A Hiccup

to live constantly
imprisoned in your mind’s cell
is same as freedom

-Kunal Goel

4 comments

1. aditi rawat says:

   I beg to disagree here ..
   to live constantly in you mind is trapping your self so that you cannot be heard and thus not harmed .. possibly so, I might be wrong too. But I do believe its more like running away from something or everything .. and I am not sure if thats freedom really.

   sure there your uninhibited, and uncontrolled .. but then its only you and no one else ..

   February 27th, 2008 at 08:12 pm

2. Kunal Goel says:

   _you cannot be heard and thus cannot be harmed_?
   think of the hardships of tapasavees on himalayas, they live inside their mind’s empire. alone. without clothing enough to warm them. without much food. they try to imprison themselves completely in their mind. they try to attain freedom. mukti. moksh.

   _uninhibited and uncontrolled, but then it’s only you and no one else._
   yes, it’s only you and no one else and nothing else. perhaps that’s the realization they are seeking.

   Swami Vivekananda, a believer in advaita philosophy, said:
   We all have to begin as dualists in the religion of love. God is to us a separate Being, and we feel ourselves to be separate beings also. Love then comes in the middle, and man begins to approach God, and God also comes nearer and nearer to man. Man takes up all the various relationships of life, as father, as mother, as son, as friend, as master, as lover, and projects them on his ideal of love, on his God. To him God exists as all these, and the last point of his progress is reached when he feels that he has become absolutely merged in the object of his worship. We all begin with love for ourselves, and the unfair claims of the little self make even love selfish. At last, however, comes the full blaze of light, in which this little self is seen to have become one with the Infinite. Man himself is transfigured in the presence of this Light of Love, and he realises at last the beautiful and inspiring truth that Love, the Lover, and the Beloved are One.

   more casually mario vargas llosa, in his wonderful book “in praise of the stepmother”, wrote:
   You are I and you, and you and I am you.

   Whatever be the case i was just speculating (hence the title “a hiccup” for this haiku) and i welcome your disagreement.

   March 5th, 2008 at 01:41 pm

3. A. N. Nanda says:

   Hi,

   Both the poem and the trailing discussions are interesting.

   I’d recommend reading of a short story by the Nobel laureate Herman Hesse under the caption “Within and Without”. It’s bit scary; nonetheless underscores the point alluded to in this post. Succinctly put, ‘We fear things and abhor it and the fear gets thickened inside. Then we start loving it and that’s the way we can get rid of that.’

   Thanks.

   Nanda
   http://ramblingnanda.blogspot.com
   http://remixoforchid.blogspot.com

   April 6th, 2008 at 10:29 pm

4. Kunal Goel says:

   Thanks, i will try to find and read it.

   April 7th, 2008 at 09:11 pm

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