minus the right to think for himself</div><div style="margin:10px 0">only the dullard's right to die daft dull damned<br>and be reborn in the womb of ignorance</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So much for your Godly advice Charioteer Krishna<br>For don't Gods only talk to Gods on Earth</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Detach yourself first then<br>KILL<br>Do not feel for those you kill</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For what lofty ideal the Mahabharatha<br>pitted mythically gambling polyandrous cousins</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is India today a magical-realist myth<br>or a cranking up Indo-Pak Armageddon</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sattva Rajas Tamas</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Sattva Rajas Thodti</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Notes</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sattva: pure intelligence and goodness<br>Rajas: impure mental energy and restless passion<br>Tamas: dullness and inertia</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Blodok or belodok (also beluduh) : Malay for large-eyed goby, found in tropical or<br>equatorial muddy flats<br>Gopuram: the tiered, sculptured towers over the main entrances to Hindu temples<br>Kannagi: heroine of the medieval Tamil epic Cilappatikaram<br>Kolusu: ornamental anklet chains with bells worn by Tamil women<br>Kunkumam: saffron (yellow or red) powder serving as adornment marks of<br>auspiciousness on women's faces<br>Patinenkilkkannakku: the traditionally collective name for eighteen Tamil classical<br>works<br>Tali: usually gold chains worn by married Tamil women round the neck or tumeric-<br>stained cords in lieu of<br>Thodti: a caste name for Night Soil Men</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(© T.Wignesan May 26/27,1997 Revised June 2002 - Paris; From the sequence &quot;Words for a Lost Sub-Continent&quot; in longhand notes (a binding of poems) . ISBN 2-904428-14-3 Pub. in T. Wignesan. Rama and Ravana at the Altar of Hanuman: on Tamils, Tamil Literature and Tamil Culture. Chennai: Institute of Asian Studies,2006 & Allahabad: Cyberwit.net,2008.)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=T.+Wignesan">T. Wignesan</a><div class=q>
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