AN UPINISHADIC APHORISM ON FINITE AND INSPIRED COUPLETS AND HAIKU
न अल्पे सुखम् अस्ति
~छांदोग्य उपनिषद
Anything that is limited is woeful
~Chandogya Upanishad
THREE COUPLETS
The world's wisdom, a narrow, confined stage,
Our words, but a flicker, a fleeting page.
Don't be bound by what you hear and say,
True knowing blooms when thoughts drift away.
When silence reigns, a wonder takes its hold,
Before the boundless, stories yet untold.
THREE HAUKU
Worldly knowledge
That's limited play of words -
Alp Namaiv Etat!
Our words are finite
And, finite is false, woeful
Be not slave to words!
Awakening dawns
When mind's still and quiet – wordless -
Wowed by infinite
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