Ignore impulsive acts

In anger one spits,

And then from regret, pleases.

In tension, one hurts,

And then from guilt, pats.

Bear with them

As their acts were impulsive.

Else you will wind up

Without kin and without friends.

31.12.2008

End with this for the year 2008

The role of intellect

Play instincts help one create things

Sexual instincts help one build things.

Aesthetic senses help one perfect things.

Slavery tendencies help one run things.

The world is not built by intellect

Which boasts it governs the world.

31.12.2008

New Year: significance

New Year’s day!

A chosen day.

We celebrate

That we got rid of the old

And that we pin hope on the new.

Death and birth at the same time.

Should we mourn or cheer?

We see off the Devil

And invite the Angel.

The Angel doesn’t know

That she will turn a Devil

To men’s eyes in a year.

Are we grateful this day? 

31.12.2008

Are we growing strong?^

My father went to school on foot.

I went to school by bicycle.

My son is now going by van.

Are we growing strong or weak?

28.12.2008

Grow grass, not corn

If you want to help someone grow up,

Do it like growing grass in a lawn,

Not like growing corn in a farm

Growing corn expecting a harvest

Will mar the pleasure of your efforts

In case the harvest turns a failure.

The pleasant mind grown out of the helps given

Need not be painted with bitterness

By putting to the test the one you helped.

28.12.2008

Songs of the duck

A duck praised a goose for her rich songs

And wanted the goose to comment her songs,

Which she did as the propriety demanded.

The duck believed true the comments made.

A nightingale was singing alone unheard.

28.12.2008

Woman is heaven

Woman is a heaven to man

And she is barren without man.

Man finds his heaven in woman

And shows her she is the heaven.

Woman for woman is a hell.

Two men together make a hell.

To turn the hell into a heaven,

Man and woman must cross over.

Heaven cannot be a heaven

If it has no inhabitants.

Woman must understand this fact

And accommodate man with love.

28.122008