<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20233489</id><updated>2012-02-12T21:56:29.878-08:00</updated><category term='Advaita vedanta'/><category term='Poetry'/><category term='Hinduism'/><category term='economics'/><category term='life and death'/><category term='philosophy'/><category term='love'/><category term='Global poverty'/><category term='poverty'/><category term='Advaita'/><title type='text'>కవితా! ఓ! కవితా!</title><subtitle type='html'>ప్రపంచమొక పద్మవ్యూహం
కవిత్వమొక తీరని దాహం</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Yoga</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18120906678183195899</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6p_3k5rThD4/Rd0ivMYAbRI/AAAAAAAAAAM/z7sTPp8vcdw/s320/Blog-Fall.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>52</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20233489.post-1268157494098898445</id><published>2012-02-12T13:14:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-02-12T21:47:08.493-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;Ok for a change from the poetic melancholy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've recently read the novel Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse again. I've read it 6 or 7 years ago while at grad school but appreciate it more now. Thought I'd post some thoughts on it.&amp;nbsp;Definitely this book is a classic and recommend reading it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Coming to the point:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Succinctly put, this book is about the journey of man trying to figure out himself and eventually finding himself.&lt;br /&gt;I'd skip the story part as it is better read as is than me trying to summarize it. I'd just focus on the main theme.&lt;br /&gt;The emphasis is mainly on&amp;nbsp;being individualistic and&amp;nbsp;figuring out one's own path - being a non-conformist, reason it out ourselves and find the core of our contentment. Every man has to figure out his path - whatever it is and eventually find solace and contentment in it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Siddhartha lives by three main principles - "Think, fast and wait". These are very profound and I thought I'd like to elaborate on this (credit goes to my mentor and friend Atanu for some elaboration on this).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Think: This perhaps need not be elaborated. Most of us know what it is (although do not how to! - At least I haven't known it for a while. Now of course am practicing how to think). But you probably get the idea. Basically reasoning out various phenomena around as we get curious about the workings of this world. Basic logical/analytic ability.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fast: This is in some sense, living within one's means or living with as much less as possible. The more we want, the more life can be miserable. In reality, one doesn't need much to live happily. My theory is that, we are happy to begin with and then we keep adding stuff to our life - become unhappy and then try to get rid of it slowly. To me the more we subtract, the happier we can be. This is the&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;neti neti&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;(not this, not this) logic. It is more like eliminating all the unnecessary stone such that sculpture manifests itself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wait: It is important to be patient in life to be happy. Not everything is in our control. So, just accept the world as is, do our bit to the extent possible, let things happen naturally. The impatient we are, the miserable our life can be.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The other part of the book of course is how he finds himself and the peace he has been looking for all his life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In any case, I'd suggest this book for all avid readers - and specially if you are in a soul-searching mode and/or in general an introspective kind of a person.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This prompted to me get other books of Herman Hesse - Demian and Steppenwolf. I am reading Demian now and may post some thoughts on it later. I heard Steppenwolf is also very good. It seem as though Hesse's main theme and the protagonists of his novels are non-conformists, deeply conflicted personalities and always trying to figure out who they are. His emphasis on the individual and freedom echo with me quite a bit.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20233489-1268157494098898445?l=pravaaham.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/feeds/1268157494098898445/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20233489&amp;postID=1268157494098898445&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/1268157494098898445'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/1268157494098898445'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/2012/02/hermann-hesses-siddhartha.html' title='Hermann Hesse&apos;s Siddhartha'/><author><name>Yoga</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18120906678183195899</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6p_3k5rThD4/Rd0ivMYAbRI/AAAAAAAAAAM/z7sTPp8vcdw/s320/Blog-Fall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20233489.post-6321704939263149577</id><published>2012-01-23T22:25:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-23T22:27:50.271-08:00</updated><title type='text'>San Francisco</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;A burning heart&lt;br /&gt;And commotion in the eyes&lt;br /&gt;Yet seemingly serene&lt;br /&gt;Every face...&lt;br /&gt;In this beautiful city&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Every word measured&lt;br /&gt;And every step with a caution&lt;br /&gt;Yet in the veil of an alluring trust&lt;br /&gt;Every action...&lt;br /&gt;In this beautiful city&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Limitless ambition&lt;br /&gt;And an aggressive pursuit&lt;br /&gt;In the trail of destruction&lt;br /&gt;Every path...&lt;br /&gt;In this beautiful city&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And all those happy smiles,&lt;br /&gt;The illusion of happiness&lt;br /&gt;Yet enveloped by eerie loneliness&lt;br /&gt;Every story...&lt;br /&gt;In this beautiful city&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;01/23/2012&lt;br /&gt;Some what inspired after listening to the song "seene mein jalan..." from the movie Gaman....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20233489-6321704939263149577?l=pravaaham.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/feeds/6321704939263149577/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20233489&amp;postID=6321704939263149577&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/6321704939263149577'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/6321704939263149577'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/2012/01/san-francisco.html' title='San Francisco'/><author><name>Yoga</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18120906678183195899</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6p_3k5rThD4/Rd0ivMYAbRI/AAAAAAAAAAM/z7sTPp8vcdw/s320/Blog-Fall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20233489.post-7304243271709384812</id><published>2011-11-15T07:24:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-02-12T09:30:06.487-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Advaita'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='philosophy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life and death'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Poetry'/><title type='text'>The dive</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;From atop the precipice&lt;br /&gt;I step forward&lt;br /&gt;And I dive...&lt;br /&gt;Dive deep into the depths unknown&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I close my eyes and feel&lt;br /&gt;The air caressing me&lt;br /&gt;The swish...and my body&lt;br /&gt;Before "I" am smashed to smithereens&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And then -&lt;br /&gt;I shine like the pale blue dot&lt;br /&gt;Suspended in the sunbeam.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yoga&lt;br /&gt;11/15/2011&lt;br /&gt;PS:- Pale blue dot is the reference from one of Carl Sagan's space episodes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p86BPM1GV8M"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p86BPM1GV8M&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20233489-7304243271709384812?l=pravaaham.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/feeds/7304243271709384812/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20233489&amp;postID=7304243271709384812&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/7304243271709384812'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/7304243271709384812'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/2011/11/dive.html' title='The dive'/><author><name>Yoga</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18120906678183195899</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6p_3k5rThD4/Rd0ivMYAbRI/AAAAAAAAAAM/z7sTPp8vcdw/s320/Blog-Fall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20233489.post-653304750446903618</id><published>2011-11-14T22:58:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-15T21:29:13.811-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='poverty'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='philosophy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life and death'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Poetry'/><title type='text'>Let us</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;Weep, weep our hearts out&lt;br /&gt;As the numbers and statistics&lt;br /&gt;Keep coming like the tears unstoppable&lt;br /&gt;Let us weep, weep our hearts out...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After all they are just the numbers...&lt;br /&gt;Numbers of the dead&lt;br /&gt;Dead by innumerous means&lt;br /&gt;Like the opportunities this country has to offer.&lt;br /&gt;Numbers of the hungry&lt;br /&gt;As they wail like the highway&lt;br /&gt;When run over by our luxuries this country has to offer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After all they are just numbers...&lt;br /&gt;Numbers lined up at the burial ground they live in&lt;br /&gt;What they call it their homeland in its eerie silence&lt;br /&gt;As silent as our indifference to the suffering that unfolds.&lt;br /&gt;Spilled out like the bullets dropping&lt;br /&gt;From the arms of the arms traders and economic hitmen&lt;br /&gt;Entrapped in their games like we are in the daily play&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After all...they are just numbers&lt;br /&gt;Numbers that keep piling&lt;br /&gt;Only to become a reference&lt;br /&gt;Of our eventual helpless impotence...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let us weep, weep one last time&lt;br /&gt;One last time...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yoga&lt;br /&gt;11/14/2011&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PS:-&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; line-height: 21px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Bertrand Russell wrote, “The mark of a truly civilized human being is the ability to read a column of numbers and then weep,”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20233489-653304750446903618?l=pravaaham.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/feeds/653304750446903618/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20233489&amp;postID=653304750446903618&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/653304750446903618'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/653304750446903618'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/2011/11/let-us.html' title='Let us'/><author><name>Yoga</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18120906678183195899</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' 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silence...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;With your thoughts lapping on my heart&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Like the notes of the Gnossienne,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I smile resting in peace as you shine on&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Like the moonlight on these still waters.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And bathing in this moonlight I forget&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;That the morning is just a few hours away...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Yoga&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;08-18-2011&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20233489-2637215181535604371?l=pravaaham.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/feeds/2637215181535604371/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20233489&amp;postID=2637215181535604371&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/2637215181535604371'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/2637215181535604371'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/2011/11/moon-rises-on-other-side-of-bay.html' title='The moon rises on the other side of the bay'/><author><name>Yoga</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18120906678183195899</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6p_3k5rThD4/Rd0ivMYAbRI/AAAAAAAAAAM/z7sTPp8vcdw/s320/Blog-Fall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20233489.post-5158805512844450493</id><published>2011-10-16T11:12:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2012-02-12T09:49:43.107-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Global poverty'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='economics'/><title type='text'>Horn of Africa</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;Recently some articles on the famine situation in the Horn of Africa in general and Somalia in particular have caught my attention. Two of them are by Nicholas Kristof and another from the global poverty blog. I am posting the links below:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Glimpses of the next great famine&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/opinion/sunday/kristof-glimpses-of-the-next-great-famine.html?_r=1&amp;amp;hp"&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/opinion/sunday/kristof-glimpses-of-the-next-great-famine.html?_r=1&amp;amp;hp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On top of famine, unspeakable violence&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/25/opinion/sunday/kristof-on-top-of-famine-unspeakable-violence.html?_r=1&amp;amp;scp=5&amp;amp;sq=nicholas%20d.%20kristoff&amp;amp;st=cse"&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/25/opinion/sunday/kristof-on-top-of-famine-unspeakable-violence.html?_r=1&amp;amp;scp=5&amp;amp;sq=nicholas%20d.%20kristoff&amp;amp;st=cse&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Too little, too late&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.globalpovertyproject.com/blog/view/482"&gt;http://www.globalpovertyproject.com/blog/view/482&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is very heart rending to read and feel the conditions of those fleeing Somalis. The common theme in both is the predatory conditions in which Somalis are living and how even attempts of aid are not much successful. You would be very astonished to know those conditions - rape, mass murder, roving bandits and the militia, choice of being killed by one (the marauding militia or bandits) or the other (starve to death). Even in this world today when total food production is more than that can feed its entire population, situations like these can create extreme cognitive dissonance. All articles warn of the impending disaster of at least 750,000 Somalis about to die in the next few months and as I write this piece scores are perhaps dying already. For every sigh of mine perhaps an unfortunate child's breath is stopping in the other part of the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Kristof's description of the situation on the ground is poignant. He brings the human element to the plight. They are people for God's sake, our people (we could have been there if the stroke of misfortune somehow in the larger sc&lt;/span&gt;heme of things hasn't just passed by leaving us untouched) not just numbers and predictions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 15px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;"WHAT’S most heartbreaking about starving children isn’t the patches of hair that fall out, the mottled skin and painful sores, the bones poking through taut skin. No, it’s the emptiness in their faces.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;These children are conscious and their eyes follow you — but lethargically, devoid of expression, without tears or screams or even frowns. A starving child shuts off emotions, directing every calorie to keep vital organs functioning."&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;"&gt;And in another article he writes:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;"... I often write about the need for more family planning, but Somalis have eight children partly because they know that several may die. If we help save lives now so that parents can be confident their kids will survive, family size will drop. Likewise, educate girls and they will have fewer children."&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; margin-bottom: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"&gt;This is an important insight I gained contrary to the conventional understanding on family planning (addressing the &amp;nbsp;root cause of why they tend to have more children). The fact that not many may have a chance to survive could perhaps be a strong incentive.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; margin-bottom: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"&gt;Coming to the blog article by Katy Ho on&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.globalpovertyproject.com/"&gt;http://www.globalpovertyproject.com/&lt;/a&gt;, which rightfully mentions the importance of policy making to prevent famines:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; margin-bottom: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;"In the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.iewy.com/34949-in-world-food-day-message-secretary-general-calls-on-rich-poor-countries-alike-to-invest-energy-resources-necessary-to-win-battle-against-hunger.html" style="color: #da1f2b; display: inline-block; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank"&gt;World Food Day Message&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;given by the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the focus was on the accessibility of food, and the impact of political instability and price volatility.&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;This is an important reminder that along with international aid to relieve famines, we should also focus on policies to prevent famine in the future."&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; margin-bottom: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;And what are those policies?: Irrigation projects, rainwater harvesting, land ownership to women, and preventing the staggering amount of food wastage. Any rational person can agree with these policies - nothing ne&lt;/span&gt;w there. I am not sure how land ownership to women can make it any better as I believe that is not the issue here and for the reasons explained below. It is highly probable that the majority of women that are being referred to are part of the family that owns the land but officially not in their names. In any case that's beside the point - who owns the land doesn't matter but the ownership being protected is what matters. Disclaimer: I have nothing against women. I am just trying to say that the problem hasn't been understood correctly.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; margin-bottom: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;In what could be the main reasons behind the economic success of the western world, Niall Ferguson in his Ted talk mentions (&lt;a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/niall_ferguson_the_6_killer_apps_of_prosperity.html"&gt;http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/niall_ferguson_the_6_killer_apps_of_prosperity.html&lt;/a&gt;), one very important reason being property rights. Now how is this related to the current context?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; margin-bottom: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;In all these articles, there is a passing mention of the political instabilities and the role of militia (Al-Shabab) as to how it is crippling all aid efforts. Kristof in his article gives up&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt; -&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; margin-bottom: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Refugees told me that the Shabab was widely disliked, and one solution to the famine would be stronger international backing for the weak and wobbly government in the Somalian capital, Mogadishu, in hopes of nurturing stability and replacing the Shabab. But that seems improbable."&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; margin-bottom: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"&gt;So, this is where the main problem seems to lie. Most solutions are focused on symptoms and the strategies are very reactive. If people live in constant fear, don't have freedom, nor their property rights protected from marauding bandits and militia, how would any aid programs work or how would who owns a particular resource matter? That freedom is fundamental to development emphasizes my friend and economist Atanu Dey in his book Transforming India,(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.deeshaa.org/2011/06/09/transforming-india-the-book/"&gt;http://www.deeshaa.org/2011/06/09/transforming-india-the-book/&lt;/a&gt;) a book&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"&gt;which explains why India is poor. One really need not be a trained economist to recognize this. But the sad part is that the most obvious truths are always missed from being noticed.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"&gt;Coming back to the topic. In fact, any aid there of would be usurped by these bandits and/or the weak governments - who would maximize their own profits driven by venal motives. Gazillions of aid money could end up in their hands either directly (corrupt channels) or &amp;nbsp;indirectly (via an incremental improvement in the economic situation which can potentially incentivise maximization of the loot). Lot of aid money has been going into Africa and the results are no where to be seen. For both - the seemingly weak governments as well as for the militia this status quo is best for their own benefit - and as always the common man suffers. It would be naive to not assume that significant chunk of aid money circulates between the two and both need the other for their existence.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; margin-bottom: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"&gt;The key &amp;nbsp;therefore is to call spade a spade and eliminate the militia and oppressive governments. If efforts are focused in this direction in a rightful way, there will be a hope to see light at the end of the tunnel. How to get there? One way is to cut off the arms supply to these militia and bandits and perhaps smoke them off from the face of the earth. How much ever easy it may seem, the interests of arms suppliers come into the way - and the very countries that agonize over this poverty problem and pump in gazillions of aid dollars are the biggest arms traders themselves. So, it is not in their interests to end this. A conflict can always be beneficial for the ones fomenting it at the cost of the conflicting parties destruction. Besides, when the powerful are engaged in needless wars over oil and spending there of, why would the death of a malnourished child somewhere in the tiny corner of the horn of Africa be of any significant importance? It is unfortunate that the debate on militia and property rights with stable governments is missing in addressing this scenario. Any funding given to the "weak" governments to make them "stronger"would not reach the people as it is obvious that there is no incentive for them to be strong to begin with. The status quo always benefits the "weak" governments and/or the dictators, and the militia.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"&gt;One may get a sense of satisfaction by this "do-gooding". How much ever giving is necessary, if it does not go to right hands, the status-quo would not change. Understanding the problem is as important as giving.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; margin-bottom: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"&gt;Is there a hope? May be not until until the problem is correctly understood and efforts are focused onto where they should be exerted. And yes, being an optimist, I do hope that can happen in my life time.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; margin-bottom: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; margin-bottom: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"&gt;Yoga&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; margin-bottom: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"&gt;10/16/2011&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; margin-bottom: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20233489-5158805512844450493?l=pravaaham.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/feeds/5158805512844450493/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20233489&amp;postID=5158805512844450493&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/5158805512844450493'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/5158805512844450493'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/2011/10/horn-of-africa.html' title='Horn of Africa'/><author><name>Yoga</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18120906678183195899</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6p_3k5rThD4/Rd0ivMYAbRI/AAAAAAAAAAM/z7sTPp8vcdw/s320/Blog-Fall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20233489.post-475611204604980603</id><published>2011-10-11T09:23:00.013-07:00</published><updated>2012-02-12T09:33:23.951-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='philosophy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='love'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Poetry'/><title type='text'>You and I</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;div&gt;The mortified youthful dreams-&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Flicker like the dim light&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In these dusty lamp posts&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Staring at the changing colors...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The still morning&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Frozen by the overcast skies,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Like the curtness &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Masking the ingenuous smiles&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Seems to paint itself&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;As thoughts in our minds...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Let us then walk you and I&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;On these soft sands&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Listening to the rumbling leaves&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;When the sun showers&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Being one with the colors&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;As we morph into each other&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;When the gross boundaries cease&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Like the writings on these sands&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Dissolving in these waters.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We shrink - our poem grows,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The "I" wanes -&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Our love blooms...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Yoga&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;10/11/2011&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Recommended readings: &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;(somewhat influenced by the poems below)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://public.wsu.edu/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/eliot.html"&gt;http://public.wsu.edu/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/eliot.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;(TS Eliot's The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;We shrink as our poem grows&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;is borrowed from a poem of Tomas Transtromer - see links below&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/07/arts/two-poems-by-tomas-transtromer.html?scp=3&amp;amp;sq=transtromer&amp;amp;st=cse"&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/07/arts/two-poems-by-tomas-transtromer.html?scp=3&amp;amp;sq=transtromer&amp;amp;st=cse&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/07/arts/tomas-transtromer-an-appreciation.html?ref=arts"&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/07/arts/tomas-transtromer-an-appreciation.html?ref=arts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20233489-475611204604980603?l=pravaaham.blogspot.com' alt='' 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die&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Flickering in the stomachs of those&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Millions of motionless bodies&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And emotionless eyes,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And in the crescendo of&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Their hungry sighs...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In the reddish hue of the twilight hour&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;During the few seconds of the vanishing horizon,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In the complexities of conflicting emotions&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And in the torturous presence&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Born to the union of past and future...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;With every infinitesimal breath&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;As (my) life manifests instantaneously,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Petal by petal I lay my wreath...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Yoga&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;10/5/2011&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br 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scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Poetry'/><title type='text'>The Sunset</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;Coloring up the sky,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Laying the golden path&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And calling me silently...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The waters caress my feet&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Drawing me into the presence&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Of the moment intense...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A moment to weep&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And a connection so deep-&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;How pristine, how innocent!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;With the last look that lasts&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;As you go beyond the horizon yonder...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;With a wistful optimism I wonder&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;If these un-reciprocating waters will ever cease&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Giving me that eluding moment of peace...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Yoga&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;10/3/2011&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20233489-7601340787646160625?l=pravaaham.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/feeds/7601340787646160625/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20233489&amp;postID=7601340787646160625&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/7601340787646160625'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/7601340787646160625'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/2011/10/sunset.html' title='The Sunset'/><author><name>Yoga</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18120906678183195899</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6p_3k5rThD4/Rd0ivMYAbRI/AAAAAAAAAAM/z7sTPp8vcdw/s320/Blog-Fall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20233489.post-4666436718872377037</id><published>2011-09-29T20:41:00.016-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-18T01:55:57.704-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hinduism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='philosophy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life and death'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Advaita vedanta'/><title type='text'>Atma Shatkam Follow Up - 2</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;My friend Ishita asks:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt; "I am curious ... How does one apply this in day-to-day life ? Say for someone who is in a financial crisis (or undergoing any kind of hardship for that matter)".&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In addressing this question, I guess its important to now verify the theory and see if there is any empirical evidence that supports it. In the process we can see how it relates to daily life in general. Its not hard at all to find empirical evidence for this if we just start looking around. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;The identification process:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The identification process is pretty straight forward - from our personal experience as well as a glimpse at the profiles in any social networking site can give a good idea. More recently it has taken a more obsessive form of people identifying themselves with all these unreal identifications and even committing suicides (recent news of an IIM-Bangalore student is one of the examples) and a google search on facebook suicides gives enumerous links of people committing "virtual suicides". &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Obsessive identification and downfall:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;When we start identifying at gross level, and take it to an obsessive level, we begin to see great falls - of people in various walks of life. Identification with money and power - The Raj Rajaratnam scandal says it all. Rajat Gupta, Anil Kumar, Rajiv Goel and other cohorts in the game. I am not trying to be judgmental here. Although I don't see any remote possibility of me being so rich or powerful like them, say for example (one can always dream or free! comes at no cost:-)), if I do become like them, there is a likely probability of me falling similarly too. I can't judge unless I am in their shoes. I do respect them a lot. People with razor sharp intellect, hard working, super-human ambition and powerful. The point here is that one can easily get carried away by these obsessive identifications - money, power, status, pride in one's own achievements, etc. The case of Dominique Strauss Kahn also could be seen in similar vein. A man of great intellect, leadership qualities, charisma, and compassion (yes if you see the documentary Inside job you would realize his genuine concern for the poor and the frustration with the way the whole sub-prime mortgages were handled leading to the worst ever economic crisis in the recent times). Until I clean up skeletons in my own closet, I guess I shouldn't be too enthusiastic in judging :-)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Atma Shatkam and Hardships:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Now addressing hardships. The same principles above that may bring people down can also lift them up during hardships. Here the Buddhist idea of "This too shall pass" can be very apt (this applies to even happier times - neither they do last all the time). Obsessive identification with the hardship can end up doing otherwise - a fall from which one can never rise. So, is there an empirical evidence to this as well? The best example I can give is Viktor Frankl who pioneered the development of logotherapy. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;His book "Man's search for Meaning" is a wonderful read. He describes life in concentration camps. How the first day they are stripped to their bare naked selves and all of their identifications so far are destroyed so to speak - all their possessions, family separated (most of them lost their parents, spouses and children), their degrees, their money, homes, everything that could be taken away from them was taken away. Only identification is their &lt;i&gt;jati&lt;/i&gt; (Jews) is what they are left with for which they were forced to suffer. The closest of all identification elimination in its stark reality. They don't even have names in the camp - only a number that is given by which they are identified and recognized. They had no other option but to endure the suffering if they can or perish (and many perished while some survived). It is then after pondering on the existential questions, Viktor Frankl inspires himself and others that although life is full of suffering, and one need not identify with this state of affairs that are never permanent. Life beyond this suffering exists, every man should find the meaning of his life. Anything can be taken away but not the basic freedom of how we react to the hardship.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The other examples are Jonas Salk (inventor of polio vaccine) who refused to patent polio vaccine he invented and gave it away for free, the old wise investor - Warren Buffet, and if we keep searching we could find Zen masters like that in our very immediate circles - just look around and we will find them. I do.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Death also can be viewed dispassionately. Loss of kith or kin, or even fear of death wouldn't make any sense when when we are not this gross body any more. In any case if our life wasn't our choice, then why should death be?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Story of a Zen Master:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Sometime ago I read this small story of a Zen Master in Japan (I believe it was from Eckhart Tolle's Power of Now book). There was this Zen Master living in a small town in Japan. He was highly respected, wise sage and many people sought him for advice and guidance in all matters big and small. One fine day, a neighbor's teenage daughter becomes pregnant. Her parents (understandably) get exasperated, afraid of ignominy and embarrassment, threaten their daughter and force her to confess who the father is. The teenage daughter (understandably) being afraid quickly blames it on the Zen Master. The parents go to the Zen Master, ask him and abuse him and say that he should take the responsibility of the child. His response: "Is that so?". He eventually takes the responsibility of the child raises him like a loving father and time goes on. He is maligned, called a charlatan, and the very society that once respected him shuns him. One day, the daughter realizes her folly and confesses the truth that he is not the father. So, the parents and the daughter come back to the Zen Master and seek forgiveness. The Zen Master's response: "Is that so?" and returns the boy to them.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Moral of the story: Get on with your life being untouched by its vicissitudes. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;It is definitely easier said than done but worth pondering and making an effort to live like one (Zen Master or also called as &lt;i&gt;sthitha prajna). &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Conclusion:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;So, in conclusion an understanding and appreciation of the Atma Shatkam can give us an optimistic view of life, recognize the oneness and the perfection in the functionality of the world (which implies one need not be perfect - the interdependence of this world will take care of one's imperfections), recognize that we can choose to remain unaffected by life's vicissitudes, accept it as is, recognize the futility of things can be easily taken away from us (and given to us also - this is implied), the futility of being greedy, covetous, etc. Once we recognize we are not the vicissitudes we face in life, would it be any wiser to be bothered about them? &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;If we recognize and negate what we are at gross level, then it follows how unwise it would be to focus on those identifications and eventually suffer.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I may have sounded preachy enough already but I guess the topic itself is such. Am writing mainly for my own fun and refining my thinking. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;That said, I am posting a recommended reading below:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.deeshaa.org/2010/10/24/the-pale-blue-dot-2/"&gt;http://www.deeshaa.org/2010/10/24/the-pale-blue-dot-2/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/02/opinion/sunday/how-yoga-won-the-west.html?_r=1&amp;amp;scp=1&amp;amp;sq=vivekananda&amp;amp;st=cse"&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/02/opinion/sunday/how-yoga-won-the-west.html?_r=1&amp;amp;scp=1&amp;amp;sq=vivekananda&amp;amp;st=cse&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Yoga&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;9/29/2011&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Feel free to comment. Keep it neat, decent and respectful&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20233489-4666436718872377037?l=pravaaham.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/feeds/4666436718872377037/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20233489&amp;postID=4666436718872377037&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/4666436718872377037'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/4666436718872377037'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/2011/09/atma-shatkam-follow-up-2.html' title='Atma Shatkam Follow Up - 2'/><author><name>Yoga</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18120906678183195899</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6p_3k5rThD4/Rd0ivMYAbRI/AAAAAAAAAAM/z7sTPp8vcdw/s320/Blog-Fall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20233489.post-1196933514593600449</id><published>2011-09-29T17:54:00.013-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-18T01:56:22.033-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hinduism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='philosophy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life and death'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Advaita vedanta'/><title type='text'>Atma Shatkam Follow Up - 1</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;So this is a follow up post on the Atma Shatkam interpretation written previously. It generated sufficient interest amongst a group of my friends and I feel it requires a separate blog post (or two). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Before that I must admit I am enjoying this intellectual exercise. Engaging in discussions like this carries a danger of being perceived holier than thou - the last thing I want given my own fallibilities! So, just consider these posts as an intellectual exercise written to clarify my own thinking and my own benefit to begin with. So, I appreciate the feedback from my friends. That said, I am open to being corrected - if my thinking has flaws or if I have a wrong idea, do correct me. In short I am not impervious to learning:-).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;My friend Deepak asks via email:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt; If it is consciousness, my natural next question is - what is consciousness or "Atma", I guess I have to become more spiritual to understand that... My analytical mind says consciousness = Mind and thought, but then Verse 1 rules that out - leaving me wondering what it is?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;First off I don't believe that one needs to be "more spiritual" than one already is to address and/or understand these questions. Coming back to the main topic now. Consciousness by itself has been a subject of in-depth study. &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness&lt;/a&gt; gives an idea of this abstract concept. I couldn't really get a clear understanding of it. Seemed too detailed. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;So what is Siva (in Sivoham = Siva + aham = I am Siva):&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I may have been a bit callous in my previous post in interpreting Siva to be the eternal consciousness. I admit I don't have any expertise on Advaita to check what Sankara actually meant. However, thinking and probing the matter further and thanks to a good feedback and discussion from another friend of mine Arun (his troublemaking cynicism notwithstanding:-)), the closest we agreed was that the answer could be energy. The Shatkam does mention it somewhat in the last verse, that "I am the vitality behind the universe". So, the closest answer to "What I am?" could be energy after eliminating all what is not. The energy behind all the nature's existence and operations? And let's see why this could be so. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;So, I went back to freshman Physics textbook (Feynman lectures vol 1) to refer to the chapter on conservation of energy. Quoting Feynman (bold emphasis mine):&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;"There is a fact, or if you wish, a law, governing all natural phenomena that&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;are known to date. There is no known exception to this law—it is exact so far as&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;we know. The law is called the conservation of energy. It states that &lt;b&gt;there is a&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;certain quantity, which we call energy&lt;/b&gt;, &lt;b&gt;that does not change in the manifold&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;changes which nature undergoes&lt;/b&gt;. That is a most abstract idea, because it is a&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;mathematical principle; it says that there is a numerical quantity which does not&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;change when something happens. It is not a description of a mechanism, or anything&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;concrete; it is just a strange fact that we can calculate some number and when&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;we finish watching nature go through her tricks and calculate the number again,&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;it is the same." &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And further: &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;"&lt;i&gt;It is important to realize that in physics today, &lt;b&gt;we have no knowledge of what&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;energy is&lt;/b&gt;...It is an abstract thing in that it does not tell us the mechanism or&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;the reasons for the various formulas."&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The key point is that (total) energy does not change - can neither be created nor destroyed. Now, the Atma Shatkam also in the attempt to define "Who am I?" also eliminates all those identifications that are not permanent (that can be created and destroyed). From the rudimentary knowledge of Advaita I have, it professes that anything impermanent can't be real - it is an illusion. What is real is what that does not change. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Prajnaparomita Hrudya Sutra and Atma Shatkam:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The Buddha also in his Prajnaparomita Hridaya Sutra espouses exactly the similar points as in Atma Shatkam. At some point I will dig up how &lt;i&gt;tarka shastra&lt;/i&gt; (treatise on logic) describes what is the end point after all this elimination exercise. From this, it seems to me that energy is the end point of all this elimination exercise in finding the answer to "Who am I?". And to me it does seem logically consistent and could be explained easily now. In fact, we cannot deny that we are energy and all natural phenomena are because of this abstract concept called energy - which again no one has defined what is! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Isn't it a very enlightening and amazing feeling that we are actually the manifestation of an indestructible natural phenomenon and by being so, aren't we also invincible? Would anything else matter? Aren't we the omnipotent divine beings? Should we really look for someone up there residing in heavens to take care of us? Aren't we the ones who are in control of our destiny? Perhaps a good point to ponder...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Conclusion:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;That said, probing further and further we can fall into the trap of missing the forest for trees and struggling ourselves to find the answer to "Who am I? - energy, then what is energy?..." will no more be helpful. The best we can do is to understand its manifestation and find a pattern. It may be a good intellectual exercise but of what use would it be? &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;So, the right question to ask is how to does this help in understanding human suffering, strife, life, death, the differences we see and relate to daily life. And this is where the question of another good friend of mine Ishita, made me thinking - which I will address in the next post. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Yoga&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;9/29/2011&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20233489-1196933514593600449?l=pravaaham.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/feeds/1196933514593600449/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20233489&amp;postID=1196933514593600449&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/1196933514593600449'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/1196933514593600449'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/2011/09/atma-shatkam-follow-up-1.html' title='Atma Shatkam Follow Up - 1'/><author><name>Yoga</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18120906678183195899</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6p_3k5rThD4/Rd0ivMYAbRI/AAAAAAAAAAM/z7sTPp8vcdw/s320/Blog-Fall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20233489.post-2034935133888219865</id><published>2011-09-27T20:36:00.028-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-18T01:56:45.723-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hinduism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='philosophy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='life and death'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Advaita vedanta'/><title type='text'>Nirvana Shatkam (Atma Shatkam)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;In one of the google groups I am a part of, one of my good friends Deepak, asked me to explain what I think of Nirvana Shatkam (also called Atma Shatkam). So, breaking the tradition of writing only poetry in this blog, I am attempting some prose for the first time...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The Atma Shatkam defines what one is by defining what one is not (typical way of defining some fundamental concepts in East Asian traditions). Zen is also defined the same way in his attempt to bring it to western world by Alan Watts in the book "The way of Zen". The best analogy is a sculptor carving out the sculpture from a stone by eliminating the "unnecessary" (what is not) stone to reveal his intended design (what is) such that &lt;i&gt;what is&lt;/i&gt; manifests by itself when &lt;i&gt;what isn't&lt;/i&gt; is removed. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Also note that it is &lt;i&gt;Shatkam&lt;/i&gt; and not &lt;i&gt;Shatakam&lt;/i&gt; (most websites make this mistake). &lt;i&gt;Shatkam&lt;/i&gt; is a group of six verses while &lt;i&gt;Shatakam&lt;/i&gt; is about a hundred verses. The beauty of Sanskrit - a small error can change the whole meaning.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;The context:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;So lets start with the context of the &lt;i&gt;Shatkam&lt;/i&gt;. Legend says that Sankaracharya composed this when he first met his Guru Govindabhagavatpada. This journey by itself is consdered a very inspirational and eventful journey where Sankara traveled from Kerala in the south to the banks of Naramada in Gujarat. There is a separate treatise on this journey &lt;i&gt;Sankara Vijayam &lt;/i&gt; or "The Victory of Sankara". It is considered to be very inspirational reading (unwavering dedication to achieve your goal). Coming back to the topic: Govindabhagavatpada asked Sankara who he was and he apparently answered him with this six verse group. What an elegant way to introduce oneself! It can be safely said that this is one of the best compositions that deals with the existential question of "Who am I?" in a very lyrical, concise and profound way. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Short Summary&lt;/b&gt; -&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;"I am not this gross body, nor the intellectual self through which I experience this world, nor the ego. I am not what I aspire to be in this world, what I compete to be, I am not my likes nor dislikes, where I come from, my &lt;i&gt;jati&lt;/i&gt;, my institution, nor am I my profession. I have no birth, no death, I am no parent, nor teacher, nor student, I have no relations so to speak. Then who am I? I am eternal bliss, the consciousness that resides in all beings, the vitality behind all living beings". I would define eternal bliss as the "flow state" by which the entire universe works in perfection. The essence of the composition is a profound universal message in the oneness of all and the impermanence of nature. In that sense it makes me sometimes wonder, are we all really different? Are we just manifestation of the same consciousness in different forms from time to time? &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;You could perhaps skip to the concluding part after verse 6 below if you'd like :-)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;More Details&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;A bit more into the details now. If we ponder on it, we realize that the Shatkam follows an interesting structure. It starts with &lt;i&gt;mano budhyahankaara chittaani naaham...". &lt;/i&gt; If it is all about defining what one is not, then why should it matter how it starts? So, let's ponder on this for a bit. Seriously, just ask this question to yourself - "Who am I?" and after sufficient thought you may realize and appreciate the composition. The fact that we even can question implies we are thinking beings. So, it follows: are we our mind? Are we our intellect, thoughts, ego?...and the questioning can begin from there. I will write below what I think of the structure below. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Verse 1&lt;/b&gt;: &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;I am not my mind, my intellect, nor ego, I am not the sense organs. Now it is important to recognize the significance of this. Once we start thinking and questioning, we begin to realize that we experience this world through our sense organs and that is why the questioning is possible in the first place. So, are we the sense organs then? No... (&lt;i&gt;nacha shrotra jihve na cha GhraaNa Netree...). &lt;/i&gt;It continues to say that I am not the five (gross) elements (&lt;i&gt;panchabhoota)&lt;/i&gt; of nature (air, water, fire, earth, ether].&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Verse 2&lt;/b&gt;: &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;I am not the &lt;i&gt;praana vayu &lt;/i&gt;(the breath that sustains life), nor the gross body made up of bones, flesh and skin...I am neither my organs of action through which I sustain myself and procreate. Here Sankaracharya mentions &lt;i&gt;panchakosa...&lt;/i&gt;I don't have a deeper understanding of Advaita to clearly define what it is, so it can be checked from the reference below to get a reasonable idea. I leave it to reader.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Verse 3&lt;/b&gt;: &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Once the basic identification (and negation thereof) exercise of body is done, then the composition proceeds to basic emotions. Am I what I like and dislike? Am I the passions I have, Am I the greed, the cravings, the envy? Am I the arrogance, the frailties have, am I living for aspiring the &lt;i&gt;purushaarthaas?. &lt;/i&gt;Unfortunately it is hard to define the &lt;i&gt;purushaarthaas&lt;/i&gt; in plain English - I leave it to the reader (If you are an Indian, you might appreciate easily and if not write to me offline and I will do my best to explain or simply google!). &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Verse 4&lt;/b&gt;: &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Once the basic emotions are also negated, them am I my profession? Am I a collection of good and bad (deeds that I do), am I the vicissitudes of life that I go through? Am I my daily duties that I (have to) do? All these identifications are also negated. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Verse 5&lt;/b&gt;: &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Then the identification proceeds to &lt;i&gt;jati, &lt;/i&gt;birth, parents, guru, and students (or in today's context - the institutions we come from and/or where we work), our kith and kin, the different roles we play in different contexts. Am I all of them? Do they define my identity? This is negated as well.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Verse 6&lt;/b&gt;: &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;After negating all the above, here the definition of&lt;i&gt; what is&lt;/i&gt; is attempted. I have no form, I have no thought, I have no attachments, nor am I detached, I am not definable, nor measurable - I am all inclusive. I am the eternal bliss and the consciousness behind all beings. A bit more detail here: the state of being without thought has eluded lot of seekers from time immemorial (the more recent mindfulness theory is also related to this). &lt;i&gt;Yoga&lt;/i&gt; is being without thought - &lt;i&gt;yogah chittavritti nirodhakah &lt;/i&gt;as defined by sage Patanjali. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Now come to think of it - how beautiful the composition proceeds! The logical sequence is amazing. Eliminating all the typical identifying factors that we consider when we start defining ourselves. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;References/acknowledgements&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;1. &lt;a href="http://www.svbf.org/journal/vol2no4/nirvana.pdf"&gt;http://www.svbf.org/journal/vol2no4/nirvana.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;2. Inputs from my mother Dr Sita (Retd Sanskrit Prof)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;3. The person who was behind the magical moment I experienced recently and because of whom I heard the rendition of this song and appreciated its meaning.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;4. And of course my friend Deepak...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Feel free to comment. Keep it neat and decent and feel free to write to me if need be.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Yoga&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;09/27/2011&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20233489-2034935133888219865?l=pravaaham.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/feeds/2034935133888219865/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20233489&amp;postID=2034935133888219865&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/2034935133888219865'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/2034935133888219865'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/2011/09/nirvana-shatkam.html' title='Nirvana Shatkam (Atma Shatkam)'/><author><name>Yoga</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18120906678183195899</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6p_3k5rThD4/Rd0ivMYAbRI/AAAAAAAAAAM/z7sTPp8vcdw/s320/Blog-Fall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20233489.post-3564727103948620257</id><published>2011-09-04T19:09:00.007-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-23T10:08:26.490-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Poem for Yamini</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;The falls of Yosemite,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The hue of these Utah mountains&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;When hugged by the evening sun,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The colors of the Yellow stone...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I see them all&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In your chatter, patter&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And in those pranks big and small&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Your cherubic smiles rain on me &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Like the snow showers adorning the lone Shastha.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Your pristine innocence binds me &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Like the silent Pacific bounding these turbulent shores.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;These long roads that never seem to end&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Are like my yearning to see you, and play merrily&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;As you snuggle into my arms...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And those cuddly hugs, the soft pecks&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And the chirpy frolic-&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Are memories that never fade&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Like the notes of some songs&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;That I grow up with as life passes by...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Yoga&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;09-04-2011&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;PS:- Yamini is my dearest niece - the cutie pie born to my best buddy Narayana and his wife (and my dear sister) Divya on Aug 9th 2009. I've been thinking of writing a poem for her ever since I made a long drive camping trip to Yosemite and Yellowstone in July of 2010. I dream of going on a long drive with her - a trip across this beautiful country when she grows up to be a beautiful sweetheart and learn much more than I'd ever know...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20233489-3564727103948620257?l=pravaaham.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/feeds/3564727103948620257/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20233489&amp;postID=3564727103948620257&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/3564727103948620257'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/3564727103948620257'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/2011/09/poem-for-yamini.html' title='Poem for Yamini'/><author><name>Yoga</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18120906678183195899</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6p_3k5rThD4/Rd0ivMYAbRI/AAAAAAAAAAM/z7sTPp8vcdw/s320/Blog-Fall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20233489.post-1878962502461836515</id><published>2011-08-24T22:47:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-26T08:09:30.782-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Home Sweet Home</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; "&gt;When the innocence is drowned&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; "&gt;&lt;div&gt;In the world of incentives and infinite choices,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;When spontaneity is doomed&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In the maze of rules, schools, and growing bruises&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Where happiness is nothing but schadenfreude,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And wistful serenity, a mad man's brood aah!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Where nothing that was yours seems to last&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Friends, love, and mates all gone and lost&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Like the maple leaf shivering&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Holding the shining dew drop&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In fear as you keep walking&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;With your confidence as the only prop...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Come my dear,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;My sweet heart,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;My dear child...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Into the warmth of my bosom,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Come running, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Tearing all the cloaks acquired all along&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Like the falling rain drop&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Dancing happily...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Come to your home, home, sweet home...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Yoga&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;08-24-2011&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20233489-1878962502461836515?l=pravaaham.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/feeds/1878962502461836515/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20233489&amp;postID=1878962502461836515&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/1878962502461836515'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/1878962502461836515'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/2011/08/home-sweet-home.html' title='Home Sweet Home'/><author><name>Yoga</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18120906678183195899</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6p_3k5rThD4/Rd0ivMYAbRI/AAAAAAAAAAM/z7sTPp8vcdw/s320/Blog-Fall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20233489.post-6720492620395917624</id><published>2011-08-09T22:10:00.007-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-13T10:01:18.552-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Me...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;I latch on to a passion-&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Like the froth on the mighty Colorado&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And thrown into the mighty ocean&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;To drown away in the abyss...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Like the last bit of fire&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Flickering in the gusts of winds&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;To fade away in the darkness...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;My life is too short &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;To know who I am&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I live and die in the present&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Like a spark of fire&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Fleeting in the fleeting moment&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Yoga&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;PS:- Not sure exactly when I penned this down. Took it from my (deactivated) facebook acct...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20233489-6720492620395917624?l=pravaaham.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/feeds/6720492620395917624/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20233489&amp;postID=6720492620395917624&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/6720492620395917624'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/6720492620395917624'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/2011/08/me.html' title='Me...'/><author><name>Yoga</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18120906678183195899</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6p_3k5rThD4/Rd0ivMYAbRI/AAAAAAAAAAM/z7sTPp8vcdw/s320/Blog-Fall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20233489.post-6585987477317620731</id><published>2011-08-07T14:44:00.012-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-10T07:07:26.690-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Poor man</title><content type='html'>I am the silent water fall of Big Sur,&lt;div&gt;I can only see the sun and moon setting...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Behind me they say is the California verdure&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;That I can never dream of knowing...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I shiver in these cold nights&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Scared of the song,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The dirge I sing for these waves&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Torn asunder and devoured before long&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And I become the undertaker&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Of those who could never make it...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In the (wall) "street" games that the gods play&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Trapped by the naked truth &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;That never seems to turn away...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Yoga&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;8/7/2011&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Somewhat inspired from the documentary "The inside job", the economic crisis...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20233489-6585987477317620731?l=pravaaham.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/feeds/6585987477317620731/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20233489&amp;postID=6585987477317620731&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/6585987477317620731'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/6585987477317620731'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/2011/08/poor-man.html' title='Poor man'/><author><name>Yoga</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18120906678183195899</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6p_3k5rThD4/Rd0ivMYAbRI/AAAAAAAAAAM/z7sTPp8vcdw/s320/Blog-Fall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20233489.post-8613361445591233480</id><published>2011-07-16T10:28:00.004-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-10T07:28:51.304-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Wail my Mother...Wail</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;As your people rip&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Your breast they fed on&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Bleeding you to death&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;As your children&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Emaciated, moan in agony&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Like the dead leaves when trampled on &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Wail...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;As the skewer is nailed into your flesh&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;To be eaten bit by bit&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;With the wine of your blood aside&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Wail my Mother,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Wail...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Hoping a son worthy&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;May conduct your funeral&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And a mournful dirge&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Breaks the silence of your wail no more..&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Yoga&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;07/13/2011 (been very disturbed by the latest Mumbai blasts).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20233489-8613361445591233480?l=pravaaham.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' 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నింపుకున్న&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;ఈ యామినిలో&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;విరిగిన మనసులతో &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;విసిగిన మనుషుల&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;పార్టీల ప్రేలాపనల్లో &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;ఆనందం శఠిన్చే వేళ-&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;ఆ  చరమ గీతానికి &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;పల్లవి కూరుస్తూ &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;పాడవా...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;ఒక్క పాట!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;05/18/2011&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;యోగా &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20233489-3206079279573750267?l=pravaaham.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/feeds/3206079279573750267/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20233489&amp;postID=3206079279573750267&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/3206079279573750267'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/3206079279573750267'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/2011/05/blog-post_17.html' title='చరమ గీతం'/><author><name>Yoga</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18120906678183195899</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6p_3k5rThD4/Rd0ivMYAbRI/AAAAAAAAAAM/z7sTPp8vcdw/s320/Blog-Fall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20233489.post-278629714131896035</id><published>2011-05-01T13:31:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-01T13:45:56.152-07:00</updated><title type='text'>అముద్రిత కావ్యం</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;కన్నీటి అలలు &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;చెరిపేస్తున్న కలలు&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;నా గుండెల్లో దాగిన &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;అముద్రిత కావ్యాలు&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;-యోగా&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;PS:-నా ఆప్తుడు, స్నేహితుడు మూలా సుబ్బు కధ  చదివాకా తట్టిన కవిత...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;http://www.koumudi.net/Monthly/2011/may/may_2011_kadhakoumudi_2.pdf&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20233489-278629714131896035?l=pravaaham.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link 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 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;నేను కాలి  తెరలు తెరలు గా &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;తరిగి పోతూ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;నీ నర నరాల్లో సమ్మిళితమై...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;కృంగి కృశించి పోతుంటే &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;నీకు ఆనందం! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;నా తావి ఉన్నంతవరకే &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;నీ మోవి కి, నాకూ ముడి&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;******************&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span 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href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/2011/02/blog-post.html' title='ప్రవాహం'/><author><name>Yoga</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18120906678183195899</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6p_3k5rThD4/Rd0ivMYAbRI/AAAAAAAAAAM/z7sTPp8vcdw/s320/Blog-Fall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20233489.post-1609745642743122027</id><published>2010-01-10T11:27:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-21T12:46:06.614-08:00</updated><title type='text'>నక్షత్ర వర్షం (Translation included)</title><content type='html'>ఆకాశమా!&lt;br /&gt;వర్షించు నక్షత్రాల్ని-&lt;br /&gt;ఎక్కడో నిశీధి గొన్న&lt;br /&gt;యోసమిటీ అడవుల్లోనో&lt;br /&gt;టొరోవీప్ ఎడారుల్లోనో కాదు..&lt;br /&gt;ఈ మిల్పీటస్ కొండల నడుమ,&lt;br /&gt;సిలికాన్ లోయల్లోనూ..&lt;br /&gt;వర్షించు...&lt;br /&gt;వర్షించు నక్షత్రాల్ని...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ప్రతి మునిమాపు వేళ లో-&lt;br /&gt;ఆ రంగులు చిదిమిన మేఘాలు,&lt;br /&gt;అలా నవ్వుతూ శఠించి పోయే-&lt;br /&gt;పేదరికపు కల్లాపు జల్లి&lt;br /&gt;అలా నీ దారిన పారిపోయే&lt;br /&gt;ఆ మేఘాల తెరలను ఛేదిస్తూ&lt;br /&gt;వర్షించు నక్షత్రాల్ని...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;పొద్దుపొడవగానే పొంచి ఉన్న&lt;br /&gt;పేదరికపు చీకట్లని,&lt;br /&gt;నా నుంచి నన్నే దూరం చేసే&lt;br /&gt;ఈ పేదరికపు చీకట్లని,&lt;br /&gt;నన్ను భయపెట్టి కృంగదీసే&lt;br /&gt;ఈ చీకట్లని-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ఎదుర్కోనే శక్తినున్మేషిస్తూ&lt;br /&gt;వర్షించు నక్షత్రాల్ని-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ఎక్కడో నిశీధి గొన్న&lt;br /&gt;యోసమిటీ అడవుల్లోనో&lt;br /&gt;టొరోవీప్ ఎడారుల్లోనో కాదు-&lt;br /&gt;నా ముంగిట్లో వర్షించు...&lt;br /&gt;వర్షించు నక్షత్రాల్ని&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;యోగానంద్&lt;br /&gt;10/05/09&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "&gt;A very rudimentary one (not as good as in original Telugu but bear with me...)..I might be editing more...as I go along..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Translation:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Oh the skies!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rain the stars (tonight)-&lt;br /&gt;Not in the isolated serenity&lt;br /&gt;Of the Yosemite forests&lt;br /&gt;Or the Toroweep desert...&lt;br /&gt;In the midst of these Milpitas hills&lt;br /&gt;In the Silicon Valley&lt;br /&gt;Rain..&lt;br /&gt;Rain the stars&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In every twilight hour&lt;br /&gt;Ripping through those clouds-&lt;br /&gt;Those clouds that spray the "colors",&lt;br /&gt;Those clouds with that feigning smiles&lt;br /&gt;That betray and run away,&lt;br /&gt;Those very clouds that sprinkle&lt;br /&gt;Showers of poverty in my frontyard&lt;br /&gt;And trail away in your path-&lt;br /&gt;Ripping through them...&lt;br /&gt;Rain the stars...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rain the stars&lt;br /&gt;To bless me with the courage&lt;br /&gt;To face-&lt;br /&gt;On the onset of every dawn-&lt;br /&gt;The darkness of poverty that engulfs me,&lt;br /&gt;That separates me from myself,&lt;br /&gt;That scares and emaciates me...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh the skies!&lt;br /&gt;Rain the stars...&lt;br /&gt;Rain the stars (tonight)-&lt;br /&gt;Not in the isolated serenity&lt;br /&gt;Of Yosemite forests&lt;br /&gt;Or the Toroweep desert...&lt;br /&gt;In the frontyard of my home,&lt;br /&gt;My sweet home...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rain...&lt;br /&gt;Rain the stars...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20233489-1609745642743122027?l=pravaaham.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/feeds/1609745642743122027/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20233489&amp;postID=1609745642743122027&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link 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(Attempted) Translation of What a wonderful World Song</title><content type='html'>నే చూస్తూ ఉంటా-&lt;br /&gt;ఆ పచ్చని చెట్లు,&lt;br /&gt;ఆ ఎర్ర గులాబీలూ,&lt;br /&gt;నే చూస్తూ ఉంటా అవి వికసించటం&lt;br /&gt;నా కోసం, నీ కోసం...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;నాలో నేననుకుంటూ ఉంటా...&lt;br /&gt;"ఎంత అద్భుత ప్రపంచం!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;నే చూస్తూ ఉంటా-&lt;br /&gt;ఆ నీలి ఆకాశం,&lt;br /&gt;ఆ తెల్లటి మేఘాలు,&lt;br /&gt;ఈ వెలుగుజిమ్మే చక్కటి పగలు&lt;br /&gt;ఈ పవిత్ర మైన చిక్కటి రేయి...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;నాలో నేననుకుంటూ ఉంటా...&lt;br /&gt;"ఎంత అద్భుత ప్రపంచం!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ఆ రంగుల ఇంద్రధనుస్సు-&lt;br /&gt;ఆకాశంలో ఎంత అందం!&lt;br /&gt;అవే రంగులు జనాల మోముల్లో&lt;br /&gt;కూడా అంత అందం!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;నే చూస్తూ ఉంటా&lt;br /&gt;ఆ స్నేహితుల చేతి కలయికలు&lt;br /&gt;ఆ "బావున్నావా" అని పలకరింతలు...&lt;br /&gt;నిజానికి "నువ్వంటే ఇష్టమ" ని చెప్పటాలు!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;నే వింటూ ఉంటా&lt;br /&gt;ఆ చంటిపిల్లల రాగాలు&lt;br /&gt;నే చూస్తూ ఉంటా వాళ్ళు పెరిగి పెద్దవడం-&lt;br /&gt;ఎన్నో నేర్చుకుంటారు&lt;br /&gt;నేనెన్నటికీ నేర్వలేనివి...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;నాలో నేననుకుంటూ ఉంటా...&lt;br /&gt;"ఎంత అద్భుత ప్రపంచం!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ఆ...నేననుకుంటూ ఉంటా...&lt;br /&gt;"ఎంత అద్భుత ప్రపంచం!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-యోగానంద్&lt;br /&gt;10/07/09&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"What a wonderful world" అన్న లూయిస్ ఆర్మ్ స్ట్రాంగ్ (Louis Armstrong) గీతానికి అనువాద ప్రయత్నం...ఎంత ఫలించిందన్నదీ చదువరులే చెప్పాలి. ఆ పాట యూ ట్యూబ్ లో వినొచ్చు:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnRqYMTpXHc&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20233489-9188623400622466203?l=pravaaham.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/feeds/9188623400622466203/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20233489&amp;postID=9188623400622466203&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/9188623400622466203'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/9188623400622466203'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/2009/10/blog-post.html' title='ఎంత అద్భుత ప్రపంచం! (Attempted) Translation of What a wonderful World Song'/><author><name>Yoga</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18120906678183195899</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6p_3k5rThD4/Rd0ivMYAbRI/AAAAAAAAAAM/z7sTPp8vcdw/s320/Blog-Fall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20233489.post-8210669478197327283</id><published>2009-05-11T09:59:00.006-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-16T22:51:00.565-07:00</updated><title type='text'>నిప్పురవ్వ</title><content type='html'>మోహమనే సముద్రం లో&lt;br /&gt;ములిగిపోయాను-&lt;br /&gt;ప్రేమ అనే అగ్ని లో&lt;br /&gt;కాలి పోయాను-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;సంస్కరించబడి,&lt;br /&gt;ఆ అగ్నిగర్భం లోంచే-&lt;br /&gt;నిలుపు లేని క్షణాలలో&lt;br /&gt;నిలువలేని నిప్పురవ్వలా...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;యోగా&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Translation:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the ocean of infatuation-&lt;br /&gt;I was drowned&lt;br /&gt;and&lt;br /&gt;In the fire of love-&lt;br /&gt;I was burned&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cleansed and reborn&lt;br /&gt;In that womb of fire..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;None but a spark&lt;br /&gt;fleeting in the fleeting moment...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20233489-8210669478197327283?l=pravaaham.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/feeds/8210669478197327283/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20233489&amp;postID=8210669478197327283&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/8210669478197327283'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/8210669478197327283'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/2009/05/blog-post.html' title='నిప్పురవ్వ'/><author><name>Yoga</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18120906678183195899</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6p_3k5rThD4/Rd0ivMYAbRI/AAAAAAAAAAM/z7sTPp8vcdw/s320/Blog-Fall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20233489.post-8299212705181010784</id><published>2007-07-25T12:09:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-10T19:51:51.095-07:00</updated><title type='text'>వింత!</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;కళ్ళు తెరిచి వెతికిన నిజం&lt;br /&gt;కల్లగానే ఊరించింది&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;కనువిప్పు కలిగినపుడు&lt;br /&gt;మాత్రం-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;కళ్ళు మూసుకున్నాయి,&lt;br /&gt;హృదయ గవాక్షాలు&lt;br /&gt;తెరుచుకున్నాయి!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;యోగానంద్&lt;br /&gt;07/26/07&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Translation (attempted):&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Wonder!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Searching for the truth&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;With eyes wide open&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Was always an alluring illusion&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;But when the truth dawned on me...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21px;"&gt;Eyes were closed...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21px;"&gt;And my heart opened!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20233489-8299212705181010784?l=pravaaham.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/feeds/8299212705181010784/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20233489&amp;postID=8299212705181010784&amp;isPopup=true' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/8299212705181010784'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/8299212705181010784'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/2007/07/blog-post.html' title='వింత!'/><author><name>Yoga</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18120906678183195899</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6p_3k5rThD4/Rd0ivMYAbRI/AAAAAAAAAAM/z7sTPp8vcdw/s320/Blog-Fall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20233489.post-965451667703624419</id><published>2007-04-29T13:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-29T13:19:55.186-07:00</updated><title type='text'>సెకోయా</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;సెకోయా సెకోయా &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;అంతెత్తెలా ఎదిగిపోయావ్?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;కలకాలం పచ్చగా ఎలా ఉంటావు?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;"అగ్ని గర్భం లో పుట్టాను,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;ఒంటరిని...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;ఆ సూరీడే నా స్నేహితుడు.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;నా జీవితమంతా పైకే చూస్తుంటా...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;మరోలా ఉండగలనా!"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;04-29-07&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;యోగానంద్&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;PS: ఇస్మాయిల్ గారి "సెలయేరు"  కవిత స్ఫూర్తి తో...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20233489-965451667703624419?l=pravaaham.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' 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src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6p_3k5rThD4/Rd0ivMYAbRI/AAAAAAAAAAM/z7sTPp8vcdw/s320/Blog-Fall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20233489.post-6167545323139525994</id><published>2007-03-29T21:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-29T21:04:10.454-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Haiku 11</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;కంట నీరు&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;పెదవి దాకా చేరి...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;చిరునవ్వైపోతోంది:-)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;03-29-07&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;యోగానంద్&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20233489-6167545323139525994?l=pravaaham.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/feeds/6167545323139525994/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20233489&amp;postID=6167545323139525994&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/6167545323139525994'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/6167545323139525994'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/2007/03/haiku-11.html' title='Haiku 11'/><author><name>Yoga</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18120906678183195899</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6p_3k5rThD4/Rd0ivMYAbRI/AAAAAAAAAAM/z7sTPp8vcdw/s320/Blog-Fall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20233489.post-7037825056957015202</id><published>2007-03-29T21:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-29T21:01:28.835-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Haiku 10</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;కంట నీరు&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;గుండె దాకా జారి&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;ఆవిరైపోతోంది...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;03-29-06&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;యోగానంద్&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20233489-7037825056957015202?l=pravaaham.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/feeds/7037825056957015202/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20233489&amp;postID=7037825056957015202&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/7037825056957015202'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/7037825056957015202'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/2007/03/haiku-10.html' title='Haiku 10'/><author><name>Yoga</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18120906678183195899</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6p_3k5rThD4/Rd0ivMYAbRI/AAAAAAAAAAM/z7sTPp8vcdw/s320/Blog-Fall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20233489.post-1699496563130325648</id><published>2007-03-02T04:19:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-03-02T04:23:53.165-08:00</updated><title type='text'>దగ్గు</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;దగ్గుతున్నాడు రోగి&lt;br /&gt;అసలు ఆపుకోలేకుండా-&lt;br /&gt;మెల్లగా క్షిణించుకు పోతున్నాడు,&lt;br /&gt;గుండెల్లో మండుతున్న&lt;br /&gt;కల్మషమంతాబైటికొచ్చేస్తోంది,&lt;br /&gt;తేలిగ్గా ఉంటోంది-&lt;br /&gt;అలానే క్షిణించి పోతున్నాడు&lt;br /&gt;అసలాపుకోలేకుండా దగ్గుతున్నాడు...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ఈ చావు బతుకుల కొట్లాట లో&lt;br /&gt;ప్రతి దగ్గు తరవాత&lt;br /&gt;మరో జన్మెత్తినట్టు&lt;br /&gt;ఆనంద పడిపోతున్నాడు!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3-02-07&lt;br /&gt;యోగానంద్&lt;br /&gt;PS:- అసలు నిద్ర కూడా పట్టలేనంతగా దగ్గుతున్నాను ఇప్పుడు :-( (ఇది రాసిన సమయం లో)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20233489-1699496563130325648?l=pravaaham.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/feeds/1699496563130325648/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20233489&amp;postID=1699496563130325648&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/1699496563130325648'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/1699496563130325648'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/2007/03/blog-post_02.html' title='దగ్గు'/><author><name>Yoga</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18120906678183195899</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6p_3k5rThD4/Rd0ivMYAbRI/AAAAAAAAAAM/z7sTPp8vcdw/s320/Blog-Fall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20233489.post-2900145999018828417</id><published>2007-03-02T03:57:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-03-16T05:37:22.925-07:00</updated><title type='text'>నిరీక్షణ</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;అర్ధం కాని కవితలో&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;వ్యర్థమైన పదచిత్రం లా&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;చిక్కిపోయిన మనసు కి-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;తెల్లని కాన్వాసు పై&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;పూర్తి కాని ఒక చిత్రం లా&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;అస్పష్టమైన భావం!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;కవెప్పుడు స్వేచ్ఛనిస్తాడో!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;చిత్రకారుడెప్పుడు పూర్తి చేస్తాడో!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;3-02-07&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;యోగానంద్&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20233489-2900145999018828417?l=pravaaham.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/feeds/2900145999018828417/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20233489&amp;postID=2900145999018828417&amp;isPopup=true' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' 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style="font-size:130%;"&gt;మమేకమవుతూ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;చెట్టుకొమ్మలు...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;2-28-07&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;యోగానంద్&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20233489-6532435474921792313?l=pravaaham.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/feeds/6532435474921792313/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20233489&amp;postID=6532435474921792313&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/6532435474921792313'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/6532435474921792313'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/2007/02/haiku-9.html' title='Haiku-9'/><author><name>Yoga</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18120906678183195899</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6p_3k5rThD4/Rd0ivMYAbRI/AAAAAAAAAAM/z7sTPp8vcdw/s320/Blog-Fall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20233489.post-7785443230657799956</id><published>2007-02-28T15:30:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-03-29T21:05:58.882-07:00</updated><title type='text'>ఓ టీ తాగుతున్న సమయం లో...</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;కథ లోని పాత్ర &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;బాలేదని&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;పాఠకుడి ఏడుపు&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;రోడ్డు మీద రాయి&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;తగిలిందని&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;పథికుడి ఏడుపు&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;***&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;తన చేతిలో కప్పు &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;ఖాళీ చేసి&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;పిపాసి మౌనంగా నవ్వు...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;2-28-07&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;యోగానంద్&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20233489-7785443230657799956?l=pravaaham.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/feeds/7785443230657799956/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20233489&amp;postID=7785443230657799956&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/7785443230657799956'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/7785443230657799956'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/2007/02/blog-post_28.html' title='ఓ టీ తాగుతున్న సమయం లో...'/><author><name>Yoga</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18120906678183195899</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6p_3k5rThD4/Rd0ivMYAbRI/AAAAAAAAAAM/z7sTPp8vcdw/s320/Blog-Fall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20233489.post-9092891933981430690</id><published>2007-02-22T00:00:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-02-27T14:25:07.155-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Haiku-8</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;పోతున్న సూరీడు,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;సముద్రం లో దారి-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;వలసపోతున్న పక్షులు...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;2-25-07&lt;br /&gt;యోగానంద్&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;PS: ముందు రాసిన హైకూ సవరించ మని చెప్పిన స్నేహితుడు సుబ్బు (మూలా సుబ్రహ్మణ్యం) కి ధన్యవాదాలతో!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20233489-9092891933981430690?l=pravaaham.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/feeds/9092891933981430690/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20233489&amp;postID=9092891933981430690&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/9092891933981430690'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/9092891933981430690'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/2007/02/haiku-8.html' title='Haiku-8'/><author><name>Yoga</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18120906678183195899</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6p_3k5rThD4/Rd0ivMYAbRI/AAAAAAAAAAM/z7sTPp8vcdw/s320/Blog-Fall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20233489.post-4574879045983242850</id><published>2007-02-21T20:56:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-03-02T04:00:28.416-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Waterfall (Photography)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_6p_3k5rThD4/Rd0ivMYAbRI/AAAAAAAAAAM/z7sTPp8vcdw/s1600-h/Blog-Fall.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5034218152641195282" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_6p_3k5rThD4/Rd0ivMYAbRI/AAAAAAAAAAM/z7sTPp8vcdw/s320/Blog-Fall.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;My Buddy Raghuveer's Photography....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;He allowed me to use this as my blog display pic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Feel free to visit his link at:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.photo.net/photos/Raghuveer%20Makala" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.photo.net/photos&lt;wbr&gt;/Raghuveer Makala&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20233489-4574879045983242850?l=pravaaham.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/feeds/4574879045983242850/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20233489&amp;postID=4574879045983242850&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' 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width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20233489.post-545086571128955701</id><published>2007-02-17T21:36:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2007-02-20T00:54:23.075-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Haiku-7</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;మబ్బులన్నీ పోయాయి&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;ఆకాశం-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;నిర్మలంగా...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;2-17-07&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;యోగానంద్&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20233489-545086571128955701?l=pravaaham.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/feeds/545086571128955701/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20233489&amp;postID=545086571128955701&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/545086571128955701'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/545086571128955701'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/2007/02/haiku-7.html' title='Haiku-7'/><author><name>Yoga</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18120906678183195899</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6p_3k5rThD4/Rd0ivMYAbRI/AAAAAAAAAAM/z7sTPp8vcdw/s320/Blog-Fall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20233489.post-1999357609887692810</id><published>2007-02-17T18:52:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-02-21T12:35:09.870-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Haiku-6</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;వాన చినుకులు-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;అద్దం మీద జారుతూ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;ఏవేవో బొమ్మలేస్తున్నాయి&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;2-17-07&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;యోగానంద్&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20233489-1999357609887692810?l=pravaaham.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/feeds/1999357609887692810/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20233489&amp;postID=1999357609887692810&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/1999357609887692810'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/1999357609887692810'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/2007/02/haiku-6.html' title='Haiku-6'/><author><name>Yoga</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18120906678183195899</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6p_3k5rThD4/Rd0ivMYAbRI/AAAAAAAAAAM/z7sTPp8vcdw/s320/Blog-Fall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20233489.post-7504616888681452374</id><published>2007-02-15T21:24:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-02-21T12:35:33.419-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Haiku-5</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;తెల్లారుతూనే 880 మీద పరుగు...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;ప్రశాంతంగా సినీవాలి...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;అందరి కళ్ళ కిందా నిదురిస్తూ!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;2-15-07&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;యోగానంద్&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;PS: 880 అంటే Interstate Highway 880, అని SF Bay Area లో San Jose ని Sanfrancisco కి కలిపే ఒక Highway(Freeway). ఈ కళ్ళ కింద సినీవాలి పద చిత్రం ఝుంపా లాహిరి తన కథల సంపుటి (Interpreter of Maladies) లో ఒక కథ లో చెప్పింది. ఆ పద చిత్రాన్నే ఇక్కడ నేను వాడాను. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20233489-7504616888681452374?l=pravaaham.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/feeds/7504616888681452374/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20233489&amp;postID=7504616888681452374&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/7504616888681452374'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/7504616888681452374'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/2007/02/haikoo-5.html' title='Haiku-5'/><author><name>Yoga</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18120906678183195899</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6p_3k5rThD4/Rd0ivMYAbRI/AAAAAAAAAAM/z7sTPp8vcdw/s320/Blog-Fall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20233489.post-6293783547674562415</id><published>2007-02-15T10:51:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-02-21T01:29:46.375-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Haiku-4</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;అంతం లేని రోడ్డది-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;పొడుగునా "రెడ్ లైట్లు"...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;అందరూ ఆగి, ఏగిపోతున్నారు.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;2-15-07&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;యోగానంద్&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20233489-6293783547674562415?l=pravaaham.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/feeds/6293783547674562415/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20233489&amp;postID=6293783547674562415&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/6293783547674562415'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/6293783547674562415'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/2007/02/haikoo-4.html' title='Haiku-4'/><author><name>Yoga</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18120906678183195899</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6p_3k5rThD4/Rd0ivMYAbRI/AAAAAAAAAAM/z7sTPp8vcdw/s320/Blog-Fall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20233489.post-3435729653248882935</id><published>2007-02-11T10:13:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2007-02-17T19:53:25.830-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Haiku-3</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;లైబ్రరీ నిశ్శబ్దం లో&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;పుటల చప్పుడు-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;ఒక దాని తరవాత ఒకటి...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;2-11-07&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;యోగానంద్&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20233489-3435729653248882935?l=pravaaham.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/feeds/3435729653248882935/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20233489&amp;postID=3435729653248882935&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/3435729653248882935'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/3435729653248882935'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/2007/02/haikoo-3.html' title='Haiku-3'/><author><name>Yoga</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18120906678183195899</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6p_3k5rThD4/Rd0ivMYAbRI/AAAAAAAAAAM/z7sTPp8vcdw/s320/Blog-Fall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20233489.post-1319672228411350778</id><published>2007-02-11T00:28:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-02-15T23:39:36.368-08:00</updated><title type='text'>ఆమె</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;నిండు పున్నమి వేళ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;పం&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;డు వెన్నెల అలిగిందట! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;చంద్రుడు "తన అందం" తో, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;గర్వం తో&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;ఇంకెవరి మీదో మనసుపడి&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;అంబరమంతా చెలరేగిపోతున్నాడట!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;అసూయతో రగిలిపోతున్న&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;వెన్నెల-&lt;br /&gt;ఆమెను కప్పేసిందట, కమ్మేసిందట!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;అమాయకురాలు!&lt;br /&gt;వెన్నెల్లేని వన్నె లాడి తో-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;వన్నె లేని సంగమం లో-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;దివి లాభం లేదని&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;భువి కేగాయట,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;ఆమె కన్నుల్లోనే ఉండిపోదామని &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;తరలొచ్చేసాయట తారలు!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;ఉన్న ఆ ఒంటరి మేఘం&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;పన్నీరై కురిసిపోయిందట,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;ఆమెను తడిపేసి మురిసిపోయిందట!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;****&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;ఇలా మేనంతా వెన్నెలతో, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;అలా కన్నుల్లో తారలతో,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;పన్నీటి జల్లుల్లో తడిసి&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;ఉన్నాటి ఆమె కౌగిట్లో...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;రసకేళి విన్యాసం లో-&lt;br /&gt;నాకు తెలీలేదు...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;ఆ వెన్నెల, తారలు, మేఘం &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;తమతో ఆకాశమంత శూన్యం కూడా తెచ్చాయని!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;2-10-07&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;యోగానంద్&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20233489-1319672228411350778?l=pravaaham.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/feeds/1319672228411350778/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20233489&amp;postID=1319672228411350778&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/1319672228411350778'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/1319672228411350778'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/2007/02/blog-post_11.html' title='ఆమె'/><author><name>Yoga</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18120906678183195899</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6p_3k5rThD4/Rd0ivMYAbRI/AAAAAAAAAAM/z7sTPp8vcdw/s320/Blog-Fall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20233489.post-3942004789801877955</id><published>2007-02-08T23:56:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-03-01T17:50:14.430-08:00</updated><title type='text'>పరుగు</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;ఎంతకని పారిపోతా&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;నంతరాత్మనుండి?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;అలలు తా పుట్టిన&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;సంద్రం నుండి లా!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;ఎందుకని పారిపోతున్నా&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;నందుకోలేదనుకుని?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;అలెంత ముందుకేగినా&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;సంద్రం కలిపేసుకోదా అలా!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;2-09-07&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;యోగానంద్&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PS:- సూచనలిచ్చిన భూషన్ గారికి, స్నేహితుడు సుబ్బు (మూలా) కి కృతఙతలతో...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20233489-3942004789801877955?l=pravaaham.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/feeds/3942004789801877955/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20233489&amp;postID=3942004789801877955&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/3942004789801877955'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/3942004789801877955'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/2007/02/blog-post_09.html' title='పరుగు'/><author><name>Yoga</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18120906678183195899</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6p_3k5rThD4/Rd0ivMYAbRI/AAAAAAAAAAM/z7sTPp8vcdw/s320/Blog-Fall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20233489.post-3667434102264064860</id><published>2007-02-08T22:46:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-02-17T19:53:45.071-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Haiku-2</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;హైకూ:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;పరిగెత్తీ పరిగెత్తీ&lt;br /&gt;అక్కడే అలసిపోయాడు&lt;br /&gt;ట్రెడ్ మిల్ మీద...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2-09-07&lt;br /&gt;యోగానంద్&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;స్నేహితుడు మూలా సుబ్రహ్మణ్యం సూచన మేరకు సవరించిన వెర్షన్ ఇదిగో:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;ఎంత పరిగెట్టినా&lt;br /&gt;అక్కడే...&lt;br /&gt;ట్రెడ్మిల్ మీద!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;సుబ్బూ, మరొక్కసారి ధన్యవాదాలు.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20233489-3667434102264064860?l=pravaaham.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/feeds/3667434102264064860/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20233489&amp;postID=3667434102264064860&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/3667434102264064860'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/3667434102264064860'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/2007/02/haikoo-2.html' title='Haiku-2'/><author><name>Yoga</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18120906678183195899</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6p_3k5rThD4/Rd0ivMYAbRI/AAAAAAAAAAM/z7sTPp8vcdw/s320/Blog-Fall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20233489.post-2263677324862403101</id><published>2007-02-07T21:23:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-02-17T19:54:09.699-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Haiku-1</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;ఇది నా మొట్టమొదటి హైకూ ప్రయోగం: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;కరెంటు తీగల మీద &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;వేచివున్న పక్షులు,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;అనంతమైన మైదానం లో కెగిరిపోడానికి...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;2-07-07&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;యోగానంద్&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;PS: ఈ హైకూ, రచయిత మూలా సుబ్రహ్మణ్యం గారు రాసిన అద్భుతమైన వ్యాసాన్ని చదివాకా ప్రేరితుడనై రాసాను. అంతే కాక, ఆయనిచ్చిన సూచనలకి కృతఙుణ్ణి. ఆయన రాసిన వ్యాసం ఇక్కడ ఉంది: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.telugupeople.com/discussion/MultiPageArticle.asp?id=47645&amp;page=1"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;http://www.telugupeople.com/discussion/MultiPageArticle.asp?id=47645&amp;amp;page=1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20233489-2263677324862403101?l=pravaaham.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/feeds/2263677324862403101/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20233489&amp;postID=2263677324862403101&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/2263677324862403101'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/2263677324862403101'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/2007/02/haikoo-experiment.html' title='Haiku-1'/><author><name>Yoga</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18120906678183195899</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6p_3k5rThD4/Rd0ivMYAbRI/AAAAAAAAAAM/z7sTPp8vcdw/s320/Blog-Fall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20233489.post-7102115747700227536</id><published>2007-02-07T13:29:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-02-11T00:32:40.243-08:00</updated><title type='text'>చూడు సోదరా చూడు!</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;చూడు సోదరా చూడు!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;చూడు సోదరా చూడు చూడు! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;నేటి భారత "సెక్యులారిస్టు"!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;మైనారిటికీ, మెజారిటీ కీ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;మధ్య బతికే ఆర్సనిస్టు!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;చూడు సోదరా చూడు చూడు!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;నేటి తెలుగు వాణ్ణి చూడు!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;తెలుగు పుట్టు కీ, ఆంగ్ల కట్టు కీ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;మధ్య నలిగే తెలుగు రాని వాణ్ణి చూడు!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;తెలుగు లేని వాణ్ణి చూడు!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;చూడు సోదారా చూడు చూడు!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;నేటి కమ్యూనిస్టు!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;నక్సల్ మాటకీ, హింస బాటకీ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;భక్తుడైన టెర్రరిస్టు!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;చూడు సోదరా చూడు చూడు!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;నేటి సమాజ "సేవకుడు"!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;ఎవార్డులకీ, రివార్డులకీ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;అమ్ముడుపోయిన పణ్యాత్ముడు!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;చూడు సోదరా చూడు చూడు!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;ఇవన్నీ రాసిన "కవి"ని చూడు!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;బాస కదిపీ, ప్రాస కలిపీ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;ఏదో "శ్రీశ్రీ" అనుకుంటాడు వాడు!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;2-07-07&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;యోగానంద్&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;PS: శ్రీశ్రీ రాసిన ఒక వ్యంగ్య పద్యం చదివి ఇవన్నీ తట్టాయి. శ్రీశ్రీ ది ఏది చదివినా నాకు ఇంకో కవిత తడుతుంది. ఆక్షణం లో నేను మరో శ్రీశ్రీ అనట్టు గా ఫీలైపోవడమూ జరుగుతూ ఉంటుంది. సరే ఇంతకీ ఆ శ్రీశ్రీ వ్యంగ్య పద్యం ఇదిగో: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"అరె యార్, ఇధర్ ఆవో దేఖో!&lt;br /&gt;ఆంధ్రుల దిన పత్రిక&lt;br /&gt;పెట్టుబడికీ కట్టుకథకీ&lt;br /&gt;పుట్టిన విష పుత్రిక"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;సుజనరంజని ఫిబ్రవరి సంపుటి లో అద్దేపల్లి గారు రాసిన వ్యాసం లో మూడో పేజీ లోంచి తీసుకున్నా:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.siliconandhra.org/nextgen/sujanaranjani.html"&gt;http://www.siliconandhra.org/nextgen/sujanaranjani.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20233489-7102115747700227536?l=pravaaham.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/feeds/7102115747700227536/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20233489&amp;postID=7102115747700227536&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/7102115747700227536'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/7102115747700227536'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/2007/02/blog-post.html' title='చూడు సోదరా చూడు!'/><author><name>Yoga</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18120906678183195899</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6p_3k5rThD4/Rd0ivMYAbRI/AAAAAAAAAAM/z7sTPp8vcdw/s320/Blog-Fall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20233489.post-1232148051237689540</id><published>2007-02-04T12:26:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-02-04T12:41:43.535-08:00</updated><title type='text'>chitimaMTa</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;చితిమంట&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;ఆ అబద్ధపు నవ్వుల్ని కన్నా&lt;br /&gt;అసంబద్ధ మాటల్నీ విన్నా...&lt;br /&gt;గోడల్లేని గదిలో&lt;br /&gt;ఊసల్లేని జైలు లో&lt;br /&gt;బందీ వై చిక్కినపుడు&lt;br /&gt;గమనిస్తూ...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;అనుగమిస్తూనే  ఉన్నా!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;బాడిగానికి నన్నిచ్చి&lt;br /&gt;ఊడిగానికి మేనిచ్చి&lt;br /&gt;నల్ల కళ్ళ జోడుతో&lt;br /&gt;కల్ల ముసుగు తొడుగుతో&lt;br /&gt;నిత్యం మారే నీ రూపం&lt;br /&gt;అద్దం లో చిక్కినపుడు&lt;br /&gt;గమనిస్తూ...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;అనుగమిస్తూనే ఉన్నా!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;నీ శోష జీవనం లో&lt;br /&gt;దిశ లేని పయనం లో&lt;br /&gt;భీష్మించిన ఉరుములకీ,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;గ్రీష్మించిన సుడిగాలికీ,&lt;br /&gt;నాఘోష మూగవోయె&lt;br /&gt;నా దశ ఆరిపోయె!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;***&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;తుది పయనం చేరువవగ&lt;br /&gt;నల్ల కళ్ళజోడు వదిలి&lt;br /&gt;కల్ల ముసుగు తొడుగు వదిలి&lt;br /&gt;నువ్వు నువ్వు గానున్నపుడు&lt;br /&gt;నన్ను గుర్తించావా!&lt;br /&gt;నీ మదిలోని దీపాన్ని&lt;br /&gt;చితిమంటతో వెలిగించావా!&lt;br /&gt;(నీ) చితిమంటతో వెలిగించావా!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2-05-07&lt;br /&gt;యోగానంద్&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20233489-1232148051237689540?l=pravaaham.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/feeds/1232148051237689540/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20233489&amp;postID=1232148051237689540&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/1232148051237689540'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/1232148051237689540'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/2007/02/chitimamta.html' title='chitimaMTa'/><author><name>Yoga</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18120906678183195899</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6p_3k5rThD4/Rd0ivMYAbRI/AAAAAAAAAAM/z7sTPp8vcdw/s320/Blog-Fall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20233489.post-1845448302926740061</id><published>2006-12-31T13:05:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-01-07T20:15:41.125-08:00</updated><title type='text'>కపిరాజు!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;కపిరాజు!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;కలల మకుటం ధరించా&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;కవిత కై నే తపించా&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;అంగారం రగిలినట్టు&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;ఆవేశం కలిగితే &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;మంజీరం కదలినట్టు &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;నా హృదయం మ్రోగితే&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;మందారం పూసినట్టు&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;మనసేమో విరిస్తే&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;రేసు బళ్ళ స్పీడు లో అక్షరాలు కదిలినపుడు&lt;br /&gt;కవితకై నే తపించా&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;కవిత్వం లోనే తరించా&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;కవిత్వం లో...నే తరించా&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;కవిరాజునని గర్వించా! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;***&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;ఇంతలోనే మురిసినంత లోనే &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;అయ్యింది నాకు వివాహం... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;నా ఉద్యోగంతో, సంసారం తో! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;ఆవేశమంతా సిగరెట్టు పొగ లా &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;కిక్కిస్తూనే చెప్పు కింద అణిగిపోతోంది!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;ఆలోచనంతా గొలుసు లేని బందీ లా &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;చిక్కిపోతూ క్యూబులోనే ఒణికిపోతోంది!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;చర్చలూ, సంవాదాలూ, దేశ సమస్యలూ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;ఒకప్పటి బాధలు! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;H1 లూ, GC లూ,ప్రొమోషన్ లూ, 401k లూ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;ఇకిప్పటి గాధలు!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;అటు ఇటూ కాని సందిగ్ధం లో&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;సూర్యుడి చుట్టూ తిరిగేస్తూ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;అందమైన అబద్ధపు గారడీలో &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;గెంతుతున్న కపిరాజునని గ్రహించా! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span 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పోదామా!&lt;br /&gt;ఎగిరీ పోదామా!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;చేదామా చేదామా!&lt;br /&gt;గగన విహారం చేదామా!&lt;br /&gt;హరులమై, విహారులమై&lt;br /&gt;ఆ గగనాన్నేల్దామా!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ఆడదామా ఆడదామా!&lt;br /&gt;ఒకాటాడదామా!&lt;br /&gt;ఆ దూది పింజల తో,&lt;br /&gt;ఆ తెల్లని పూ బంతి తో,&lt;br /&gt;ఆ ఎర్ర మందారం తో,&lt;br /&gt;ఈ నిండు తోటలో పూలన్నిటితో,&lt;br /&gt;ఆడుకుందామా!&lt;br /&gt;ఒకాటాడదామా!&lt;br /&gt;ఆడుకుంటూ పోదామా!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;పాడెదమా పాడెదమా!&lt;br /&gt;గగన బాటల మనసు మాటల&lt;br /&gt;తెలుగు పాటలు పాడెదమా!&lt;br /&gt;ఆహా!&lt;br /&gt;సోయగమా సోయగమా!&lt;br /&gt;ఈ విమాన యానం సోయగమా!&lt;br /&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;కందామా కందామా!&lt;br /&gt;ఉన్నత స్వప్నం కందామా!&lt;br /&gt;విందామా విందామా!&lt;br /&gt;మనసు మాట మనం విందామా!&lt;br /&gt;అందామా అందామా!&lt;br /&gt;పట్టు వీడమని అందామా!&lt;br /&gt;పొందేమా పొందేమా!&lt;br /&gt;విజయం మనం పొందేమా!&lt;br /&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;పోదామా పోదామా!&lt;br /&gt;ఝుమ్మంటూ సైయ్యంటూ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;దూసుకుపోదామా!&lt;br /&gt;ఎగిరీ పోదామా!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;ఎగసీ పోదామా!&lt;br /&gt;పోదామా పోదామా...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;12-29-05&lt;br /&gt;యోగానంద్&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;విమానమెక్కినపుడు ఈల వేసుకుంటూ పాడుకునే ఇమేజ్ బావుంటుంది ఈ కవిత కి :-)&lt;br /&gt;పైలట్ సీట్ లో కూర్చుంటే ఇంకాను! మొట్టమొదట విమానయానం చేసినపుడు ఉత్సాహం ఈ రీతి గానే ఉంటుందనొచ్చేమో :-)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20233489-113589618452784197?l=pravaaham.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/feeds/113589618452784197/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20233489&amp;postID=113589618452784197&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/113589618452784197'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/113589618452784197'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/2005/12/blog-post_113589618452784197.html' title='విమాన యానం!'/><author><name>Yoga</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18120906678183195899</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6p_3k5rThD4/Rd0ivMYAbRI/AAAAAAAAAAM/z7sTPp8vcdw/s320/Blog-Fall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20233489.post-113589358223189707</id><published>2005-12-29T13:56:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2005-12-29T14:04:36.263-08:00</updated><title type='text'>ఎందుకిలా!</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;ఎందుకిలా! ఎందుకిలా!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;ఏ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;వేవో ఘోషలు వినబడతాయి,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;ఎన్నెన్నో బాటలు కనబడతాయి!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;ఎందుకిలా! ఎందుకిలా!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;ఈ ఘోషల బాటలూ, బాటల ఘోషలూ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;మనసునిలా తడపెడతాయి!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;ఎందుకిలా! ఎందుకిలా!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;మరీచికలు మదిని మరీ కర్షిస్తాయి!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;కలరేపుచు వగచూపుచు, సంఘర్షణ రేగిస్తాయి!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;ఎందుకిలా! ఎందుకిలా!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;ఈ ఆకర్షణ సంఘర్షణలూ, సంఘర్షణ ఆకర్షణలూ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;మనసునిలా కృంగిస్తాయి!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;ఎందుకిలా! ఎందుకిలా!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;తీరలేని తీపికలలు ప్రతి నిత్యం చిగురిస్తాయి,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;కలలుగనే ఈ కవితలు అను నిత్యం వికసిస్తాయి!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;ఎందుకిలా! ఎందుకిలా!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;ఈ కలల కవితలూ, కవితల కలలూ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;మనసునిలా ఊరిస్తాయి!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;ఎందుకిలా! ఎందుకిలా!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;ఈ కాల చక్రాలు సుడిరేపుతు భయపెడతాయి!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;శమించకా, శాంతించకా మదిని కదలి కంపిస్తాయి!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;ఎందుకిలా! ఎందుకిలా!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;ఈ చక్రాల కంపనలూ, కంపనల చక్రాలూ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;జీవినిలా వణికిస్తాయి!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;ఎందుకిలా! ఎందుకిలా!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;లోకమాశతో ఎదురుచూస్తుంది&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;శాంతి లేక భ్రాంతి లోనే అనుక్షణం జీవిస్తుంది!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;ఎందుకిలా! ఎందుకిలా!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;ఈ ఆశల భ్రాంతుల లో, భ్రాంతుల ఆశలలో&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;కృంగి కృంగి విలపిస్తుంది...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;08-09-05&lt;br /&gt;యోగానంద్&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;ఇది సుజనరంజని (బహుసా) మార్చి ఇస్స్యూ లో ప్రచురింపడుతోంది...ఎందుకో ఈ కవిత నాకు చాలా నచ్చుతుంది. అందుకే ఇక్కడ కూడా పొస్ట్ చేస్తున్నందుకు క్షమించండి! తెలుసు నాకు ఒక వేళ మీరు నా లైవ్ జర్నల్ చదువుతూ ఉంటే కొంచెం విసుగ్గానే ఉంటుంది. కానీ, రాన్నున్న కవితలన్నీ ఎలాగో ఈ బ్లాగ్ లోనే పొస్ట్ చేస్తా...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20233489-113589358223189707?l=pravaaham.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/feeds/113589358223189707/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20233489&amp;postID=113589358223189707&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/113589358223189707'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/113589358223189707'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' 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కనబడే నిజానివా&lt;br /&gt;కాల్చేసే కనబడని నిప్పువా!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;మాట వినని మనసువా!&lt;br /&gt;అసలు...&lt;br /&gt;"నా మాటేనాడైనా విన్నావా?"&lt;br /&gt;అంటావా!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;12-21-05&lt;br /&gt;యోగానంద్&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ఈ కవిత కి పేరు ఏమి పెట్టాలో తెలీట్లేదు..ప్రస్తుతానికి మాయ అంటున్నా. కానీ ఎందుకో మాయ సరిపోలేదేమో అనిపిస్తుంది.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20233489-113589310226859495?l=pravaaham.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/feeds/113589310226859495/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20233489&amp;postID=113589310226859495&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' 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style="font-size:130%;"&gt;పాడె మీద కట్టెలు...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;నిలువలేవవి కాలాగ్ని భుగభుగలు&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;కలిసిపోతాయి శాశ్వతంగా!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;నిలుపు మాటలు మదిలోన&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;గెలుపు నీదిక ఇలలోన &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;నిలుస్తాయవి కలిసొచ్చిన కాలంతోను&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;కలిసెడతాయి చిరస్మరణీయంగా!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;12-27-05&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;యోగానంద్&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;వివరణ:అన్వేషి అనే ఒక తెలుగు బ్లాగర్ (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.anveshi.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;www.anveshi.blogspot.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;) తన కామెంట్స్ లో "గోడ మీద రాసుకున్నా", అంటేఈ పై వాక్యాలు తట్టాయి.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20233489-113572246580401368?l=pravaaham.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/feeds/113572246580401368/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20233489&amp;postID=113572246580401368&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/113572246580401368'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20233489/posts/default/113572246580401368'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/2005/12/blog-post_113572246580401368.html' title='మాటలు'/><author><name>Yoga</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18120906678183195899</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_6p_3k5rThD4/Rd0ivMYAbRI/AAAAAAAAAAM/z7sTPp8vcdw/s320/Blog-Fall.jpg'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20233489.post-113570764640805214</id><published>2005-12-27T10:09:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2005-12-27T19:02:50.046-08:00</updated><title type='text'>శ్రీశ్రీ  కవి కి!</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;పెను నిద్దర వదిలించి &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;ఆవేశం రగిలించి&lt;br /&gt;రక్తాన్ని మండించి&lt;br /&gt;కదన శంఖం పూరించి&lt;br /&gt;... కవీ నీ పాటల్!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;నవరసాలు చూర్ణించి&lt;br /&gt;రౌద్రం లో క్రాగించి&lt;br /&gt;స్వాదుదుగ్ధం పొంగించి &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;ఆ అమృతాంబుధి లో ముంచి&lt;br /&gt;... కవీ నీ పాటల్!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ఛాయా సప్త హయ పరుగులు&lt;br /&gt;శరత్కౌముది జడివానలు&lt;br /&gt;కుందకుందన తెలుగు ప్రాసలు&lt;br /&gt;అరుణ కరుణ మణిపూసలు&lt;br /&gt;... కవీ నీ పాటల్!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;మహాకవీ!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;నీ డెంద స్పందన, భావ ప్రకంపన &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;హృద్గర్జన, వచన కవన కైరవిణీ,&lt;br /&gt;కవన వచన హరిన్మణీ,&lt;br /&gt;నులివెచ్చని నీ కవనఘృణి లో&lt;br /&gt;తెలిమంచునై కరిగిపోతిని&lt;br /&gt;నన్ను నేనే మరచిపోతిని!&lt;br /&gt;నన్ను నేనే మరచిపోతిని!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;03-06-05&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;యోగానంద్&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;వివరణ:జనవరి 2nd శ్రీశ్రీ జయంతి సందర్భంగా...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ఈ కవిత ఆనాడు శ్రీశ్రీ స్విన్బర్న్ కవికి రాసిన శైలి లో ఉంటుంది.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span 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చిన్నపుడు ఆయన గురించి విన్నా సరే, మరీ అంత గొప్ప కవి అని నాకు ఎప్పుడూ తెలీలేదు! అమెరికా వచ్చి, ఈ వెబ్సైట్ లో చదివితే గానీ నాకు తెలీలేదు ఆయన గొప్పతనం. ఆ మధ్య ఒక సారి మా స్నేహితుడు ఒకతను (బాచి అంటూ ఉంటా), "మహాప్రస్థానం పుస్తకం చదువు నువ్వు, సీరియస్ మనిషివై అయితేనే చదవాలి" అంటే, అది ఒక నవల ఏమో అనుకున్నా, తరువాత అలా వెబ్ లోనూ, పైగా ఇంకో స్నేహితుడి ద్వారా ఇండియా నుంచి తెప్పించుకున్నాక తెల్సింది, మహాప్రస్థానం ఒక కవితల సంపుటి అని! అంతే అది చదవగానే ఏదొ తెలీని లోకాలకు వెళ్ళినట్టనిపించింది. ఒక్కసారిగా ఆ కవితల ప్రవాహం లో కొట్టుకుపోయా! నాకే తెలీలే. అంతే ఒక్క ఉదుటున నేను కూడా రాయడం ప్రారంభించా. కవిత్వం లో ఉన్న ఆనందం ఇంతా అంతా కాదు. అసలు తెలుగు పదాలతో ఆడుకుంటుంటే అదొక తియ్యటి అనుభూతి! తెలుగు వాడిగా పుట్టినందుకు గర్వం, ఆనందం కలిగాయి. అదొక తెలుగు ఉదయం, దర్శనం కలిగినట్లు అనిపించింది. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;ఆ కాలం శ్రీశ్రీ లాంటి వాళ్ళు ఇలా తెలుగు లో అందాన్ని వెలికి తీసారు కాబట్టే, నాకు ఇంత ఆబిమానం పుట్టుకొచ్చింది కనుక, అటువంటి మహాకవులకు, రచయితలకు, తెలుగు చదివితే, వ్రాస్తే వచ్చే ఆనందాన్ని సమర్పణ చేసుకుంటున్నా. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;ఇంకో ఆశ్చర్యకరమైన విషయం ఏమిటంటే, శ్రీశ్రీ ది కూడా మా ఊరే, విశాఖపట్నం. అయినా నాకు ఆయన గురించి తెలీకపోవడం వల్ల ఎంత బాధపడ్డానో నాకే తెలీదు. బహుసా ఆయనని నేను ఎక్కడో సప్త సముద్రాలవతల ఈ అమెరికా లో ఇరవై ఏడవ సంవత్సరం లో కనుగొనే యోగం ఉందేమో, అందుకే ఇన్నాళ్ళూ అసలు తెలుగుని కూడా పెద్దగా అభిమానించిన గుర్తు కూడా లేదు. ఇప్పుడు తెలుగంటే ఎందుకో విపరీతమైన అభిమానం పుట్టుకొస్తోంది.ఆ తెలుగు పదాలు, మాటలు, తెలుగు వాక్యాలు, అబ్బ! ఎంత ఆనందాన్నిస్తాయో వర్ణించనేలెము!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;సరే ఇక మళ్ళీ శ్రీశ్రీ విషయానికి వద్దాం. కవిత్వం ఆయన రాసిన లిరికల్ స్టైలే కాకుండా, నాకు ఆయన మీద ఆబిమానం ఎందుకంటే, ఒక వినూత్న విప్లవం తీసుకొచ్చారు. అసలు అప్పటిదాక ఉన్న శైలి ఎందులోనూ ఆయన రాయలేదు. అందరు గొప్ప కవులూ ఇలా మొదలెట్టిన వాళ్ళే. తరువాత శ్రీశ్రీ పడ్డ కష్టాలు ఇంతా అంతా కాదు, ఒకప్పుడు పిచ్చివాడని ప్రచారం కూడా చేసారు. అంతే కాక, అరెస్టు కూడా చేసారు. నేను కమ్మ్యూనిస్టుని కాకపోయినా, ఆయన పోరాడిన విధానం, నాకు ఎంతో ఉత్తేజాన్నిస్తుంది. ఎన్ని కష్టాలొచ్చినా ఎంత మంది ఎదురైనా, నిలిచి పోరాడిన వాడే హీరో. అందుకు నాకు శ్రీశ్రీ అంటే మరింత గౌరవం, అభిమానం. ఎవ్వరూ నడవని బాటలో ఉన్న కష్టాలకి, కంటక పోట్లకీ భయపడక ఎదురుతిరిగి ధైర్యంగా నిలిచిన వాళ్ళే చిరస్మరణీయంగా నిలుస్తారు. నాలో తెలుగు చైతన్యానికి కారణమైన ఆ మహాకవి శ్రీశ్రీ కి కృతఙతలతో ఈ నా తెలుగు బ్లాగు ప్రారంభం.&lt;br /&gt;యోగానంద్&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20233489-113570648556760993?l=pravaaham.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pravaaham.blogspot.com/feeds/113570648556760993/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' 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