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The Indiscernible Beliefs

"Walking down the valley of my fears
Some rich voices came from the edge
Of that distant cliff
With a claim to convert us, the heathens
Speaking thus disparagingly of my clan's heritage..

The Hollowness of my race was proved ignorant..


Falling down were those branches of young green hope
From that strict cultured hillock
That once sustained in its rocks
the highness of our beliefs in equality
brought down to the wettest sand was our existence..

The previous dwelling of strong rocks was named hideous..

Held all the colors of our laughter and expressions
that reflecting water, now bounded and controlled
the clouds of prosperity shadowed with care all
the inhabitants
while the lightning fell on our 'lord of the heathen'

baptized as holy was that supreme religion of the majority
overshadowing thus the existence of our lord!

Our Beliefs were questioned.. Our differences challenged..
My eyes were red and misty, staring still with respect
The beliefs of the majority..
With a hope to see differently, my eyes blinked every other second.
Asking to all those eyes reading through the missal

Can religion ever be categorized?
Can individual beliefs ever be destroyed?

Should minority be treated as pariah by the majority?
Should we not chant that distinct name that prospers us in the same way
as Nanak or Jesus does?
Shouldn't we worship our soul, that voice, that guides us throughout silently?
Shouldn't we be spared of all the isolation, even if we follow a different name?

Let our lord be indiscernible.. Let it have no classification.. nor of religion, caste or color.. let us be in a society with classification of 'beings' alone..
Let our candles, incense sticks burn within us in front of our soul
Let it burn all the internal sins first..

Let our indiscernible lord be as it is, dwelling within us,
directing us in the direction which we shall make right..
Our indiscernible lord was made more strong by the acts of the majority..

"Any criticism, howsoever, shall always inspire, irrespective of the means it shall choose to achieve its end through that inspiration.." - The Belief of The Heathen..

Akanksha Chaudhary..

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on my way back to home..i love to see this place..so peaceful..so calm...
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The air was coming from the sky revolving and touching those squinting stars
entering through my window, touching my flowers with that message of approaching
summer.. the essence of the flowers and that air coming from my favorite partly
clouded, partly clear sky.. made up my night today.. I felt so lively in an instant as
essence captured my mind and relaxed me.. life is beautiful.. mystical, approachable and sudden..

Whatever epithets we might be honoring or interpreting life with , the most vibrant, exciting and ultimate would be to call life as 'magical' .. yes, it is magical.. believe me or not.. but if you are the one who follow his instincts and are able to analyze the occurrences in your life.. you will know exactly 'how', 'why' and 'when' something happened in your life.

It's not as easy as it seems? It surely is.. because the greatest attempt required is to cross the milestone of following yourself.. so for those who don't know themselves in any possible manner.. it surely would seem at some point of life, that life isn't going the way we want to but if you know and are able to assert yourself about the happenings by judging them with the framework of 'YOU' as a living being, 'YOUR BELIEFS' as the language guiding your soul, 'GOD' as always being in favor of your prosperity and 'THE WORLD' as a social contract where individuals with similar beliefs would come to live together ..

If you are able to consider these four elements when you sit down to relive some spent moments of love, anger, and friendship.. you would know exactly the motive behind something that happened and that evaluation would allow you to revolve your thoughts where some similar common people/elements/objects/situations would keep coming in your life.. and as the days move on.. you will be able to know what's gonna happen.. not in a way like.. ' Whether I am gonna be getting this or doing that tomorrow' types.. but about the concrete foundations that would make up the kind of life you always wanted..

All began with a belief and All shall end with a belief to Relive..

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Hi! Happy New Year 2006 to all. May all our dreams turn out to
be the most sweetest and cherishable reality through the eyes of
this year. I shall definitely get back to writing once my exams are over.
take care.

(took the above pic. from my place..the view is b'ful at night..
wanted to write on it..but shall do that later..)
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Life after Death!

Life after death is still a big question and possesses a commensurate and inexplicable nature of its own. Over the times many philosophers, writers & poets have presented a combination of optimism and pessimism to discover the possibility of life after death. Christianity is literally the largest of all religions with a following of around 850 million and it does not belong to any particular cultural group.

So according to Roman Catholic doctrine those souls who have done not much good nor many sins enter a place called 'Purgatory' and only after spending a considerable time are allowed to enter heaven. Purgatory also provides a partial explanation of the state of many souls between the individual judgments and having purged away their sins in this intervening period souls would be ready to enter heaven. Those consigned to hell are said to be excluded forever from God's presence and cut off from all happiness.

According to I Thessalonians 4,New Testament

"For the lord himself shall descend from
heaven with a shout, with the voice of the
archangel, and with the trump of God: and
the dead in Christ shall rise first:
Then we which are alive and remain shall
Be caught up together with them in the
Clouds, to meet the lord in the air: and
So shall we ever be with lord."

So even the saints who move directly to heaven on death must await a full realization of blessedness until the end of time when the general resurrection will take place.

But according to Qur'an ,81

"when the sun shall be darkened,
when the stars shall be thrown down
when the mountains shall be set moving
then shall a soul know what it has produced."

The Quran teaches that all happens, including the precise hour of death for each individual, is fixed and recorded in the 'tablets of eternity'. The moment the death occurs, it is customary to tie together the two great toes with a strip of cloth and to burn incense near body. In India, to enable the body to lie with its face towards Mecca graves are dug north to south.

The Quran also mentions eight types of heaven, Firadus being the highest. Jahannam, the hell of Islam, has seven divisions each reserved for a particular class of sinners. Islam teaches that when a good man dies angels with white faces descend towards him. When the angel of death(Malaku-l-Mout) comes to sit alongside the head of the corpse and calls out to the pure soul , it emerges 'like water issuing from a bag' and other angels put the soul in to a shroud perfumed with musk and carry it upwards and when those whom they pass desire to know the identity of this pure soul , they are told his name and the the gates of heaven are opened for the soul.

On God's command the soul is returned to its body, the dead man is made to sit up and is asked about his life's actions. A man with a beautiful face then approaches the dead man and says 'I am thy good deeds'.Then the dead man prays 'O Lord, hasten the resurrection for my sake' unlike the bad man is taken to heaven and beset by the heat and hot winds of hell and squeezed in a narrow grave, he pleads 'Lord, delay the resurrection on my account.'


According to Surah, LXXV

'thinketh man that we shall not re-unite his bones?
Aye! His very finger tips are we able evenly to replace'

Thus Muslims of all sects believe that at the end of the world there will be a mass resurrection at which bodies will be raised and united with their souls. The belief in angels is common to Islam and Christianity, but Islam speaks also of Jinns, a class of beings intermediate between man and angels. These Jinns may be good or evil, the leader of the evil Jinns being Iblis, the Satan of Islam.

According to Hindu religion, the basic moral teachings that are incorporated among the children comes from the extracts of Ramayana and Mahabharata, and hence though hell and heaven have been mentioned in Hindu scriptures and yet there's so much diversity of religions that 'Karma' alone is considered to be the only way to attin salvation. Hell and heaven shall be granted according to the 'karma's' performed during life time, howsoever nowhere it is mentioned about the intentions and perceptions n the thoughts borne by an individual..Sometimes an individual might be jejune n holistic in the innocent sense and yet might be forced to change his course of karma because of another being. So, karma are judged by thoughts or by actiosb alone for actions are but a reflection of thoughts! and thoughts in reality are humane..So, somehow this argument seems to rach to no particular end.

Thus in spite of many ideas contributed by various religions the existence of hell and heaven still remains a big question and in a way could also be considered as a way to proliferate a feeling of good and bad among people and also to fear God by adopting a fair way towards this anthropomorphic sort of life and to have a apposite quantity of roseate charm to travel this journey of life optimistically.

Akanksha

*In reference with the book Living and Dying by Vidya Dehejia

The Living Roads..

She's the daughter of Lakshmi(a maid), Isn't she adorable..

Restriction of thoughts to moments of prejudice

makes the eye of our expressions invidious....

(Some of my friends , I see every day on my way , and well my heart seeks that bit of happiness by seeing they are well every day..and somewhere now my existence means something to them as well...and that means a lot to me!!!!

The kid is so cute..He's most adorable..)

Those Jutting Lips of the Speaking Sky..

Sitting behind those eyes was that girl
embracing herself in a kaolin made negligee
move she could only with the weight
and clemency of the nether world created by the living..


Carrying the varying persona's of people ruling her wishes
locate she couldn't with the people even that easily available
nebula shining only for her existence
scared of reality she could be seen only by lovers of night light..


Feel could she with lord those jutting vibrations of her universe
listen could she those distant whispers of distant love through
her sky
by following her heart beat of necromancy to know about her love..


For the world she shall exist but in clothes of kaolin alone
For her friend 'sky' of vibrations and power to communicate
she kept silent
silent as a hermit with crave only for that eternal being's
voice of worldly origin..


Talked to those forces of nature did she
in her soft, sensitized pidgin Hindi
wanted she to travel to her sky of life to touch those clouds
flowing in the same region for years looking only after her..


To never speak to the world without her love
Was her adamantine swear
Wanted she to fly high as above as her hope n sky allows
realizing that the hell existed but below the standards
of the emotions prescribed by the lord for all living..


To never wear out the kaolin negligee and resuscitate
her breath for the world
Wanted she ever and forever but to wear in
those jutting and falling vibrations from the sky
coming from far somewhere where
as she dwelled to believe
her love resides..


where she lighted her sky called life daily
at the time when her lover will wake up
and carried that brightness to that land
with the wide range of her emotions..

and with that light both of them would be visible
to those eyes not living in nether land
to those not only below on earth
always to those with eyes only of love

But at heights where both the roseate-golden and white-grayish
Clouds of their lovely existence could be seen
living with love to live for love..

Akanksha..

The Pied-a-Terre of Individuals.. ...

Life is but a journey through various moments spent mostly with
the individuals residing in our inner being.

Individuals?

Yes, don't worry, you read it quite well. The Individuals.

But how can we have individuals in our own soul or body or built up
or in that entity that is nourishing and containing us? ,
when most of the times we are not able to sustain even the
identity of what we see and intend to actualize ourselves as...
(Well, saying that one can sustain his or herself exactly the way they
visualize would always remain as an argumentative consensus. So no issues about that here!)

We can acknowledge while dealing and improving through various modes of our existence that there may very well be certain specific or various individuals residing in our own Body, thoughts, mind or being.

By individuals I mean that it is at some point of time realizable by us that we might behave as different persons at some particular stages in our life, different in the sense that we might not behave the way we usually do. And the reason for that unusual behavior comes when that individual takes over our thoughts completely.

These individuals might be of sadness, happiness, anger, joy, guilt, perception, frustration,
Or 'the individual of silence' might also take over us when our way of life seems to be
Difficult n we might feel like that bird of evening whose trying to find that branch where its nest is but because of evening's extra care is not able to do so.

Thus these individuals might rule over our different persona's while dealing with different people but of all the individuals that our countenance reveals,

'the individual Of silence'

might be the most difficult one to deal with for it takes over you when you
Have no succinct answers for those questions that life sometimes so easily puts up in our way.

So, living is not about ignoring your emotions , your anger or feeling of guilt, but to pursue them in chase of an answer , in chase of that individual 'that is you', 'You'
Who is struggling through life's dark corridors with a temerity of consideration n
Not of being rude.
Choose your individual in the same way as we sometimes happen to relate to a meaning of a word only in parts. Like, we chose the word 'temerity' for its confidence and tried to leave behind its rude aspect by saying ' considerate'.

So give yourself some moments and try to extract that depressing and restricting individual of our own self, for it will only be nourishing more n grow healthy with times if allowed to take over one's self for a longer duration. It might make us perceive only one emotion of either complete sadness or happiness then, where chances of former emotion taking over are more.

Your self lies in your ideology that you form with the influence of people , culture, traditions and situations around you.

So, try to put up those individuals of sadness, guilt, frustration aside in that Pied-a-Terre of self-trust, self-strenght, which shall be able to dissolve all the harshness at certain difficult n diffident occasions of your life and yet allow you to be your own individual self of happiness in your own home of your beliefs for -Beliefs and Trust sustains ours existence.


Akanksha..