LEARNING IS LIFE

  ESSENCE OF THE BHAGAVAD GITA IN SIX HAIKU  ~Lalit Kishore HAIKU Assume you are soul - Timeless nonphysical that's Neither born nor dies *** We're embodied souls Beyond body-mind-senses - Body dies, not soul *** Realise soulfulness - Incorporeal essence - Be worldly-detached *** Purify your mind Of worldly evils of mind - Darkness over soul *** Pursuits of desires Lead to anger, delusion Darkness and sorrows *** Just be - nothing's ours - Came empty-handed, so'ill leave - Be simple-n-self-know !

  THE BHAGAVAD GITA VERSE 2.20 AND INSPIRED HINDI MICRO-POEMS ~Lalit Kishore न जायते म्रियते वा कदाचिनायं भूत्वा भविता न भूय: | अजो नित्य: शाश्वतोऽयं पुराणो न हन्यते हन्यमाने शरीरे ||  Inspired micro-poems in Hindi आत्मा /  अजन्मी-है,   नित्य-है /  शाश्वत-है;  अजर-है; अमर-है I ***  आत्मा /  चिर-है,   कालातीत-है /    काया-मरे,  आत्मा-नहीं   -  कदाचित-नहीं I  *** बचपन /  जवानी,  बुडापा  /  अवस्थायें-हैं    नाशवान    काया-की I  *** आत्मा-है /  सनातन, चिर-नूतन /  संसार-का   मोह-त्यागो,    तटस्थ-बनो I  

 Bhagavad Gita as Vedanta Philosophy Text: Inspired Haiku ~Lalit Kishore The Bhagavad Gita is deemed as the foundational text of the school of Vedanta philosophy that propounds the ways to realise the Existential Truth and transcendental purpose of life as union of Embodied Soul with the Supreme Soul.   INSPIRED HAIKU   Existential Truth - The Eternal Absolute Is beyond our mind *** The physical world The material-sensual world Is mortal, unreal *** Outer, appears real 'Coz of ignorance of Truth - That we all are Souls *** The Gita rejects Material-sensual world being False, deluding, dark *** The Gita evokes - Truth is transcendental - Soulful, spiritual *** Body, mind, senses - They are transient, perishable Truth's timeless-n-unborn *** Dharma's soulfulness - Realization through Yogas - Jnana, Bhakti, Karma

 True human dharma is to transcend tamas, rajas and sattva states of mind: Haiku Inspired by Bhagavad Gita ~Lalit Kishore INSPIRED HAIKU  World conditions us To acquire three features – Tamas, Rajas, Sattv ~*~ Tamas - darkness, gloom That’s slavery to senses Reckless chase of lust ~*~ Gross materialism – Tamas path causes confusions Dualities and strife ~*~ Rajas way of life – Passion, pursuit of gains-n-fame For wealth, opulence ~*~ Sattvic way of life Simple and minimal life Wise mindful life ~*~ Truth or Dharma is – Non-physical, soulfulness Beyond three Gunas ~*~ Transcend to state of No-mind, soulful, being-state For bliss, for Moksha ~*~ Own self-knowledge And self-actualization Are ways to Moksha