Chapter : The TWO!

Steps to light!

Turning to the ONE,
filled with remorse, confusion and plight
Arjuna said....
Oh dear i am lost!
please show me the way back to light!

not knowing what is dharma or adharma
neither right from wrong...
not desiring for name or fame or empire...
nor all the pleasures
just lead me to the way
back home, to respite!


Saying thus,
certain only of his uncertainty
unsure of his own might,
sat down Arjuna,
burdened with confusion,
heavy and burning in his plight....

Seeing his sorrow
and yet with a shining smile
The ONE sang words that
bedazzled Arjun with the Truth,
the Infinity, the light....

Wherefrom have you allowed these dark doubts
to dwell and deepen
and weaken your heart?
In the middle of the battlefield
stands the lion whimpering like a mouse...

Drop the excuses and
defamatory irresponsibility!
shake these weaknesses
and get up
to fight with all your ability!


grieving on that which is not worth,
you're misusing words to sound wise!
Neither regret for that which is gone
Nor worry for the one that hasnt even arrived,
trap the attention of the learned,
No! not at any price....

There never was a time
when you or me
or these people didnt exist
Neither will there be such
when we cease to be!

Just as the body
changes from child to youth to old age,
just as you wear fresh clothes...
just so
you change the body,

the seer doesnt get upset
by the apparent sunset!

fire and ice,
pleasure and despise,
touch but the matter
which is everchanging
with patience and endurance
move toward their fleeting demise!!

The wise doesnt lament,
moving through joy and misery
through all that which is changing,
rooted in the immortal-un-changing
with patience an intensity!

For in the untruth there is no feeling
Nor in their lack lies the truth!
One who sees both beyond lack and abundance,
he alone perceives the reality...

Imperishable is the truth-the life
that pervades all this
Nothing has the power
to mutate or mutilate it!

But that which it pervades -
these bodies
is anyway bound to collapse

Knowing the immortal
that sustains it
with certainty,
immerse in the war
Oh son of the earth!

For both those who appear to lose and die
and those who win in glory or vain,
neither know the immortal ONE,
not the slayer, not the slain!