புலி உலாவும் சோலை (Forests where tigers roam)

Read this poem in Kurunthogai , from Sujatha's 401 Kaathal Kavithagal

(குறுந்தொகை பாடல் 237. பாலை தலைவன் கூற்று )

அஞ்சுவது அறியாது , அமர் துணை தழீஇ

நெஞ்சு நப்பிரிந்தன்று ஆயினும் எஞ்சிய,

கை பிணி நெகிழின் அஃது எவனோ நன்றும்

சேய  அம்ம , இருவாம் இடையே

மாக் கடல் திரையின் முழங்கி , வலன் ஏர்பு

கோட்  புலி வழங்கும் சோலை

எனைத்து என்று எண்ணுகோ முயக்கிடை மலைவே

பொருள் :

அஞ்சாமல் அவளைத் தழுவ

என் நெஞ்சம் விரும்பி

என்னை பிரிந்து சென்றது .

ஆனால் என்ன பயன் ?

கையால் தழுவ முடியாது .

எனக்கும் அவளுக்கும்

அதுக தூரம் .

இடையே கடல்போல் ஆரவாரிக்கும்

புலி உலவும் சோலைகள்

எத்தனை என்று எண்ணுவேன் ?


My crude English translation:

My heart left me alone sans fear,
Yearning to hug her .
What can it do, little heart,
My hands can't touch her.
Can't say how many,
Are the forests, where tigers roam,
Stand between us!


Was wondering how many forests were in TamilNadu that time ( more than 1000 years ago!)  populated with tigers.. It's sad to compare with today's tiger population in the world!

(p.s. : Read this when I was missing my wife on a Saturday evening, who is out-of-station :-(  )

Read in Nila's Kavithaigal

தவிர்த்தலுக்கென்றே ஒரு பார்வை வைத்திருக்கிறாய் நீ

தவித்தலுக்கென்றே ஓர் இதயம் வைத்திருக்கிறேன் நான் ..

Uglier sides!

We rarely get to see the uglier sides of our minds. Don't we?

It comes to our notice only when there is desperation. And desperation doesn't arise very often in our very secured lives and it seldom comes to our notice.

We are most of the time under the impression we aren't like that and when it comes to our notice as in a desperation, it leads to bad feeling. A conflict arises then. "Why was I like that when I am not that?", is what buzzes in the mind. It was already there. It just surfaced. So what is the solution? Choose good or ugly based on morals laid out by the society or go by survival instincts? Going by survival instincts is what comes naturally, but we don't want to do that naturally because it hurts human ego. Acting by the morals laid out by the society earns a reputation and wears a mask over your face and you can be comfortable with people. Either way, once you see your ugly side, it is difficult to hide from self. But why call it ugly at all is what I don't understand..

I welcome answers if any!

(p.s.: I really liked Jokers role in exposing peoples uglier side in The Dark Knight)

Escapes...

There is this desire to escape from daily routine, from a relationship no longer alive, and from knowledge which is always becoming stale. You choose one kind of escape, I another, and my particular brand is always assumed to be more worthwhile than yours; but all escape, whether in the form of an ideal, the cinema, or the church, is harmful, leading to illusion and mischief. Psychological escapes are more harmful than the obvious ones, being more subtle and complex and therefore more difficult to discover. The silence that is made up through disciplines, controls, resistances, positive or negative, is a result, an effect and so not creative; it is dead.

There is a silence which is not a reaction, a result; a silence which is not the outcome of stimulation, of sensation; a silence which is not put together, not a conclusion. It comes into being when the process of thought is understood. Thought is the response of memory, of determined conclusions, conscious or unconscious; this memory dictates action according to pleasure and pain. So ideas control action and hence there is conflict between action and idea. This conflict is always with us, and as it intensifies there is an urge to be free from it; but until this conflict is understood and resolved, any attempt to be free from it is an escape. As long as action is approximating to an idea, conflict is inevitable. Only when action is free from idea does conflict cease.

' But how can action ever be free from idea? Surely, there can be action without there being ideation first. Action follows idea, and I cannot possibly imagine any action which is not the result of idea.'

Idea is the outcome of memory; Idea is the verbalization of memory; idea is an inadequate reaction to challenge, to life. Adequate response to life is action. We respond ideationally in order to safeguard ourselves against action. Ideas limit action. There is safety in the field of ideas, but not in action; so action is made subservient to idea. Idea is the self-protective pattern for action. In intense crisis there is direct action, freed from idea. It is against this spontaneous action that the mind is disciplined itself; and as with most of us the mind is dominant, ideas act as a brake on action and hence there is friction between action and ideation.

' I find my mind wandering off to that happy experience of the Engadine (or the Himalayas as we often say). Is it an escape to relive that experience in memory?'

Obviously. The actual is your life in the present; this crowded street, your business, your immediate relationships. If these were pleasing and gratifying, the Engadine( is a long valley in the Swiss Alpss located in the canton of Graubünden in southeast Switzerland.) would fade away; but as the actual is confusing and painful, you turn to an experience, but it is finished; you give it life only through memory. The present being dull, shallow, we turn to the past or look at a self-projected future. To escape from the present inevitably leads to illusion. To see the present as it actually is, without condemnation or justification, is to understand 'what is', and then there is action which brings about a transformation in 'what is'.

- An excerpt from "Commentaries on living" - J Krishnamurthi. I felt this is one common thing everyone experiences. So I thought if the problem is understood, There won't be a need to escape..

Vinnai thaandi varuvaaya

Vinnai thaandi varuvaaya was good! Trisha's characterization was good and consistent till the end. These kind of emotions get rarely portrayed in Tamil films... Personal opinion. Liked it.
Goutham Menon could have made this movie some time before :P
And, man! Trisha is stunning... And obviously couldnt believe its Silambarasan.

p.s: could have named it appaavai thaandi varuvaaya

How mysterious are you?

What's the fun in being predictable? Are you unpredictable is the question.. Complicated and inconsistent responses to situations makes you unpredictable. There is another way - not letting others know you in detail. Brain has evolved to an unfathomable extent that it complicates the responses to situations intentionally making people mysterious about the ways you respond. That kind of responses are being called matured responses by the society. Keeping it simple is not fun it seems. You have to have atleast one more face above your face.
I could rationalize unpredictable responses only as a survival instinct. But brain gets habituated in responding that way even when something doesn't jeopardize its survival. Isn't that hypocritical? People's responses at situations like that are callous. If everyone can live without emotions, it wouldn't matter. Lot of Jokers(played by Heath Ledger,as in The Dark Knight) are required to make people realize what they really are!
People,Hypocrisy is ugly!

ஹைக்கூ ?

ஒற்றை மரத்தடி

காலி புத்தகம்

பேனாவில் மை தீர்ந்திருந்தது.

தாகம் தீர்க்க

கானல் நீரை

நோக்கி நடந்தேன்

அவளுக்காக காத்திருக்கையில்.

காலை இளம்பனி

நதியில் ஓடம்

துடுப்பு இன்றி

நெற்றியின் பொட்டை

சுற்றி வரைந்த

ஒற்றை புள்ளி கோலம்

உன் முகம்

இவற்றில் எவை ஹைக்கூ அல்ல என்று உங்களால் கூற இயன்றால் ,

உங்களுக்கு ஒரு சபாஷ்! ஹைக்கூ எழுத விதி முறைகள் உள்ளன. அறிய விழைந்தால் சுஜாதாவின் "ஹைக்கூ - ஓர் அறிமுகம்" படியுங்கள்.

( சிந்து மேனனின் முகம் போருந்தியதென எண்ணினேன்! தவிர அவரை நினைத்து எழுதவில்லை ! எழுதினாலும் தவறில்லை !)